(REVISED 01.04.2022) This lawsuit challenged an Oklahoma order effectively banning abortion care in the state. The March 24, 2020 order, issued by Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, required all “elective” medical and surgical procedures be postponed. In a press release issued March 27, Governor Stitt singled out abortion care, […]
(REVISED 4.22.2020) This litigation challenges actions taken by Governor Greg Abbott and other state officials to ensure that patients can continue to access essential, time-sensitive abortion services during the COVID-19 pandemic. While doctors and nurses in his state worked around the clock to care for patients suffering from COVID-19, Gov. Abbott inserted politics into what should be medical […]
Rally held while inside the Supreme Court, the Center argues the June Medical Services v. Russo abortion case.
(REVISED 4.23.2020) This lawsuit challenged two medically unnecessary anti-abortion laws in Oklahoma, both of which have been limiting access to abortion care in the state: Telemedicine Ban: This Oklahoma law bans abortion providers from using telemedicine to provide medication abortion (abortion by pills). Medication abortion has been approved by the FDA since 2000 and is extremely safe—the serious complication rate is […]
(REVISED 4.24.2020) This lawsuit was filed against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for failing to produce records related to the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) operations and enforcement of civil rights laws. The complaint was filed after two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests went effectively unanswered and is critical in revealing shifts in OCR’s priorities […]
This federal lawsuit challenged three Arizona TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider) laws that prevent and delay many women from accessing abortion. The lawsuit was filed on April 11, 2019 and jointly voluntarily dismissed without prejudice November 6, 2020. Arizona’s extreme, medically unnecessary TRAP laws violate Arizona women’s constitutional right to access legal abortion. Their […]
(REVISED 01.07.2022) Just days after the Trump Administration published its Domestic Gag Rule, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a case on behalf of Maine Family Planning –the largest reproductive health care organization in the state and its sole Title X family planning program grantee–asking the District Court of Maine to block the rule. Maine Family Planning was forced […]
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 2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (HRRs). The 2017 HRRs, published on April 20, 2018 omitted all mention of […]
(Revised 01.06.25) Citing flagrant defiance of federal law and the U.S. Constitution, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Americans United), and the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), along with their co-counsel Macey Swanson LLP, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana against the […]
This lawsuit sought to overturn several core components of the longstanding, unconstitutional abortion restrictions on the books in Virginia. These laws needlessly targeted abortion providers and harm patients seeking abortion services by imposing burdensome and medically unnecessary requirements. The laws restricted who may provide abortion care and how they provide it, and placed onerous, unnecessary […]
