Nancy Northup on MSNBC: Stop the Deception https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NN_MelissaPerry.jpg Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, appeared on a segment of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry show to debate the continued public funding of “crisis pregnancy centers”—phony clinics that counsel women not to have abortions, often using misleading information—while Planned Parenthood simultaneously faces massive defunding efforts. […]
Burns v. Cline: Oklahoma Supreme Court Order Granting Stay
Mother of Ecuadorian girl raped by vice principal testifies in Washington, DC The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing in the case of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín, an Ecuadorian teenager who was sexually abused repeatedly by her school’s vice-principal for two years. Petita Albarracín, Paola’s mother, told the Commission about her daughter’s […]
Texas Policy Harms Undocumented Women https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TxsDeport.png Undocumented women in Texas often do not seek needed health care for fear of being stopped at checkpoints, while others are refused care due to their undocumented status. But in an op-ed in the Houston Chron, Center vice president of U.S. policy and advocacy Angela Hooton and National Latina […]
(Updated 03.26.24) On March 12, 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed this lawsuit, finding the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the law because the clinic is no longer a registered business in Oklahoma. The clinic was forced to stop performing abortions in May 2022, when the Oklahoma Supreme Court allowed a total abortion ban modeled on […]
The following article was written by Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, as part of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law’s publication titled “Legal Change: Lessons from America’s Social Movements,” in celebration of the Brennan Center’s 20th Anniversary. https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Northup_Voting_Rights_Reproductive_Brennan_Center.pdf
Pressure Mounts for Kenya to Stop Quack “Doctors” https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/KenyaDoctorThumb.png One of Mugo Wairimu’s former patients recalls visiting his clinic for a pelvic exam. According to the Daily Beast, he gave her pills that knocked her unconscious and when she woke up she had no underwear on. The patient sought help after the assault at a […]
Burns v. Cline: Oklahoma Supreme Court Application to Assume Original Jurisdiction and Petition for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief
Burns v. Cline: Oklahoma Supreme Court Brief in Support of Application to Assume Original Jurisdiction and Petition for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief
(REVISED 6.13.2017) This lawsuit challenged Oklahoma law S.B. 642, an omnibus measure that imposed various unnecessary restrictions and requirements on abortion providers in blatant violation of the Oklahoma Constitution. S.B. 642 was a multi-subject measure that—among other provisions—permitted warrantless searches of abortion providers. S.B. 642 also included language that could have been interpreted to bring felony charges for any violation of the […]