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RH Reality Check: The Abortion Battle – Are Pro-choice Litigators Gun-Shy?
By Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights There’s no question that the anti-choice takeover of state capitols has emboldened zealots to aggressively push through as many abortion restrictions as possible. It seems like every [...]
Center President & CEO Nancy Northup featured on MSNBC’s Hardball
On June 30th, 2011, Center President and CEO Nancy Northup was featured on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. Ms. Northup discussed the outrageous legislation in Kansas designed to effectively outlaw abortion and how the Center [...]
Washington Post: Will states consider new tests for ‘Roe’?
By Robert Barnes "Mike Flood, the 35-year-old speaker of Nebraska's legislature, had a problem: He wanted to stop the state's well-known abortion provider from offering late-term abortions. A long line of Supreme Court precedents seemed [...]
Reproductive Rights Advocates Urge Mississippi Voters to Reject “Personhood” Ballot Measure as State Supreme Court Declines to Decide Constitutionality
(PRESS RELEASE) Following the Mississippi Supreme Court’s ruling today that it did not have the authority at this time to decide the constitutionality of a ballot proposal seeking to define life from the moment of [...]
NYC Council Passes Bill Regulating Crisis Pregnancy Centers
This afternoon, the New York City Council approved legislation that will regulate the deceptive practices of pregnancy counseling centers in the city. The measure requires crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to post signs in their facilities and [...]
Feminists for Choice: Why is the FDA Stalling Plan B Access?
By Ian Vandewalker, Legal Fellow with U.S. Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights Today's guest post comes to us from Ian Vandewalker, a Legal Fellow with the U.S. Legal Program at the Center [...]
NewsOK: Oklahoma lawmakers perpetuate a bad idea
By Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights Last year, Nebraska passed a law that bans women from obtaining an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Soon thereafter, the law's devastating impact became evident. Danielle [...]
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