Exclusive: letter from human rights groups says overturning of the constitutional right violates US’s obligations as a UN member state

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/destruction-us-abortion-laws-human-rights-violation-un

Poppy Noor

@PoppyNoorThu 2 Mar 2023 00.01 EST

Top human rights organizations are calling on theUnited Nationsto intervene over the destruction of abortion rights in the US.

In alettershared in advance with the Guardian and sent on Thursday by nearly 200 organizations and experts, the authors detail how, since the overturning of the federal constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, some 22 million women and girls of reproductive age live in states where abortion access is now either banned or inaccessible.

Among the signatories are the Global Justice Center, Pregnancy Justice, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. They are joined by a broader coalition of groups and individual advocates for human rights and racial and economic justice.

Abortion restrictions, the signatories write, deny…