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Groundbreaking Victory in Oklahoma: Medication Abortion Protected

Groundbreaking Victory in Oklahoma: Medication Abortion Protected

Today, a court delivered another stinging rebuke to the Oklahoma legislature, striking down the government’s latest attempt to choke off women’s access to reproductive health services—an arbitrary and severe restriction on medication abortion.

Judge Donald Worthington ruled that the law was “so completely at odds” with standard medical practice that it “can serve no purpose other than to prevent women from obtaining abortions and to punish and discriminate against those women who do.”…

A Repugnant Attack—Defeated

A Repugnant Attack—Defeated

With a unanimous decision yesterday by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the Center for Reproductive Rights has won our legal challenge to strike down a ballot initiative that would have given every fertilized egg the full legal rights of a person. 

We challenged this initiative as soon as it went on the ballot—arguing that this frontal assault on reproductive rights clearly violated the U.S. Constitution. The Oklahoma court agreed…

The Abortion Pill: Under Threat

The Abortion Pill: Under Threat

The war against women is overrun with hostile combatants and legislative weapons of every form, and certain anti-choice measures naturally grab more spotlight than others.

An increasing majority of the public has voiced their anger and frustration with legislators pushing invasive ultrasound laws and special interest groups lobbying to impose their religious beliefs and choke off access to contraception…

Our Work in Focus

Every year, tens of thousands of women are lured to crisis pregnancy centers in the U.S. …

The right to life is a fundamental human right, central to the enjoyment of all other human rights…

Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose hundreds of measures intended to erode women’s rights to abortion and reproductive health care. …

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”…

A woman living with HIV in Chile is forcibly sterilized while unconscious and undergoing a cesarean delivery…

Human Rights defenders are the activists, including journalists, lawyers, judges, and healthcare providers, whose work allows others to exercise their human rights.

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