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Mississippi Continues to Defend 15-Week Abortion Ban Despite Searing Court Decision
Mississippi Continues to Defend 15-Week Abortion Ban Despite Searing Court Decision After a blistering court decision calling out Mississippi politicians for “gaslighting” women and wasting taxpayer money, the state continues fight for unconstitutional law (PRESS [...]
Ohio Lawmakers Pass Multiple Extreme Abortion Bans
Ohio Lawmakers Pass Multiple Extreme Abortion Bans Center for Reproductive Rights urges Governor Kasich to veto Ohio abortion bans (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Ohio state senate passed a law (HB 258) that would effectively ban [...]
Oklahoma Court Fails to Block 72-Hour Abortion Delay
Oklahoma Court Fails to Block 72-Hour Abortion Delay (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Oklahoma District Court failed to block a measure tripling the state’s mandatory waiting period from 24 to 72 hours for virtually all women seeking abortion [...]
The Center for Reproductive Rights Sues U.S. Department of State over Continued Decision to Delete Reproductive Rights from Human Rights Reports
The Center for Reproductive Rights Sues U.S. Department of State over Continued Decision to Delete Reproductive Rights (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a second Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against [...]
Center Sues Kenyan Officials Over Recent Ban on Marie Stopes
(PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights and co-counsel Sofia Rajab-Leteipan of Leteipan & Associates Advocates have today filed a case at the High Court, Nairobi, against Kenyan government officials. The petition is challenging the [...]
Mississippi Ban on Abortion After 15 Weeks of Pregnancy Struck Down by Federal District Court
Mississippi Ban on Abortion After 15 Weeks of Pregnancy Struck Down by Federal District Court State ban is found unconstitutional in a victory for the Center for Reproductive Rights and Jackson Women’s Health Organization (PRESS [...]
Trust Women Foundation Inc. v. Schmidt
(Revised: 8.19.20) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit challenging section 6 of the Kansas Telemedicine Act (House Bill 2028) which seeks to ban abortions administered through telemedicine, including medication abortion. The bill, which was [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Sues to Block Ban on Telemedicine Abortions in Kansas
Center for Reproductive Rights Sues to Block Ban on Telemedicine Abortions in Kansas With only four abortion clinics in Kansas, telemedicine is crucial to abortion access (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed [...]
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Texas Ban on Safest Method of Abortion After 15 Weeks Inches Closer to Supreme Court
Texas Ban on Safest Method of Abortion After 15 Weeks Inches Closer to Supreme Court Fifth Circuit now reviewing law that would force Texas doctors to perform higher-risk procedures that go against their best medical [...]
UN Human Rights Committee Asserts that Access to Abortion and Prevention of Maternal Mortality are Human Rights
UN Human Rights Committee Asserts that Access to Abortion and Prevention of Maternal Mortality are Human Rights (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes and firmly supports the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s General [...]
Nepal Enacts Legislation to Protect Women’s Rights to Bodily Autonomy
(PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes Nepal's official enactment of the “Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Rights Act, 2018” (RH Act). The act has been endorsed by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari of Nepal, [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights and National Women’s Law Center v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed suit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for refusing to release records related to a new division within the [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights v. U.S. Department of State
The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of State (DOS) for refusing to release records related to the deletion of the reproductive rights subsection from DOS’s [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
