REPROHEALTHLAW Updates – October 2025

October 14, 2025:

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AFRICAN COURT DECISIONS – LEGAL GROUNDS III resource has moved to Pretoria!
[African court decisions] Legal Grounds III: Reproductive and Sexual Rights in Sub-Saharan African Courts (the original PDF book, plus a web edition updated to 2025) are now online and searchable at Pretoria University Law Press. Congratulations to Prof. Ebenezer Durojaye and webmaster Lourika Pienaar of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria for this new Legal Grounds III searchable webpage.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Moral status and ethical implications of abortion
Special issue in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal BMC Medical Ethics. Submit by: January 2, 2026. Call for papers online. SUBMISSION LINK.

COURSE:
Graduate Course: “Advancing Women’s Rights in a Changing World” 29 March – April 2, 2026, in Dubrovnik, Croatia Course website. Details, with links to scholarships. Apply by Feb. 29, 2025.

DEVELOPMENTS

[Africa, Nigeria, ECOWAS] Dorothy Bebe v Federal Republic of Nigeria (ECW/CCJ/APP/48/23; ECW/CCJ/JUD/16/25) [2025] ECOWASCJ 25 (4 April 2025) (ECOWAS Community Court of Justice) “The State’s refusal to provide access to safe abortion in cases of rape constitutes a systemic failure to protect women . . . contrary to the fundamental principles of Article 18 of the African Charter.” ECOWAS judgment online. Case overview by Afya na Haki.

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, “Advisory Opinion OC-31/25 on the content and scope of the right to care and its interrelation with other rights” requested by the Republic of Argentina (adopted June 12, 2025) [The Court recognized the right to care as an autonomous human right, intrinsically linked to the right to health, and required States to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health services as part of ensuring personal and reproductive autonomy.] Advisory Opinion in Spanish. Official summary (11 pages) in Spanish.

SCHOLARSHIP

“Accessing Abortion Care in the Commonwealth Caribbean,” by Tenesha Myrie, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 171.1 (Oct 2025): 471-478 Free Access to PDF.

“Medical Conscientious Objection in Latin America 30 Years After Cairo,” by Agustina Ramón Michel and Dana Repka, Studies in Comparative International Development (30 August 2025) Open Access article.

“La despenalización del aborto desde la Suprema Corte de México,” por Leticia Bonifaz Alfonzo y Rosalba Mora Sierra traducido por Dana Repka, Revista Gioja Núm. 34 (2025): (junio – noviembre 2025): 319-341, a Spanish translation of “Decriminalization of Abortion by the Mexican Supreme Court,” by Leticia Bonifaz Alfonzo and Rosalba Mora Sierra, in International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics,165.1 (April 2024): 375–381. English PDF at Wiley Online. Spanish translation.

US-focused news, legal developments and resources are available from the Centre for Reproductive Rights, online here.

JOBS
Links to employers in the field of Reproductive and Sexual Health Law are online here.
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