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Texas Court Throws Out Case Against Doctor Who Violated Abortion Ban
12.08.22 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, a state court ruled that it would dismiss a lawsuit against Dr. Alan Braid, a Texas physician who provided an abortion to a woman in violation of the state’s ban [...]
New Tool Tracks State Abortion Cases
12.05.22 (PRESS RELEASE) —Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law launched a new tool that tracks all abortion ban cases filed in state courts since the Supreme Court [...]
Kansas Court Says Abortion Clinics Can Use Telemedicine
11.23.22 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, a Kansas state court blocked a 2011 law that prohibited doctors from providing medication abortion via telemedicine. The preliminary injunction was issued in a lawsuit filed by the Center for [...]
Georgia Supreme Court Allows Six-Week Abortion Ban to Again Take Effect
11.23.2022 (PRESS RELEASE) – The Georgia Supreme Court granted an emergency stay of a lower court’s injunction today, allowing a six-week abortion ban to take effect once again while the state’s appeal continues. The ban [...]
Georgia State Court Blocks Unconstitutional Six-Week Abortion Ban
11.15.2022 (PRESS RELEASE) – The Superior Court of Fulton County today struck down Georgia’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, allowing health care providers in the state to once again provide essential abortion [...]
Montana Voters Reject Anti-Abortion Ballot Initiative
11.10.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) A Montana ballot initiative (LR-131)–which was strongly opposed by the Montana Medical Association and Montana Hospital Association–has been rejected by Montana voters. Designed to stigmatize abortion, the referendum was deceivingly named [...]
Kentucky Voters Reject Anti-Abortion Constitutional Amendment
11.09.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Kentucky voters have rejected Amendment 2, a ballot initiative that would have amended the state constitution to clarify that it does not protect the right to abortion. Because of Kentucky’s “trigger [...]
Californians Approve Constitutional Amendment Protecting Right to Abortion
11.08.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) California voters tonight approved Proposition 1, which adds language to the state constitution expressly ensuring the right to abortion. While the California constitution already protects the right to privacy, the constitution [...]
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Michigan Voters Approve Constitutional Amendment to Protect Reproductive Freedom
11.09.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Voters in Michigan tonight passed Proposition 3, voting to amend their state constitution to affirm the right of every Michigander to reproductive freedom, including the right to abortion. Earlier tonight, voters [...]
Vermonters Approve Constitutional Amendment to Protect Abortion in Landslide Vote
11.08.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Tonight, voters in Vermont overwhelmingly passed The Reproductive Liberty Amendment, choosing to amend their state constitution to affirm the right of every Vermont citizen to reproductive freedom, including the right to [...]
Elizabeth Banks Helps Raise $2.7 Million for the Center for Reproductive Rights at 30th Anniversary Gala
10.26.22 (PRESS RELEASE) —The Center for Reproductive Rights raised $2.7 million Tuesday night at its 30th anniversary gala in New York, with special guest Elizabeth Banks. The event was held just four months after the [...]
Georgia Abortion Providers Urge Court to Block Six-Week Abortion Ban at Trial
10.25.2022 (PRESS RELEASE) – This week, Georgia abortion providers and advocates went to trial, seeking to block the state’s ban on abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy. For more than three months, the ban [...]
Lawsuit Filed to Restore Abortion Access in Arizona
10.4.22 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, an Arizona physician and the Arizona Medical Association filed a lawsuit in state court, asking the court to allow abortion care to resume through 15 weeks of pregnancy. The lawsuit [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
