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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Women Face Unprecedented Assault on Reproductive Rights, Center for Reproductive Rights Testifies Before Human Rights Committee
New York, NY—Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights testified before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), informing the panel of the U.S. government’s failures to protect women’s reproductive rights as covered in the principal [...]
The CEDAW Committee Urges States to Protect and Promote Sexual and Reproductive Rights
In July 2011, the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) urged the governments of Nepal, Costa Rica, and Zambia to improve their record on reproductive rights. The Center for Reproductive Rights, [...]
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