Contraception

Legal Restrictions

In The Spotlight

Center for Reproductive Rights Reopens Lawsuit Against FDA Restrictions on Emergency Contraception

(PRESS RELEASE) Seeking immediate relief that would allow emergency contraception over-the-counter access for women of all ages, today the Center for Reproductive Rights asked a federal court to reopen the Center’s 2005 lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for imposing…

Toward Freedom: Eastern Europe’s Conservative Crackdown on Reproductive Freedom

"Across Eastern and Central Europe, as unemployment surges and the European Union dithers, nationalist conservative and far right parties are on the march…

2011: A Look Back

Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose hundreds of measures intended to erode women’s rights to abortion and reproductive health care. Some of these aim to restrict access by imposing mandatory waiting periods, ideologically biased counseling provisions, and other burdensome, unnecessary requirements. Other proposals are far more extreme, including those designed to ban abortion or prohibit women from accessing contraception.