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Sex Discrimination Continues in Florida After Court Refuses to Overturn Ban on Medicaid Funded Abortions

Low-Income Women’s Health Remains at Risk Continuing to put women's health at risk, Florida's Third District Court of Appeals issued an opinion today refusing to overturn Florida's ban on Medicaid funded abortions. The Center for [...]

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Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska Lawsuit seeks to immediately block new regulation that severely restricts abortion coverage through the state Medicaid program [...]

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NYT Blasts Court Rulings

NYT Blasts Court Rulings Harsh criticism from The New York Times of some recent court decisions in reproductive health cases this week. The editorial page took three judges to task for deciding cases that have [...]

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Repro Rights Are Human Rights

Six months pregnant and feeling unwell, a poor woman goes to a state-run clinic in Rio de Janeiro for help—and is turned away. A week later, she is dead. Halfway around the world, in Hungary, [...]

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New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion

New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion Regulations would severely limit—if not outright ban—access to medication abortion, force doctors to ignore best medical practices (PRESS RELEASE) Women’s health care providers filed a federal [...]

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Abandoned By a Nation

The Center filed a new case against Ireland to stop its health care system from turning its back on women in desperate need of help. It’s nearly impossible to go through this life and not [...]

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2012 At the Midpoint: The Assault Continues

2012 At the Midpoint: The Assault Continues There's no question that 2011 was a truly seismic year for reproductive rights in the U.S. More than 60 laws damaging women's access to reproductive health care passed [...]

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CRR Celebrates 20 Years

CRR Celebrates 20 Years Twenty years ago on June 15, 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights opened its doors.  A small team of lawyers had a vision to start an organization that coalesced around the [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

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2012: U.S. in Review

2012: U.S. in Review Put 2012 against any year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, in 1973, and you would be hard pressed to find a period that offered as many highs [...]

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Two More Texas Health Centers Forced to Close in Wake of Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Passed Last Summer

Two More Texas Health Centers Forced to Close in Wake of Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Passed Last Summer Women in East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley face dire health care crisis (PRESS RELEASE) Whole Woman’s [...]

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State Judge Blocks ND Law Designed to Close Only Abortion Clinic in the State

State Judge Blocks ND Law Designed to Close Only Abortion Clinic in the State (PRESS RELEASE) A state judge ruled today that North Dakota state officials cannot enforce a law designed to shut down the [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.