New Report: 2016 a Pivotal Year for Women’s Reproductive Rights, with Many Battles Ahead Supreme Court victory in Whole Woman’s Health highlight of a year marked by change and challenges. State politicians introduce more than 500 bills restricting access to reproductive health care in 2016, enacting over 60 new restrictions. (PRESS RELEASE) Women across the […]
Politicians in statehouses across the country continued to attack women’s access to vital health care services in 2016, introducing more than 500 bills and enacting more than 60 new laws restricting access to reproductive health care this legislative session. 2016 State of the States: A Pivotal Time for Reproductive Rights provides a state-by-state summary of […]
Federal Court Temporarily Halts Unconstitutional Texas Abortion Restrictions After Legal Challenge from the Center (MEDIA ADVISORY) – A federal court judge today granted a request from the Center for Reproductive Rights to halt new regulations designed to cut off access to legal abortion and shame women. The temporary restraining order will prevent the regulations from […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Sues Texas to Stop Latest Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions New litigation seeks to protect Texas women from regulations designed to cut off access to legal abortion and shame women. Filing comes less than six months after Center for Reproductive Rights secures landmark U.S. Supreme Court victory against Texas. (PRESS RELEASE) Today the […]
(REVISED 09.05.2019) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed litigation against the state of Texas in 2016 challenging unconstitutional new regulations that mandate the burial or cremation of embryonic and fetal tissue that results from abortions, miscarriages, or ectopic pregnancy surgery – regardless of the woman’s personal wishes or beliefs. Plaintiff(s): Whole Woman’s Health, Brookside Women’s Medical Center PA d/b/a Brookside […]
(REVISED 8.25.2017) This case is a challenge to medically unnecessary Alaska restrictions, passed more than 40 years ago, that ban abortion in outpatient health centers after the first trimester of pregnancy. The restrictions force many women to travel out of state for procedures—if they can obtain them at all. This lawsuit was one of three simultaneous […]
Texas Finalizes Latest Unconstitutional Effort to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion (MEDIA ADVISORY) — Today the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) finalized unconstitutional new regulations that require the burial or cremation of embryonic and fetal tissue that results from abortions or miscarriages. This politically motivated new rule is designed to restrict a woman’s right […]
City of Baltimore and Center for Reproductive Rights Ask Appeals Court to Uphold Common Sense Regulation of CPCs (PRESS RELEASE) Today the City of Baltimore, with its co-counsel the Center for Reproductive Rights, asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to protect Baltimore residents by allowing the enforcement of a local consumer […]
Center Calls Out TX for Ignoring Widespread Concern Over Latest Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Center for Reproductive Rights today denounced the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for ignoring thousands of public comments expressing concern over the state’s latest politically motivated attempt to restrict a woman’s right to access […]