The Center in the U.S. Courts

Since 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights has played a key role in shaping the course of reproductive rights law in the United States. We use high-impact litigation to try to protect the right and ability of all women to make their own reproductive choices, including choices about whether and when to bear children, and whether to continue a pregnancy. Our court cases often focus on the particular obstacles to reproductive health care access faced by young women, low-income women, and women from marginalized communities.

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The Center's litigation work in the United States seeks to broadly promote reproductive rights. Our goals include:

• Securing recognition that reproductive freedom is both a fundamental constitutional right and a human right that the government is obligated to respect, protect and fulfill;
• Ensuring that all women have access to safe and affordable contraception;
• Protecting women’s access to safe, legal and affordable abortion services;
• Ensuring that adolescents have access to reproductive health services; that adolescents’ confidentiality is protected in their pursuit of those services; and that adolescents have access to age-appropriate, comprehensive sexuality education;
• Defending abortion providers against unreasonable government actions;