Emergency Contraception

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Judge Condemns Latest Fed Delays on EC

05.08.13 - Just weeks after issuing a landmark decision in the Center’s epic battle to make emergency contraception available to all women without a prescription, Judge Edward Korman was back behind the bench, once again lambasting the federal government for keeping this vital health care component beyond…

USA Today: 'Plan B' contraception ruling correct

04.09.13 -  As a mother, I can understand the visceral reaction of many parents to the idea of teens having direct access to emergency contraception. …

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Releases Report on Torture and Ill-Treatment in Health Care Settings

03.07.13 -  This week, Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, presented a groundbreaking…

U.S. Doctors Support Contraception

11.27.12 -  Two organizations that represent tens of thousands of doctors in separate medical fields have publicly expressed their support for expanded access to contraception. …

Contraception Confusion

09.20.12 -  Yet another clear argument for comprehensive science-based sex education for young people in this country…

Center for Reproductive Rights Resources and Materials on Refusal Laws

06.27.12 -  The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other reproductive right opponents regularly proclaim that respect for religious liberty requires "conscience provisions," also known as refusal clauses, to be built into our nation's laws…

Sandra Fluke: Life After the Infamous Limbaugh Attack

06.19.12 -  It's been four months since the national debate over women's access to copay-free birth control and religious freedom exploded. …

Time to Get Emergency Contraception Right

04.26.12 -  The rules on who can get emergency contraception without a prescription are confusing. They don’t need to be, and they shouldn’t be, not for a drug deemed safe by government experts.

A recent study, though, revealed that many pharmacies are denying the medication to women who meet the legal requirements and don’t need a prescription…

The Real-Life Consequences of a Personhood Measure

03.29.12 -  Here we go again.

Anti-choice extremists in Oklahoma are shooting for the pinnacle of reproductive rights rollbacks—a personhood amendment to the state constitution that would send reproductive rights back to the very dark days before Roe v. Wade made it legal for women to seek abortions from licensed reproductive health care providers—and not through life-threatening, illegal means…

In re Initiative Petition 395, State Question No. 761 (OK Personhood)

03.29.12 -  This is a pre-election challenge to a blatantly unconstitutional ballot initiative proposed in Oklahoma that would define a fertilized egg as a "person," thereby banning abortion and most forms of contraception, as well as interfering with fertility treatments and care provided to

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Contraceptive Access in the United States
The right to obtain and use contraceptives is part of the fundamental right to privacy guaranteed by the United States Constitution…

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