A New Legal Landscape: A Three-Pronged Attack on Abortion Rights
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Center for Reproductive Rights Releases 2007 “What if Roe Fell?” Report, Groundbreaking Polling Shows A Majority of Americans Believe Roe is Vulnerable WASHINGTON, D.C.- According to legal analysis conducted by the Center for Reproductive Rights, Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision, is under attack like never before with activists using new strategies at […]
“TRAP” laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) target the medical practices of doctors who provide abortions, and impose on them burdensome requirements which are different and more stringent than the legal requirements imposed on other medical practices. These excessive and unnecessary government regulations increase the cost and scarcity of abortion services, harming women’s health and […]
Emergency contraception (“EC”) is a form of birth control that is taken after sexual intercourse. Currently, the only drug available in the United States that has been specifically approved by the FDA for use as an emergency contraceptive is Plan B, which consists of a course of hormonal birth control pills taken in a two-dose […]
For decades, women seeking maternity services in health facilities across Kenya have suffered serious human rights violations — including verbal attacks, sexual assault, flagrant neglect and filthy conditions — often while giving birth, according to a new fact-finding report published by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Federation of Women Lawyers — Kenya (FIDA […]
The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was far from radical—it was the logical extension of Supreme Court decisions on the right to privacy dating back to the turn of the century and used the same reasoning that guarantees our right to refuse medical treatment and the freedom to resist government search and […]
Likhaan, ReproCen, and the Center for Reproductive Rights have released a report documenting the devastating impact of Manila’s contraception ban on women and their families. In 2000, the mayor of Manila, Jose “Lito” Atienza, issued an Executive Order (EO) “upholding natural family planning” and “discouraging the use of artificial methods of contraception like condoms, pills, […]
On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court struck down the State of Texas’s criminal abortion laws, finding that the right to decide whether to have a child is a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The 7-2 decision in Roe v. Wade would have an immediate and profound effect on the lives […]