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Texas Court Strikes Down Ban on Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion After Approximately 15 Weeks
Texas Court Strikes Down Ban on Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion (Press Release) Today, a federal district court judge struck down a Texas measure banning the safest and most common method of ending a [...]
Trial Concludes in Challenge to Texas Abortion Method Ban
Trial Concludes in Challenge to Texas Abortion Method Ban (PRESS RELEASE) A trial concluded yesterday in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood, on behalf of lead plaintiff Whole Woman’s [...]
U.S. House of Representatives Passes Unconstitutional Nationwide Ban on Abortion at 20 Weeks
U.S. House of Representatives Passes Unconstitutional Nationwide Ban on Abortion at 20 Weeks (PRESS RELEASE)—Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 36, an unconstitutional nationwide ban on abortion at 20 weeks, prohibiting safe and [...]
Federal District Court Temporarily Blocks Texas Measure Banning One of the Safest, Most Common Methods of Second Trimester Abortion
Federal District Court Temporarily Blocks Texas Measure (PRESS RELEASE) A federal district court judge today issued a temporary restraining order blocking a 2017 Texas measure banning the safest and most common method of ending a [...]
Chile to Pass Historic Bill
Chile to Pass Historic Bill that Decriminalizes Abortion in Certain Circumstances Chile to Pass Historic Bill that Decriminalizes Abortion in Certain Circumstances (PRESS RELEASE) Today Chile’s Constitutional Tribunal voted 6 to 4 to pass an abortion [...]
Federal District Court Blocks Four Arkansas Abortion Restrictions Due to Legal Challenge Brought by Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU
Federal District Court Blocks Four Arkansas Abortion Restrictions Measures could have effectively ended abortion care for many women in the state (PRESS RELEASE) A federal district court judge last night preliminarily blocked four abortion restrictions [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood File New Lawsuit Challenging Texas Measure Banning The Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion in the Second Trimester
CRR, PP File New Lawsuit Challenging TX Measure Banning Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion in Second Trimester Dangerous law puts medical decisions in the hands of politicians -- rather than doctors and their patients. [...]
Chile’s Senate Passes Abortion Bill
Chile’s Senate Passes Abortion Bill (PRESS RELEASE) After more than two years of Congressional deliberations, today the Chile Senate passed an abortion bill that will allow women to access safe and legal abortion services in [...]
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Salvadoran Teenager Wrongfully Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Experiencing Pregnancy Complications
Salvadoran Teenager Wrongfully Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Experiencing Pregnancy Complications (PRESS RELEASE) This week a nineteen-year old Salvadoran rape survivor who became pregnant and suffered a stillbirth was sentenced to 30 years [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU File New Lawsuit Challenging Four Abortion Restrictions Passed in Arkansas This Year
Center, ACLU File New Lawsuit Challenging Four Abortion Restrictions Passed in Arkansas This Year (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Arkansas filed a new [...]
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley Pays Lip Service To Human Rights While Trump Administration Continues To Violate Them
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley Pays Lip Service To Human Rights While Trump Administration Continues To Violate Them Ambassador Haley Condemns Countries That Violate Human Rights, Dodges Questions on U.S. Role at the Council (PRESS RELEASE) [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Vows to Fight Texas’ Latest Attempt to Restrict Abortion
Center for Reproductive Rights Vows to Fight Texas’ Latest Attempt to Restrict Abortion Governor signs measure banning safe, proven method of abortion, also doubles down on regulations targeting women seeking abortion care, miscarriage management (PRESS [...]
Dominican Republic Senate Halts Decriminalization Of Abortion
Dominican Republic Senate Halts Decriminalization Of Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Yesterday, the Dominican Republic's Senate (Congress’s upper chamber) voted against advancing a penal code that would allow women access to safe abortion services in cases of [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
