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• Forced and Coerced Cesarean Sections in the United States. Several Birth Rights Bar Association members contributed information and/or quotes for this article that was written by one of our Board members.
• Pushed and Consented: Rights in Childbirth? Purchase printed booklet or make an optional donation and view flipbook online. 
• Report to U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women: Mistreatment and Violence Against Women During Reproductive Health Care With a Focus on Childbirth in the USA, submitted by BRBA, If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at CUNY Law School.
• Report of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women: Its Causes and Consequences on a Human Rights-Based Approach to Mistreatment and Violence Against Women in Reproductive Health Services with a Focus on Childbirth and Obstetric Violence.

• Together these briefs articulate many of the key legal arguments necessary for birth justice.
• • Rinat Dray v. Staten Island University Hospital et. al., Supreme Court Appellate Division, 2nd Department. Filed by BRBA with Birth Place Lab, November 2020. 
  • • These organizations also filed amicus briefs in support of Rinat Dray's 2020 appeal: National Advocates for Pregnant Women, VBAC Facts and Evidence Based Birth,  New York Civil Liberties Union, and If/When/How with several other reproductive justice and human rights organizations.
    • This brief was filed in the early stages of Ms. Dray's case. Rinat Dray v. Staten Island University Hospital, et. al., Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Kings. Filed December 2014.
    • In September 2023, the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York filed an amicus brief in support of Ms. Dray's human and civil rights claims. 
  • Kolodji v. Board of Registered Nursing, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Francisco.
  • Webster v. Delaware Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline, Supreme Court in the State of Delaware.
  • Mitchell v. Brooks, Supreme Court of Virginia.
  • Washington v. McMillen, Supreme Court of the State of Washington (and Motion for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief).