On April 27, 2020, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of abortion providers, denying Oklahoma’s request to stay a lower court’s ruling from the prior week that blocked the state’s ban on abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision means that abortion clinics can continue providing care as the case continues. The State was ordered […]
On April 22, 2020, the state of Texas abandoned its legal fight and agreed to allow abortion care to resume in full. In papers filed in the case, Texas clarified that its new executive order taking effect the same day—which exempts any health care facility that certifies to the health department that they will set […]
On May 1, 2020, the Center resolved a lawsuit filed in federal district court challenging Louisiana’s attempt to close down abortion clinics in the state under a Notice issued by the state health department directing medical providers to postpone medical care unless it falls under certain exceptions. The move came after the attorney general announced “that elective abortions are […]
Hoy el presidente Joe Biden emitió una orden ejecutiva que derogaba la Regla Global de Mordaza que había sido emitida de nuevo y ampliada durante la administración Trump; la derogación de la regla del Título X; retirar el copatrocinio y la firma de los Estados Unidos de la Declaración del Consenso de Ginebra; y el restablecimiento de […]
(New York) – Today, President Joe Biden issued an executive order repealing the Global Gag Rule that had been re-issued and greatly expanded during the Trump Administration; beginning the repeal of the Title X rule; withdrawing the U.S. co-sponsorship and signature from the Geneva Consensus Declaration; and restoring funding to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). […]
When state lawmakers push through laws restricting access to abortion, they often claim their aim is to protect the health and well-being of women, their pregnancies, and their children. But these claims rarely stand up, as shown in Evaluating Priorities, an online resource by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Ibis Reproductive Health. Its analysis […]
While the U.S. Supreme Court may have once been on the forefront of reproductive rights, it could be moving backwards, according to Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center of Reproductive Rights. In an op-ed for Marie Claire on the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Northup writes about Roe‘s fate. Read the op-ed […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights has called on the Biden administration to take quick and decisive action to reverse the Trump administration’s harmful policies and to move forward to advance human rights and reproductive rights in the U.S. and around the world. The inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as President and Kamala Harris as […]
Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: Today’s inauguration of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th president of the United States presents an urgent opportunity to put human needs and human rights at the center of a new U.S. domestic and foreign policy. It is also a barrier-breaking day, as Vice-President […]