By Greg Horton “Oklahoma House Bill 1595, aka the Statistical Reporting of Abortion Act, suffered another setback on Dec. 18 when Oklahoma County District Judge Daniel Owens extended a temporary restraining order until Feb. 19, 2010. The order prevents the state from demanding women who are seeking an abortion fill out a 10-page questionnaire, and […]
By Rochelle Hines “An Oklahoma County judge Friday extended a temporary restraining order that blocks enforcement of a controversial abortion law that is being challenged on grounds that it violates the Oklahoma constitution. The state attorney general’s office, which is defending the law, argued that delaying enactment could result in harm to individuals, particularly under […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, an Oklahoma County District Court temporarily blocked enforcement of a new abortion law that would have imposed a host of restrictions on women’s access to abortion and cost the state over a quarter of a million dollars a year to implement. The judge extended the temporary restraining order currently in place until […]
By Wayne Drash “A judge could determine Friday whether to allow an Oklahoma law to go forward that will post information online about women who get abortions in the state — an act critics say would be harassment and an invasion of privacy.‘We don’t feel that the government should be able to run a grand […]
By Kathy Lohr “In Oklahoma, a new law requires any woman seeking an abortion to first answer dozens of personal questions, including why she wants the procedure. That information, names omitted, would eventually be posted on a state Web site. Those who support the measure say it will help them better understand why women are […]
This case, known as the Alaska Personhood Initiative, is a pre-election challenge to the Alaska Lieutenant Governor’s certification of a measure seeking to extend legal rights from the moment of conception. Case filed: 11/23/2009 State: Alaska Plaintiff(s): Victor Fischer, Anne Harrison, Mark Sandberg Center Attorney(s): Janet Crepps Co-Counsel/Cooperating Attorneys: Jeffrey M. Feldman, Feldman Orlansky […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights respectfully submits the following comments on the “Proposition of Organic Law on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy” (Proposición de Ley Orgánica sobre interrupción voluntaria del embarazo. Presentado el 17/04/2008, calificado el 22/04/2008) for the consideration of the distinguished representatives of the Spanish government. The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) […]
Nebraska Like giving birth to a child, when a woman ends her pregnancy during or after the second trimester, she confronts a serious problem. Her cervix will frequently be too small to allow the skull of the human fetus to pass through it. Although terminating a pregnancy in America is safer than childbirth, this “skull-is-too-large” […]
Parental involvement laws require young women to obtain the consent of or notify one or both parents in order to obtain an abortion, forcing those who are unable to comply with the requirements to delay obtaining appropriate medical care. Forty-three states have adopted some form of parental involvement law, but in six of those states, […]
Institute for the Study of Regulation Critique of the Department of Health and Human Service’s Cost-Benefit Analysis of proposed “conscientious refusal” regulation https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ISR-mem-re-HSS-CBA.pdf