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Complainants’ Stories
More about the Texas women denied abortion care for life-threatening ectopic pregnancies.
More about the Texas women denied abortion care for life-threatening ectopic pregnancies.
Filings mark the latest Center work representing dozens of patients denied or delayed abortion care despite facing risks to their health, lives and future fertility.
08.12.24 (PRESS RELEASE) – In newly filed federal complaints, Two Texas women who faced life-threatening pregnancies are asking the federal government to step in after hospitals in the state refused them abortions. Both women had ectopic pregnancies, which are extremely dangerous and have no chance of survival—without timely treatment, patients can die. Filed by the […]
Deaths from fetal anomalies increased 23% after Texas’s six-week ban took effect in 2021.
7.26.24 (PRESS STATEMENT) – On Monday, July 29, an extreme six-week abortion ban is set to take effect in Iowa. This will mean that 18 states now ban abortion entirely or as early as six weeks—before many know they are pregnant. Many other states have banned abortion at various stages of pregnancy. Doctors who violate Iowa’s […]
Ciudad de Guatemala, 26 de julio de 2024 – (Comunicado de prensa). Esta semana, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) realizó su visita “in loco” a Guatemala para observar la situación de derechos humanos, en especial “la de grupos en situación de vulnerabilidad, desde los enfoques étnico racial y de género”. Una semana antes, […]
In Center case defending reproductive autonomy, Court temporarily blocks law preventing traditional midwives from providing pregnancy and birth care in their communities.
Law designed to protect minors has created a chilling effect on adolescent access to safe abortion services.