Extremist judges will not stop endangering the lives of pregnant people or people who may become pregnant—overturning Roe v. Wade, attacking medication abortion, threatening the future of IVF, and this week at SCOTUS, emergency abortion care.
Our lawyers are waging strategic fights that make clear what is at stake for people who can become pregnant and seek to bolster our fundamental rights to control our lives, futures, and destinies.
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Victory!: On July 31, 2023, the parties reached a historic settlement in a confidential agreement.
Update: On February 24, 2023, NWLC joined the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in a renewed amicus brief submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. After our original brief was filed, the district court granted the plaintiffs leave to amend their complaint, and the defendants filed a second motion to dismiss. Our brief again opposes dismissing this important case.
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On February 22, 2022, the National Women’s Law Center joined the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Lacks v. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Our brief supports the Lacks family’s claim of unjust enrichment against Thermo Fisher Scientific, a multi-billion-dollar biotechnology corporation that continues to profit from sales of the “HeLa” cells that were non-consensually and non-therapeutically harvested by white doctors at John Hopkins Hospital from Mrs. Henrietta Lacks’s cervix in the 1950’s. Our brief places Thermo Fisher Scientific’s actions within the disturbing history of systemic medical exploitation of poor, Black, and Indigenous people and argues that the discriminatory “norms” of the past must not insulate Thermo Fisher Scientific’s ongoing wrongful conduct from liability.
