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Kansas Supreme Court Reaffirms Right to Abortion Under State Constitution

07.05.24 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Kansas Supreme Court reaffirmed that the state constitution protects the right to abortion, striking down several abortion restrictions. Among the laws permanently struck down today is a ban on [...]

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Supreme Court Refuses to Say Whether EMTALA Requires Hospitals to Provide Stabilizing Abortions

06.27.24 (PRESS RELEASE) — Just one day after accidentally posting the unfinished opinion to their website, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today to reinstate a lower court injunction that blocked Idaho’s abortion ban to the [...]

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Texas Medical Board Fails to Clarify Abortion Ban Exceptions

6.21.2024 (PRESS STATEMENT) — Today, the Texas Medical Board published rules to purportedly clarify exceptions to the state’s harsh abortion bans. The rules were published after undergoing a 30-day public comment period and a public [...]

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Supreme Court Ruling Maintains Access to Mifepristone

Current regulations of mifepristone will remain unchanged for now

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Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Women Denied Abortion Care Despite Dangerous Pregnancy Complications

In Zurawski v. State of Texas, court refuses to provide clarity on exceptions to state abortion bans.

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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Its Second Major Abortion Case of the Term on April 24 card link

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Its Second Major Abortion Case of the Term on April 24

Case will determine if states banning abortion can override federal law and deny pregnant patients emergency abortion care.

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Ruling’s Impact on the Undue Burden Standard

A new report issued by the Center for Reproductive Rights analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in June Medical Services v. Russo, a leading abortion case brought by the Center.

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Supreme Court Keeps Abortion Pill on the Market as Case Continues

04.21.23 (PRESS RELEASE) — Today, the Supreme Court announced it would continue to block an unprecedented order seeking to revoke the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval of mifepristone—one of the two drugs used in [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Argues Before Kansas Supreme Court to Stop Grand Jury from Obtaining Patient Medical Records in Abortion Case

NEW YORK- Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights argued before the Kansas Supreme Court to stop a citizen-petitioned grand jury from obtaining the medical records of approximately 2,000 women who sought services from Kansas abortion [...]

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Oklahoma Supreme Court Keeps Pre-Roe Ban in Effect

03.21.23 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Oklahoma Supreme Court recognized that the state constitution protects the right to abortion in life-threatening situations but nonetheless upheld the state’s “pre-Roe” ban. Today’s decision means most Oklahomans will [...]

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New York Times Letter to the Editor: ‘Beatriz’ of El Salvador, Denied a Lifesaving Abortion

New York Times Letter to the Editor: ‘Beatriz’ of El Salvador, Denied a Lifesaving Abortion To the Editor: Re “Salvador Court Denies Abortion to Ailing Woman, Citing Strict Prohibition” (news article, May 30) and “A [...]

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Game Changer

What does our historic win at the Supreme Court mean for abortion access? Stephanie Toti, lead attorney in the case, breaks it down. To keep calm on the evening before the U.S. Supreme Court was [...]

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Statement on Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling by Dr. LeRoy H. Carhart, the lead plaintiff in Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) and Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)

April 18, 2007 - I am devastated by today's decision. I have taken this issue to the Supreme Court twice because I care deeply about the health of my patients and all women. When the [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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