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South Carolina: A Sign of Harmful Laws to Come?
South Carolina: A Sign of Harmful Laws to Come? Lawmakers in South Carolina have pre-filed an assortment of new legislation aimed at making it harder for women to access legal abortion care and birth control. [...]
Post-Roe State Abortion Ban Litigation
SisterSong v. State of Georgia (Georgia)
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 [...]
Freedom Denied
After 10 years of wrongful imprisonment after she had a stillbirth, our client Teodora was again denied her freedom. [UPDATE] Following 11 years of wrongful imprisonment after suffering an obstetric emergency, the Salvadoran Supreme Court [...]
Post-Roe State Abortion Ban Litigation
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. State of South Carolina, et al. (South Carolina)
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 [...]
NYT Blasts Court Rulings
NYT Blasts Court Rulings Harsh criticism from The New York Times of some recent court decisions in reproductive health cases this week. The editorial page took three judges to task for deciding cases that have [...]
The Center’s Nancy Northup Discusses “Patently Absurd” Alabama IVF Ruling
CNN
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.
Repro Rights Are Human Rights
Six months pregnant and feeling unwell, a poor woman goes to a state-run clinic in Rio de Janeiro for help—and is turned away. A week later, she is dead. Halfway around the world, in Hungary, [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Launches Legal Challenge to Keep Abortion and Contraception Ban Off Oklahoma Ballot
Center for Reproductive Rights Launches Legal Challenge to Keep Abortion and Contraception Ban Off Oklahoma Ballot Ballot initiative also threatens fertility treatments and medical care for pregnant women (PRESS RELEASE) Oklahoma’s proposed ballot initiative to [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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Philippine Supreme Court Upholds Historic Reproductive Health Law
For recent updates on the Center's Work in the Philippines, click here. 04.08.14 (PRESS RELEASE) After more than a year deliberating the constitutionality of the country’s historic Reproductive Health Law passed in 2012, the Philippine [...]
Post-Roe State Abortion Ban Litigation
Access Independent Health Services, Inc., d/b/a Red River Women’s Clinic v. Drew H. Wrigley (North Dakota)
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 [...]
Over 700,000 Petitioners Demand Honduran Congress Reject Law Criminalizing Emergency Contraception
Advocates, lawyers, and citizens gathered today in protest on steps of Honduran Congress (PRESS RELEASE) Over 700,000 people have signed a petition demanding the Honduran Congress reject the latest attempt to criminalize the use or [...]
Centuries-Old Abortion Ban Ruled Enforceable in Arizona
Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that a near-total abortion ban passed in 1864 can take effect
Honduras Supreme Court Upholds Absolute Ban on Emergency Contraception, Opens Door to Criminalize Women and Medical Professionals
(PRESS RELEASE) The Honduras Supreme Court has upheld the country’s absolute ban on emergency contraception, which would criminalize the sale, distribution, and use of the “morning-after pill” — imposing punishment for offenders equal to that [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.