In an interview with Kaitlan Collins on CNN, the Center’s President and CEO highlights the damaging implications of the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling recognizing embryos as children.
When the U.S. Supreme Court took away the constitutional right to abortion on June 24, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton put out an advisory stating that the state’s trigger abortion ban, which bans abortion from the moment of fertilization, would not take effect for at least two months. However, he noted that “abortion providers […]
In this landmark ruling, the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed abortion as a protected privacy right under the state’s constitution. The ruling, made January 5, 2023, permanently blocked the state’s ban on abortion at approximately six weeks of pregnancy. Read more about the ruling below or here. Case background: In February 2021, South Carolina’s S.B. […]
On March 21, 2023, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution protects the right to abortion in life-threatening situations, but declined to rule whether its constitution protects a broader right to abortion outside of those circumstances. Read more about the ruling below. On July 1, 2022, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its […]
In a preliminary ruling on January 23, the state court denied the Center’s request for a preliminary injunction to prohibit enforcement of the state’s amended abortion ban against physicians who in their good faith medical judgment, and in consultation with their patients, provide a health-preserving abortion. The court did not address the constitutional questions that are the focus […]
Mississippi’s abortion “trigger” ban —which makes abortion illegal in the state except to save the life of the pregnant person, or in cases of rape or incest that have been reported to law enforcement—has been in effect since June 24, 2022. In 2007, the Mississippi legislature passed an abortion “trigger” ban (Miss. Code Ann. § […]
On June 27, 2022, three days after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed a lawsuit in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans challenging Louisiana’s “trigger” laws, which were designed to ban abortion if Roe v. Wade were ever overturned. […]
Status: The Georgia Supreme Court ruled on October 24, 2023, to allow this abortion ban to remain in effect, reversing a lower court decision that struck down the law. The case will return to the trial court for ruling on the remaining claims in the case. In SisterSong v. State of Georgia, the Center for Reproductive Rights […]
Florida’s HB 5, which bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, has been in effect since July 1, 2022. The law subjects abortion providers to felony criminal penalties and disciplinary action for providing care to their patients. On August 10 and again on August 31, Florida health care providers sought review in the Florida Supreme […]
Filed in state court, the lawsuit seeks to clarify doctors’ obligations under multiple, conflicting abortion laws, which have forced providers to cease abortion services for fear of criminal prosecution. In 1973, after the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, the state’s Civil War-era total abortion ban (A.R.S. 13-3603) […]