59
CO/19(2007)(recommending
“thattheStatepartyensure
equalaccessto…reproductive
healthservices…”)[hereinafter
CERD,Concluding Observations:
India]. See also UnitedNations
EconomicandSocialCouncil,
The Right of Everyone to the
Enjoyment of the Highest
Attainable Standard of Physical
and Mental Health: Report of the
Special Rapporteur, Paul Hunt,
59
th
Sess.,para.25,UNDoc.E/
CN.4/2003/58(2003)(“[t]heright
tohealthisabroadconceptthat
canbebrokendownintomore
specicentitlementssuchasthe
rightsto…[m]aternal,childand
reproductivehealth.”).
216 See, e.g., CERD,Concluding
Observations: China,supra
note215,atpara.250;CERD,
Concluding Observations: India,
supranote215,atpara.24;
Concluding Observations of the
Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination: Uganda,
62
nd
Sess.,1562-1563
rd
mtg.,para.
18,U.N.Doc.CERD/C/62/CO/11
(2003).
217 Concluding Observations of the
Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination: United
States of America,58-59
th
Sess.,138-1492rdmtg.,para.
403,U.N.Doc.A/56/18(2001)
(recommendingthat“thenext
Statepartyreportcontainsocio-
economicdata,disaggregated
byrace,ethnicoriginand
gender…”).
218
megan tHomas & cara James,
Kaiser Family Foundation,
issue BrieF: tHe role oF HealtH
coverage For communities oF
color 2 (Nov.2009),http://www.
kff.org/healthreform/upload/8017.
pdf.
219 Nat’lNetworkofAbortionFunds,
supranote42.
220 See UniversalDeclarationof
HumanRights,adopted Dec.
10,1948,G.A.Res.217A(III),
art.3,U.N.Doc.A/810(1948);
ICCPR,supranote197,atarts.
6.1,9.1;ConventionontheRights
oftheChild,adopted Nov.20,
1989,G.A.Res.44/25,U.N.
GAOR,44
th
Sess.,Supp.No.49,
arts6.1,6.2U.N.Doc.A/44/49
(1989)(entered into force Sept.2,
1990)[hereinafterCRC];ICPD
Programme of Action,supra note
197,atparas.7.3,7.15,8.34;
Beijing Declaration and the
Platform for Action,atparas.96,
106,108.
221 See ICCPR,supranote197,at
art.17.1;CRC,supranote221,at
arts.16.1,16.2;ICPDProgramme
of Action,supranote197,atpara.
7.45;Beijing Declaration and the
Platform for Action,supranote
197,atparas.106,107.
222 See CEDAW,supranote197,at
art.16(1.e);ICPDProgramme
of Action,supranote197,at
principle8;Beijing Declaration
and the Platform for Action, supra
note197,atpara.223.
223 Concluding Observations of the
Committee on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights: Nepal, 26
th
Sess.,44-46
th
,55
th
mtg.,para.
32,note12,U.N.Doc.E/C.12/1/
Add.66(2001).
224 CommitteeontheEliminationof
DiscriminationagainstWomen,
General Comment 24, para.
14, (20
th
Sess.,1999) U.N.Doc.
A/54/38/Rev.1(1999).
225 RachelK.Jonesetal.,supranote
13,at24.
226 KaiserFam.Found., supra note
46.
227 18-37percentofwomenend
upcarryingtoterm,according
tostudies.SeeCtr,forDisease
Control,supranote5;Trussell
etal.,supranote5;Torresetal.,
supranote5;Blanketal.,supra
note5;Cooketal,supranote5;
Morgan&Parnell,supranote5;
Henshawetal.supra note5.
228 Nat’lNetworkofAbortionFunds,
supranote42,at19.
229 Id.
230 Theseventeenstatesthatuse
statefundstocoverabortions
are:Alaska,Arizona,California,
Connecticut,Hawaii,Idaho,
Illinois,Maryland,Massachusetts,
Minnesota,Montana,NewJersey,
NewMexico,NewYork,Oregon,
Vermont,Washington,andWest
Virginia.Thesestatesarereferred
toas“non-discriminationstates”
inthereport.Ofthesestates,only
four–WestVirginia,NewYork,
Hawaii,andMaryland–provide
suchcoveragevoluntarily;the
othersdosopursuanttocourt
orders.
guttmacHer inst., supra
note64.Inaddition,asofAugust
1,2010,theDistrictofColumbia
fundsallmedicallynecessary
abortions.
231 Twenty-sixstatesprohibittheuse
oftheirstateMedicaidfundsfor
abortionexceptincasesofrape,
incest,orlifeendangerment,in
linewiththerestrictionsimposed
bytheHydeAmendment.These
statesarereferredtoas“Hyde
states”inthereport.SouthDakota
onlyfundsabortionsincasesof
lifeendangerment,inviolationof
Hyde.Id.
232 IowaandMississippiprovide
stateMedicaidcoveragein
casesofrape,incest,andlife
endangerment,asrequiredby
Hyde,aswellasincasesoffetal
abnormality.Indiana,South
Carolina,UtahandWisconsingo
beyondtherequirementsofHyde
toprovideMedicaidcoverage
forabortionincaseswhere
continuingthepregnancywould
endangerthephysicalhealthof
thepregnantwoman.Id. These
sixstatesarereferredtoas“Hyde
plusstates”inthereport.
233 See, e.g., Nat’lNetworkof
AbortionFunds,TheHyde
Amendment:AViolationof
HumanRights,http://www.
nnaf.org/pdf/Hyde%20and%20
Human%20Rights%20-%20web.
pdf(lastvisitedJul.27,2010).
234 SeeNat’lNetworkofAbortion
Funds,supranote42.See also
Ctr.forDiseaseControl,supra
note5;Trusselletal.,supranote
5;Torresetal.,supranote5;
Blanketal.,supranote5;Cook
etal,supranote5;Morgan&