2021 EU-NGO Human Rights Forum to Feature Center Executives
2021 EU-NGO Human Rights Forum to feature executives from the Center for Reproductive Rights.
2021 EU-NGO Human Rights Forum to feature executives from the Center for Reproductive Rights.
At this webinar, global experts will initiatives ti improve access to SRHR during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This fact sheet by the Center showcases some of the positive measures States have implemented during the pandemic. The measures are grounded in States’ human rights obligations and demonstrate that sustaining many of them post-pandemic is both a human rights and public health imperative. Read the fact sheet here: Guaranteeing Access to Sexual and Reproductive […]
Center initiatives address pandemic’s impact on reproductive rights and access around the world.
Center reports and newsletters on COVID-19’s effect on sexual and reproductive health, rights and services and gender issues throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
The Center’s partner organizations filed lawsuits and motions on behalf of abortion providers in Alabama, Iowa and Ohio on March 30, 2020, to stop those states’ attempts to block access to essential abortion care. That same day, Alabama and Ohio issued temporary restraining orders allowing abortion care to proceed. Each state has used the COVID-19 […]
On April 24, 2020, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a federal district court’s injunction, granted a week earlier, allowing procedural abortion care to continue in Tennessee. The Circuit Court’s decision rejected the state’s request to stay the district court’s emergency order and reaffirmed that the state’s attempt to ban abortion services did not have any basis in […]
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 […]