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The Supreme Court’s Next Big Abortion Decision

The Supreme Court's Next Big Abortion Decision “Roe v. Wade, watch out. The Supreme Court will venture into the abortion debate later this year when it considers the constitutionality of an Oklahoma law restricting the [...]

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The New Standard of Extreme: North Dakota Legislature Sends Six-Week Abortion Ban to Governor

The New Standard of Extreme: North Dakota Legislature Sends Six-Week Abortion Ban to Governor Center for Reproductive Rights calls on Governor Dalrymple to reject patently unconstitutional and dangerous measure (PRESS RELEASE) Today the North Dakota [...]

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Our Mission, Our Bond

Our Mission, Our Bond This month, we celebrate a pivotal moment in our country's history. Forty years ago, the United States Supreme Court changed the destinies of millions upon millions of women with its landmark [...]

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North Dakota Governor Signs the Nation’s Most Extreme Attack on Women’s Constitutional Rights into Law

North Dakota Governor Signs the Nation’s Most Extreme Attack on Women’s Constitutional Rights into Law Governor also approves law designed to shut down state’s only abortion clinic and unconstitutional bill outlawing abortions based on sex [...]

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Texas Tribune: Groups weigh legal challenge to abortion bill

Texas Tribune: Groups weigh legal challenge to abortion bill "As an omnibus bill restricting abortion access in Texas makes its way to Gov. Rick Perry’s desk, opponents of the measure are already weighing the possibility [...]

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Mother Jones: Republicans want to ban abortions after 20 weeks. Here’s how one group is fighting back

Mother Jones: Republicans want to ban abortions after 20 weeks "The Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based nonprofit, is at the center of the key legal battles over abortion and contraception. CRR filed the [...]

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New Lawsuit Filed to Block Nearly 50-Page Kansas Law Restricting Reproductive Health Care, Discriminating Against Women and Doctors

New Lawsuit Filed to Block Nearly 50-Page Kansas Law Restricting Reproductive Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit today to block a new Kansas law encompassing 47 pages of unconstitutional [...]

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TX Gov Signs Package of Harmful, Unconstitutional Measures to Make Abortion Practically Non-Existent

TX Gov Signs Package of Harmful, Unconstitutional Measures to Make Abortion Practically Non-Existent Provisions similar to the new Texas law have been challenged and blocked in other states (PRESS RELEASE) Governor Rick Perry signed into [...]

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Arkansas Governor Vetoes Unconstitutional Legislative Assault on Reproductive Rights

Arkansas Governor Vetoes Unconstitutional Legislative Assault on Reproductive Rights Ban on abortion at 12 weeks would have been most extreme anti-choice law in the country (PRESS RELEASE) Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe vetoed a measure Monday [...]

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Senator Lindsey Graham Leads New Attack on Women’s Health and Rights

Senator Lindsey Graham Leads New Attack on Women’s Health and Rights Senate bill follows House in attempting to enact unconstitutional ban on abortion at 20 weeks (PRESS RELEASE) After anti-choice politicians in the U.S. House of [...]

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North Dakota Legislature Approves Three More Unconstitutional Bills Designed to Ban Abortion in the State

North Dakota Legislature Approves Three More Unconstitutional Bills Designed to Ban Abortion in the State Measure designed to shut down the state’s only abortion clinic moves to governor’s desk (PRESS RELEASE) Just a week after [...]

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2012: U.S. in Review

2012: U.S. in Review Put 2012 against any year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, in 1973, and you would be hard pressed to find a period that offered as many highs [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.