United States
Jezebel: Revived Lawsuit Could Be Key To Overturning Plan B Decision
By Margaret Hartmann “Though Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled the FDA’s recommendation to give everyone access to Plan B without a prescription, the battle to make the drug more widely available for women of all ages isn’t over. The Center For Reproductive Rights has reopened its 6-year-old New York lawsuit, and it […]
Preliminary Injunction Decision: Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey
Download the Preliminary Injunction Decision for Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey order below. reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/68-Order-55-page-Decision.pdf
Center for Reproductive Rights Prepares New Legal Challenge to Lift FDA Restrictions on Emergency Contraception
Center will reopen its 2005 lawsuit against FDA and add HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as a defendant in the case (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights announced today it will reopen its 2005 lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for imposing unnecessary age restrictions on emergency contraceptives, and seek immediate relief to […]
New FDA Denial Holds Emergency Contraceptives to Unfair Standard, says Center for Reproductive Rights
(PRESS RELEASE) Late today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied the Center for Reproductive Rights’ 2001 Citizen Petition to make levonorgestrel-based emergency contraception available over the counter to women of all ages on the grounds the agency needs additional data—which a federal court decided two years ago was not necessary to make a […]
Human Rights Day 2011
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” That’s the first sentence of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations 63 years ago on December 10. And yet here we are, all these decades later, still fighting tooth and nail to ensure that those […]
CRR Responds to President Obama’s Comments on Recent Rejection of Plan B One-Step for Over-the-Counter Sale without Age Restriction
(PRESS RELEASE) Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO Nancy Northup again accused the Obama Administration of playing politics with women’s health today following President Obama’s remarks suggesting that sales of emergency contraceptives should continue to be restricted for young women under the age of 17 due to their potentially “adverse effect.” “When it comes […]
CRR Blasts Health and Human Services Secretary’s Intervention to Block FDA Approval of Plan B One-Step for Over-the-Counter, All-Ages Use
(PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights strongly criticizes U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to intervene and block the Food and Drug Administration’s expected approval of emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step for over-the-counter sale to women of all ages. “Six years ago, we sued the Bush administration for rejecting […]
Salon: Who’s winning the abortion war?
By Irin Carmon “This was the year politicians and women’s groups started using ‘war on women’ to refer to the Republican obsession with regulating uteruses. So if it’s a war, who’s winning? The answer, frustratingly, is no one. This year saw the cementing of a consensus that neither side particularly likes: Abortion is still legal, […]
Order Against Enforcement of the Act and Permanent Regulations: Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al.
This case challenges the constitutionality of onerous regulations and a sham licensing process adopted and implemented by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) that will cause most of the abortion providers in the State to cease providing ongoing abortion services. reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/12-Order-Granting-TRO-Pending-Hearing-on-App-for-TI-SIGNED-11-10-11.pdf