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 pregnant women. Filing Date: 3/29/12 State: Oklahoma Plaintiff(s): Brittany Mays Barber, Larry Burns, […]
(PRESS RELEASE) The Honduras Supreme Court has upheld the country’s absolute ban on emergency contraception, which would criminalize the sale, distribution, and use of the “morning-after pill” — imposing punishment for offenders equal to that of obtaining or performing an abortion, which in Honduras is completely restricted.“By banning and criminalizing emergency contraception, Honduras is telling […]
Center requests addition of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as defendant, seeks immediate and unrestricted OTC status (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 […]
On January 20, the Obama Administration demonstrated that it wouldn’t allow religiously affiliated organizations to dodge their responsibility for the reproductive health of the women working for them. Those organizations—not churches, synagogues, and mosques, but universities, hospitals, and some charities associated with religious institutions—will have to comply with the Affordable Care Act and offer insurance […]
By Jake Blumgart “Across Eastern and Central Europe, as unemployment surges and the European Union dithers, nationalist conservative and far right parties are on the march. Emboldened right-wing leaders are resurrecting debates around abortion and other reproductive services, even in countries like Hungary, one of the first European countries to explicitly legalize abortion. ‘There is […]