A woman’s right to bodily autonomy outweighs the rights of an unborn child

Universal entitlements of all persons regardless of nationality, status, or circumstance, grounded in international law. Includes civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. Promoted and monitored through treaty bodies, courts, and advocacy organizations operating at national and international levels.

Individual freedoms that constrain what the state may do, including speech, assembly, religion, privacy and protection from arbitrary search or detention. Distinct from civil rights, which concern equal treatment, these limit government power rather than extend entitlement, and are usually enforced through the courts.

Law and political conflict over abortion access, contraception, fertility treatment and the medical care surrounding pregnancy in the United States. Returned largely to the states by the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs ruling, and fought since through ballot measures, legislatures and courts.

The ethical, medical, legal and public policy debate about ending a pregnancy, including access to care, fetal moral status, bodily autonomy and government restrictions.