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Texas Supreme Court Denies Funding for Medically Necessary Abortions
Ban on Medicaid Abortions is Upheld Austin, TexasOn New Year’s Eve, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the State is not constitutionally obligated to pay for abortions for poor women who may need the procedure [...]
“Choose Life” License Plate Case Revived in Louisiana
Opens Challenge to Overall Policy for Issuing Specialty Plates New Orleans, LA In an unusual order issued yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit revived a challenge to the constitutionality of [...]
First-Ever Federal Abortion Ban Challenged in Court Today Law Challened by Dr. LeRoy Carhart and the National Abortion Federation
Lawsuits Filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU Acting to protect women's health, the National Abortion Federation, Dr. LeRoy Carhart, and several other physicians joined legal challenges today seeking to block a [...]
Sex Discrimination Continues in Florida After Court Refuses to Overturn Ban on Medicaid Funded Abortions
Low-Income Women’s Health Remains at Risk Continuing to put women's health at risk, Florida's Third District Court of Appeals issued an opinion today refusing to overturn Florida's ban on Medicaid funded abortions. The Center for [...]
Federal Abortion Ban Blocked by Nebraska Judge Minutes After President Bush Signs it into Law
Judge Issues Restraining Order Protecting Plaintiffs in Nebraska Today, a Nebraska federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the first-ever federal abortion ban from being enforced against the plaintiffs in the Nebraska lawsuit challenging [...]
Nebraska Doctor Takes Federal Abortion Ban to Court
Statement of LeRoy Carhart, M.D. Three years ago, in a case in which I was the plaintiff, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down my home state of Nebraska's law banning so-called "partial-birth abortion." That decision [...]
Unconstitutional Ban on Safe Abortion Procedures Heads Towards President’s Desk
Center for Reproductive Rights Prepares Court Challenge In the coming days, President Bush is expected to sign into law the first federal abortion ban in United States history. In conference last night, the House and [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights’ Expert Simon Heller to Testify Before Congress Against Abortion Ban
On Tuesday, March 25th, Simon Heller, Of Counsel, for the Center for Reproductive Rights will testify that an abortion ban pending before the House of Representatives is unconstitutional for the same reasons that led the [...]
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Hearing Set in Court Challenge to Virginia’s Abortion Ban
On Monday, November 24 at 2:30 PM the Center for Reproductive Rights will ask a federal judge to strike down Virginia's abortion procedures ban. The vaguely worded ban - which contains no exception to protect [...]
Women’s Access to Reproductive Health Care in Michigan no Longer at Risk After Law Suit is Settled
Michigan abortion providers have settled a lawsuit against the State to block a vague, new Michigan law that would have limited women's access to reproductive health care. Under the settlement, women will be able to [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
