By Margaret Hartmann “Though Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled the FDA’s recommendation to give everyone access to Plan B without a prescription, the battle to make the drug more widely available for women of all ages isn’t over. The Center For Reproductive Rights has reopened its 6-year-old New York lawsuit, and it […]
Center will reopen its 2005 lawsuit against FDA and add HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as a defendant in the case (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights announced today it will reopen its 2005 lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for imposing unnecessary age restrictions on emergency contraceptives, and seek immediate relief to […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Late today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied the Center for Reproductive Rights’ 2001 Citizen Petition to make levonorgestrel-based emergency contraception available over the counter to women of all ages on the grounds the agency needs additional data—which a federal court decided two years ago was not necessary to make a […]
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” That’s the first sentence of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations 63 years ago on December 10. And yet here we are, all these decades later, still fighting tooth and nail to ensure that those […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO Nancy Northup again accused the Obama Administration of playing politics with women’s health today following President Obama’s remarks suggesting that sales of emergency contraceptives should continue to be restricted for young women under the age of 17 due to their potentially “adverse effect.” “When it comes […]
(PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights strongly criticizes U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to intervene and block the Food and Drug Administration’s expected approval of emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step for over-the-counter sale to women of all ages. “Six years ago, we sued the Bush administration for rejecting […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Closing the door to massive infringements on women’s reproductive rights in Mississippi, voters in the state rejected today an extreme and dangerous “personhood” measure which would have amended the state’s constitution to define a fertilized egg as a legal person. The ballot initiative held the potential to not only ban abortion under all […]
By Laura MacCleery, Director of Government Relations, Center for Reproductive Rights Last week’s vote on the anti-abortion measure, H.R. 358, was a disappointing new low for the House. The heated debate occasioned dueling letters by Rep.’s Jan Schakowsky (D.-Ill.) and the bill’s author, Rep. Joseph Pitts (R.-Penn.), about whether the bill would allow institutions and […]
This litigation challenges a law that would impose severe restrictions on physicians’ ability to provide medical care to women seeking pregnancy terminations that serve no legitimate purpose and run afoul of all available medical evidence. Filing Date: 10/5/2011 State: Oklahoma Plaintiff(s): Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice and Nova Health Systems d/b/a Reproductive Services Center Attorney(s): […]
By Aram Schvey, policy counsel for foreign policy and human rights, Center for Reproductive Rights You don’t ask a vegetarian where to get a great prime rib, or a teetotaler for a single-malt scotch recommendation. You don’t ask a bald man where to get a stylish haircut. So why would federal policymakers defer to a […]