Texas Law Deputizes Citizens to Enforce 6 Week Abortion Ban
Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health and Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, spoke to Chris Cuomo on Cuomo Prime Time about S.B. 8, the Texas law banning abortion at six weeks of [...]
Doctors, Clergy Sue Over New Texas Law That Offers $10,000 Bounty on Abortions
Rolling Stone covered a lawsuit, filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners, to block S.B. 8, a Texas law banning abortion care after approximately six weeks of pregnancy, before many people know they [...]
Lawsuit Targets Texas Abortion Law Deputizing Citizens to Enforce Six-week Ban
In this Washington Post piece about the lawsuit brought by the Center and it partners to block Texas' ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, Center President and CEO Nancy Northup said, “The state [...]
Lawsuit Takes Aim at Citizen-Enforced Texas Abortion Law
This New York Times article discusses a lawsuit brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners challenging Texas' ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, before many people know they are pregnant. [...]
Amicus Work – Asia
Lakshmi v Government of Nepal Supreme Court of Nepal (2008) Issue: The petition challenged the Nepal government’s failure to ensure adequate access to safe abortion services despite the decriminalization of abortion on broad grounds in 2002. [...]
Amicus Work – Africa
Teachers Service Commission v WJ & 5 others [2020] eKLR Court of Appeal of Kenya (2015) Issue: Whether the Teachers Service Commission is vicariously liable for alleged acts of sexual abuse against two students. Center [...]
Amicus Work: Europe
Application by Sarah Jane Eware for Judicial Review (Reference No: 2018/60061/01) High Court of Northern Ireland (2019) Issue: Prohibition and criminalization of abortion. Center’s position: The prohibition and criminalization of abortion in Northern Ireland violated [...]
The Center’s Joel Dodge Profiled as ACS Lawyer
Joel Dodge, staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, was profiled in July's "Lawyers of ACS" by the American Constitution Society. View the ACS profile here.
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Women’s Health Protection Act: Congress Has a Moral and Legal Obligation to Protect Abortion Access
Ms. Magazine featured the congressional testimony of Professor Michele Goodwin, chancellor’s professor at the University of California, Irvine, in support of the Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA). She testified: Enacting WHPA will be a substantial [...]
We’re Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, and We’re Braced for the Worst
Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s Shannon Brewer contributes an opinion piece to the New York Times describing what it’s like to be the clinic director at the only abortion clinic left in Mississippi, dealing with dozens [...]
Women’s Health Protection Act Reintroduced in Congress: “Abortion with Dignity and Without Barriers”
In this Ms. Magazine article about the 2021 reintroduction of the Women's Health Protection Act, Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, talks about recently released polling conducted by Hart Research [...]
Democrats reintroduce legislation to protect abortion access around the country
In an NBC News piece about the 2021 reintroduction of the Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA), Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, is quoted on the importance of WHPA, saying, [...]
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