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 […]
Admitting that Abortion is Safe https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MaryBalch_thumb_7-11-FeaturedStory.jpg For years, extremist activists and politicians have offered up false science and feigned concern for women’s health as part of their strategy to limit abortion access. The safety of abortion procedures is disingenuous though—abortion is one of modern medicine’s safest procedures with medical experts confirming that it has a […]
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. […]
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Challenges to Birth Control Benefits in Affordable Care Act Two for-profit companies, including arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, attempting to impose religious beliefs on female employees by refusing health insurance benefits for contraception (PRESS RELEASE) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in two for-profit companies’ lawsuits […]