Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest v. Streur: Preliminary Injunction
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(REVISED 03.21.2019) This lawsuit successfully challenged a regulation that would have prevented most low-income women in Alaska seeking medically necessary abortion services from receiving Medicaid coverage. In 2001, the Alaska Supreme Court held that withholding state Medicaid coverage for abortions while covering all other medically necessary care, including for pregnant women, violated the equal protection […]
Senate Bill Would Ensure Military Servicewomen, Dependents Equal Access to Contraceptive Coverage, Family Planning Sen. Shaheen and more than a dozen other Senators sponsor new legislation to extend comprehensive reproductive health-care coverage to non-active duty servicewomen, military dependents (PRESS RELEASE) New federal legislation was introduced today in the U.S. Senate that would guarantee all women […]
House Appropriations Committee Approves Abortion Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers In passing an amendment offered by Rep. Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Committee follows Senate’s lead and grants Peace Corps Volunteers abortion coverage in cases of life endangerment, rape, and incest (PRESS RELEASE) Today the House Committee on Appropriations voted to allow equal health care coverage […]
Playing Politics with Women’s Health: U.S. Senator Pits Women’s Health Protection Act Against Nationwide Abortion Ban (PRESS RELEASE) Today Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is expected to try to force a vote on his unconstitutional, nationwide abortion ban and cynically pit this measure against the Women’s Health Protection Act (S. 1696/H.R. 3471)—a bill that would prohibit politicians from imposing unconstitutional […]
In 2013, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed an amicus brief before the Minnesota Court of Appeals in Walker v. Jesson on behalf of Pro-Choice resources, a reproductive justice organization based in Minnesota that helps low-income women access abortion and reproductive healthcare. The case was brought by a conservative legal group in an attempt to […]
Minnesota Court of Appeals Protects Insurance Coverage for Low-Income Women Decision affirms over 20 years of state Supreme Court precedent (PRESS RELEASE) The Minnesota Court of Appeals today upheld a district court decision which dismissed a conservative legal group’s discriminatory efforts to end state insurance coverage of medically-necessary abortion services for low-income women in Minnesota. […]
Black Women & Bodily Autonomy https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/feature_essence_4_9_14.jpg The May edition of Essence magazine takes a look at what’s at stake for African-American women in the battle over reproductive rights. With extremist politicians passing an inordinate number of laws that target providers of abortion services, according to the magazine, Black women are among those paying the consequences. […]
Organizaciones De Derechos Humanos Condenan A Perú Por Cerrar Investigaciones Penales Contra Esterilzaciones Fozadas (COMUNICADO DE PRENSA) Luego del anuncio reciente del gobierno Peruano de archivar las investigaciones penales sobre esterilizaciones forzadas de cientos de miles de mujeres y hombres en los noventa, cinco organizaciones de derechos humanos se reunieron con funcionarios del gobierno y […]