At 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 4, the Center for Reproductive Rights will argue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that Arizona’s abortion facility regulations deny equal protection to women who seek, and physicians who provide, abortions. Although a federal judge, in October 2002, struck down regulations that would have allowed […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights participated as an amicus (friend-of-the-court) in this case, in order to support the validity of New York’s Women’s Health and Wellness Act (WHWA), which requires employee health plans that cover prescription drugs to include coverage of FDA-approved contraceptive drugs and devices (such as oral contraceptives, diaphragms, Norplant, Depo Provera, cervical […]
On Monday, November 24 at 2:30 PM the Center for Reproductive Rights will ask a federal judge to strike down Virginia’s abortion procedures ban. The vaguely worded ban – which contains no exception to protect women’s health – would subject doctors to heavy fines and imprisonment for performing the safest second trimester abortion procedure, as […]
At 1:00 p.m. on Monday, November 17, the Center for Reproductive Rights will ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to affirm a lower court ruling that struck down an Oklahoma parental consent for abortion law. In June 2002, U.S. District Court Judge Claire V. Eagan found the law unconstitutional because it […]
Judge Issues Restraining Order Protecting Plaintiffs in Nebraska Today, a Nebraska federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the first-ever federal abortion ban from being enforced against the plaintiffs in the Nebraska lawsuit challenging the ban. Judge Richard G. Kopf’s order allows the plaintiffs and the people with whom they “work, teach, supervise, or […]
Statement of LeRoy Carhart, M.D. Three years ago, in a case in which I was the plaintiff, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down my home state of Nebraska’s law banning so-called “partial-birth abortion.” That decision reaffirmed our Constitution’s protection for women’s basic right to safeguard their health and reproductive choices. It was an important victory […]
Oral Arguments in Nebraska Scheduled for Wednesday Morning – Hours Before President Bush Signs the Unconstitutional Ban At 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, just hours before President Bush is scheduled to sign into law the first-ever federal abortion ban, the Center for Reproductive Rights will present oral arguments before a Nebraska federal judge in an effort […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Files Case on Behalf of Dr. LeRoy Carhart In a Nebraska federal court today, the Center for Reproductive Rights is challenging a federal ban on safe abortion procedures about to be signed into law by President Bush. The unconstitutional ban, which contains no health exception, prohibits doctors from using the safest […]
Lawsuits Filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU Acting to protect women’s health, the National Abortion Federation, Dr. LeRoy Carhart, and several other physicians joined legal challenges today seeking to block a dangerous and deceptive ban on safe abortion procedures. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in a federal court […]
Parental Consent Law Struck Down On October 13, an Alaska state judge struck down a law that required young women under the age of 17 to obtain the consent of a parent or a judge before having an abortion. Superior Court Judge Sen K. Tan ruled that the law violated teens’ rights to equal protection […]