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Texas Health Care Providers Take Fight for Abortion Access to U.S. Supreme Court
Texas Health Care Providers Take Fight for Abortion Access to U.S. Supreme Court Texas women facing devastating loss of constitutionally protected health care (PRESS RELEASE) Following a decision Thursday from the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
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. [...]
Women’s Rights Hang In the Balance
Women's Rights Hang In the Balance By Nancy Northup Imagine that a group of state legislators didn't like a particular religious denomination and decided to run it out of state by enacting new building codes [...]
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Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska Lawsuit seeks to immediately block new regulation that severely restricts abortion coverage through the state Medicaid program [...]
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest v. Streur, et al.
(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 [...]
New Lawsuit Seeks to Block Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion in Oklahoma
New Lawsuit Seeks to Block Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion in Oklahoma Legal challenge filed less than a year after state courts permanently struck down similar measure as unconstitutional (PRESS RELEASE) Women’s health care providers filed [...]
Oklahoma Women At Risk of Losing Access to Non-Surgical Abortion on November 1
Oklahoma Women At Risk of Losing Access to Non-Surgical Abortion on November 1 District court fails to block unconstitutional law restricting medication abortion from taking effect. Center for Reproductive Rights plans immediate appeal to state [...]
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Stuart et al. v. Camnitz
(REVISED 6.2.2016) North Carolina passed a law in 2011 that prohibits a woman from obtaining an abortion unless her physician, during the course of an ultrasound procedure and while the woman is on an examination [...]
Full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Consider Texas Law Shuttering Abortion Clinics Statewide, Leaving Women without Safe, Legal Health Care Options
Full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Consider Texas Law Shuttering Abortion Clinics Statewide Women’s Health Care Providers, Advocates Considering Options as Law Remains in Effect (PRESS RELEASE) The full U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Election of Attorney General Greg Abbott to Texas Governor
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Election of Attorney General Greg Abbott to Texas Governor (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Center for Reproductive Rights called on Texas Governor-Elect Greg Abbott to reject the extreme and divisive [...]
Texas Clinics Closed by Fifth Circuit Can Reopen in Light of Supreme Court Ruling
Texas Clinics Closed by Fifth Circuit Can Reopen in Light of Supreme Court Ruling Nation’s Highest Court Reinstates Injunction Blocking Texas Law that Shuttered Nearly All Abortion Clinics in the State (PRESS RELEASE) In a [...]
Mississippi Governor Bryant Signs Dangerous and Unconstitutional Ban on Abortion
Mississippi Governor Bryant Signs Dangerous and Unconstitutional Ban on Abortion Center for Reproductive Rights calls on politicians to stop passing laws that attack constitutionally protected health care, focus on real work of improving women’s well-being [...]
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