United States
Ninth Circuit to Hear Oral Argument Against Arizona’s Regulation of Abortion Clinics
At 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 4, the Center for Reproductive Rights will argue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that Arizona’s abortion facility regulations deny equal protection to women who seek, and physicians who provide, abortions. Although a federal judge, in October 2002, struck down regulations that would have allowed […]
Hearing Set in Legal Challenge to Kansas Law that Violates Teens’ Rights to Confidential Health Care
On Tuesday, November 25 at 1:30 PM, the Center for Reproductive Rights will ask a federal judge to block a Kansas law that requires health-care and counseling professionals to report teenagers under 16 to the authorities when there is evidence that they are engaging in sexual activity. The plaintiffs, which include physicians, social workers, nurses, […]
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany, et al. v. Serio (amicus)
The Center for Reproductive Rights participated as an amicus (friend-of-the-court) in this case, in order to support the validity of New York’s Women’s Health and Wellness Act (WHWA), which requires employee health plans that cover prescription drugs to include coverage of FDA-approved contraceptive drugs and devices (such as oral contraceptives, diaphragms, Norplant, Depo Provera, cervical […]
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 health – would subject doctors to heavy fines and imprisonment for performing the safest second trimester abortion procedure, as […]
Tenth Circuit Asked to Uphold Decision Striking Down Oklahoma Parental Consent for Abortion Law
At 1:00 p.m. on Monday, November 17, the Center for Reproductive Rights will ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to affirm a lower court ruling that struck down an Oklahoma parental consent for abortion law. In June 2002, U.S. District Court Judge Claire V. Eagan found the law unconstitutional because it […]
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 the ban. Judge Richard G. Kopf’s order allows the plaintiffs and the people with whom they “work, teach, supervise, or […]
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 reaffirmed our Constitution’s protection for women’s basic right to safeguard their health and reproductive choices. It was an important victory […]
Hearing Set in Legal Challenge to First-Ever Federal Abortion Ban
Oral Arguments in Nebraska Scheduled for Wednesday Morning – Hours Before President Bush Signs the Unconstitutional Ban At 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, just hours before President Bush is scheduled to sign into law the first-ever federal abortion ban, the Center for Reproductive Rights will present oral arguments before a Nebraska federal judge in an effort […]
Nebraska Doctor Challenges Federal Abortion Ban in Court Today
Center for Reproductive Rights Files Case on Behalf of Dr. LeRoy Carhart In a Nebraska federal court today, the Center for Reproductive Rights is challenging a federal ban on safe abortion procedures about to be signed into law by President Bush. The unconstitutional ban, which contains no health exception, prohibits doctors from using the safest […]