Plaintiff in Center’s Case Against Texas to Testify at the U.S. Senate April 26
Amanda Zurawski to testify at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “The Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post-Dobbs America.” Watch the hearing live.
Amanda Zurawski to testify at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “The Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post-Dobbs America.” Watch the hearing live.
Nearly 50 organizations seek to expand access to essential medications for miscarriage care and remove legal risks to providers and patients.
The ban “exposes the pretext that reversing Roe v. Wade was about letting each state decide its own laws.” –Nancy Northup
State legislators across 38 states encourage congressional leadership to include permanent and mandatory postpartum Medicaid coverage for one year in the Build Back Better Act.
As the U.S. faces a maternal health crisis, with Black women three times more likely to die than white women from pregnancy complications, the Center for Reproductive Rights has partnered to sponsor Black Maternal Health Week, April 11-17—a seven-day series aimed at raising awareness, inspiring activism, and strengthening organizing for Black maternal health.
Today, the Trump administration continued chipping away at civil rights protections by proposing a rule that endorses discrimination in health care settings—putting patients’ lives and health at risk. This rule, published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), rolls back the Affordable Care Act’s Health Care Rights Law, the first broad prohibition of […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/uspa-190125-sots-featurebanner3.jpg Protect, Defend, Extend: State of the States 2018 In 2018, state legislatures continued their unrelenting attack on abortion access—our report examines those tactics, as well as how advocates are fighting back https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Thumb-SotS-Cover-01.jpg Opponents of abortion rights in state legislatures across the country continued to obstruct abortion access in 2018, introducing nearly 200 bills and […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed suit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for refusing to release records related to a new division within the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dedicated exclusively to enforcing refusal of care laws. HHS has refused to release information […]
In a Blow to Women’s Health and Rights in Louisiana, Fifth Circuit Completely Disregards U.S. Supreme Court Precedent (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a Louisiana law that will shutter abortion clinics throughout the state by requiring physicians performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. […]
Defenders of sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America and the Caribbean reject Bill No. 5272, also known as the “Law for the Protection of Life and Family” that seeks to restrict the right to abortion in Guatemala and discriminate against different types of families. More than 60 organizations from across the Americas have signed onto the statement rejecting the significant increase in […]