By allowing states to ban abortion, Supreme Court has staked a position that runs afoul of the US’s treaty obligations.


Juliet S Sorensen is a Clinical Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, associated with its Center for International Human Rights.... Professor Sorensen’s work focuses on the human right to health and the impact of public corruption on human rights. She is a member of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights’ Health and Human Rights Initiative and a Clooney Foundation for Justice TrialWatch expert. Professor Sorensen has filed amicus curiae briefs related to reproductive rights and international human rights law before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the US Supreme Court.
By allowing states to ban abortion, Supreme Court has staked a position that runs afoul of the US’s treaty obligations.
