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Birth Control Benefit for Women Preserved, CRR Calls for END TO Attacks on Women’s Health

01.20.12 - (PRESS RELEASE) The Obama Administration has committed to preserve the no-copay birth control benefit for all women under the Affordable Care Act, according to an announcement today that employees at religiously-affiliated institutions will be able to access the coverage without co-pay…

MSNBC: Texas begins enforcing strict anti-abortion sonogram law

02.09.12 - "Fewer abortions? Better-informed patients? Insulted women? The impact of a controversial new Texas law that requires women to have a sonogram – and listen to a description of the fetus as well as its heartbeat – at least 24 hours before they can get an abortion is far from clear.
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Center for Reproductive Rights Reopens Lawsuit Against FDA Restrictions on Emergency Contraception

02.08.12 - (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…

Hands Tied by Appeals Court, Texas District Court Decides it Cannot Permanently Block State Ultrasound Law

02.06.12 - (PRESS RELEASE) Following a decision by a three-judge panel on the U.S…

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

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

Austin Chronicle: Ultrasound Reimposed by Appeals Court

01.26.12 - "Last week's 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion – overturning an injunction that had barred final implementation of Texas' new ultrasound-before-abortion law – may 'barely have touched on the issues' raised in a lawsuit before the district court last year…

Houston Chronicle: Group Files Appeal against Sonogram Requirement

01.25.12 - "The Center for Reproductive Rights is asking for a rehearing of its argument that a law requiring a sonogram before an abortion is unconstitutional…

Center for Reproductive Rights Petitions Fifth Circuit Court for New Hearing on Intrusive Texas Ultrasound Law

01.25.12 - (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a petition last night for a new hearing before the full U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its case against key provisions of a Texas law requiring doctors who perform abortions to convey images and sounds of the embryo or fetus to women who are captive during the ultrasound procedure…

Congressman from Arizona Attacks Reproductive Rights of Women in D.C.

01.24.12 - (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights is urging members of the House of Representatives to reject the latest effort to restrict access to safe, legal reproductive health services for women in the District of Columbia after last night’s announcement that Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)…