We Won’t Go Back Mark Ruffalo tell us a story about Roe v. Wade on its 41st anniversary—and talks about why the Women’s Health Protection Act must become law. It has been 41 years to the day since the U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, recognized the constitutional right of all […]
New York Magazine: Watch Mark Ruffalo Talk About Abortion Rights Kat Stoeffel, The Cut Mark Ruffalo has been a known abortion rights advocate for about a year. But now he’s on tape — just in time for the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade —explaining how hearing about his mother’s illegal abortion compelled him to […]
Talking Points Memo: Roe V. Wade Anniversary: Fights Over Abortion Are Often One-Sided Nancy Northup Politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives have already made it clear that—once again—one of their top priorities for the new year will be to continue their relentless assault on women’s health and rights. In one of its first acts […]
MSNBC: Victory in North Carolina https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Nancy-Melissa-Harris-Perry-Show-2014.jpg The Center for Reproductive Right’s Nancy Northup appeared on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show just hours after a federal judge permanently blocked an unconstitutional forced ultrasound law that did nothing to further the health and safety of women and served only to shame them out of their personal choice. She […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Calls 41st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade a “Vital Opportunity” to Reclaim Fundamental Right Center launches new series of PSAs with video starring actor and reproductive rights supporter Mark Ruffalo (PRESS RELEASE) On the 41th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the historic decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that recognized a […]
On September 29, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights challenged a newly enacted North Carolina law which prohibits a woman from getting an abortion until four hours after her physician performs an ultrasound, places the ultrasound images in her view, and provides her with a detailed explanation and description of the images, whether or not […]
(REVISED 6.2.2016) North Carolina passed a law in 2011 that prohibits a woman from obtaining an abortion unless her physician, during the course of an ultrasound procedure and while the woman is on an examination table, places the ultrasound images in her view, reads a state-mandated script about the images even if the woman does […]
Federal Court Permanently Strikes Down Coercive NC Ultrasound Law as Unconstitutional Judge finds state law forcing narrated ultrasounds on women seeking abortion violates constitutional rights of women and their health care providers (PRESS RELEASE) A federal court today permanently blocked a 2011 North Carolina law that would have forced women to undergo a narrated ultrasound […]
New Interactive Maps Detail Devastating Impact of Anti-Choice Legislation on Women Across the U.S. State of the States report focuses on four of the most extreme and harmful trends in state abortion restrictions passed in 2013, providing snapshot of coordinated legislative attacks on women’s health and rights (PRESS RELEASE) Politicians in nearly every single state […]
Supreme Court Considers MA Law Securing Women’s Safe Entrance into Reproductive Health Care Facilities The Center for Reproductive Rights leads broad coalition 16 of civil rights groups in filing brief in support of state law (PRESS RELEASE) The US Supreme Court will hear arguments today about a Massachusetts state law requiring a “buffer zone” around […]