01.20.2022 (PRESS RELEASE) – The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request today from abortion providers and funds to allow one of the challenges against S.B. 8 (Texas’ ban on abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy) to finally proceed in district court after months of delay since the law took effect on September 1. Earlier […]
On January 20, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Center’s petition for a writ of mandamus, which was filed on January 3 and requested the Court to order the Fifth Circuit to remand the case to the district court. Justice Sotomayor, who wrote the dissent and was joined by Justices Breyer and Kagan, said, “This […]
Ruling in Sayed v. Sindh marks major progress in improving maternal health, especially for women living on low incomes.
PRESS STATEMENT 01.20.2022 Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: This Saturday, January 22, marks 49 years since the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade—the right to make a person’s most basic decisions about family and parenthood, free of government interference. Since […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights is wholly committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization. As a Board we embrace the Center’s DEI commitments and its plans for more fully realizing them in the Center’s programmatic work and its workplace. We seek to embody these principles and to implement them in our boardroom. We believe that […]
The ruling in Syed & Others v. Sindh by the Sindh High Court ordered Pakistan’s Sindh government to increase access to obstetric fistula repair services. The case was conceptualized by the Center’s South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative (SARJAI). Read the fact sheet:
This Bloomberg Law piece reported on the Supreme Court’s latest ruling refusing to take action on Texas’s unconstitutional abortion ban, quoting the Center’s Nancy Northup, who said the Court “is allowing the state of Texas to deprive people of a constitutional right.” Read the article: “Supreme Court Deals Clinics New Rebuff on Texas Abortion Law,” […]
Several Latin American countries, including Mexico, Chile, and Argentina, have recently taken steps to expand abortion access. In Colombia, the Center and its Colombian-based partners have brought a lawsuit to decriminalize abortion. The question currently rests before a panel of judges. Reuters quoted Catalina Martinez Coral, the Center’s Regional Director of Latin America and the […]
Ebony quoted Breana Lipscomb, the Center’s Senior Advisor for Maternal Health and Rights, on the harms Black women would face if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. If Roe falls, Lipscomb explains, “Pregnant Black women who have abortions will face fewer safe options and higher risks of criminalization and punishment. It will be another […]
A fourth woman has been released from prison in El Salvador after being unjustly prosecuted under the country’s strict abortion law.
