Press Room

Welcome to the Press Room. For more background information on the Center's cases and reproductive rights-related issues, please send emails to press@reprorights.org.

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Kate Bernyk, Senior Press Officer
kbernyk@reprorights.org
(917) 968-5657

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Press Releases

Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas 12-Week Abortion Ban

05.17.13 - A federal judge ruled today that Arkansas’ extreme ban on abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy cannot take effect while the legal challenge brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arkansas is ongoing.
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Center for Reproductive Rights Takes Legal Action Against North Dakota Law Aimed at Closing State's Only Abortion Clinic

05.15.13 - (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights took legal action today on behalf of North Dakota’s only abortion clinic and its doctors to block a state law designed to shut down the Red River Women’s Clinic and effectively end safe and legal abortion in the state.
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Federal Judge Denies Government's Request to Delay Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception

05.10.13 - (PRESS RELEASE) Calling the Obama Administration’s appeal of a federal court order to make emergency contraception over-the-counter for all women “frivolous” and “taken…

In The Spotlight

CRR Opposes Mississippi’s Personhood Initiative: Measure Would Put Mississippi Women’s Health and Safety at Risk

10.20.11 - The Center for Reproductive Rights opposes Mississippi Proposed Amendment 26, which seeks to amend the Mississippi Constitution to define a "person" in the Bill of Rights to include "every human being from the moment of fertilization." The measure intends to make fertilized eggs,…

New House Leadership Attacks Women’s Health in Move to Repeal Health Law

01.05.11 - (PRESS RELEASE) The incoming leadership for the House of Representatives is calling on committees to submit measures that would replace provisions within the healthcare law…

European Court of Human Rights Rules that Ireland Abortion Ban Violates Human Rights, But Doesn't Go Far Enough

12.16.10 - (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Ireland's ban on abortion violated the human rights of a woman who was forced to travel out of the country to obtain an abortion to protect her life…

Lawsuit Filed Challenging Parental Notice Law

11.22.10 - (PRESS RELEASE) Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, Dr. Susan Lemagie and Dr. Jan Whitefield filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court in Anchorage today seeking to enjoin the parental notice law (PNL) which is scheduled to go into effect in December…

CRR Takes FDA Back to Court Over Morning-After Pill

11.16.10 - (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a motion for contempt against the Food and Drug Administration for failing to follow a court order regarding access to emergency contraception for women of all ages…