(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 […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a complaint today in federal court in the District Court of the District of Columbia challenging interim final rules released last week by the Trump administration that threaten to curtail access to birth control coverage for thousands of women. The rules—which were issued by the Departments of Health and […]
(REVISED 1.19.22) This case was a challenge to a Texas ban on the standard procedure for abortion care after about 14-15 weeks. The Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood filed the lawsuit in federal district court in July 2017. The law was ruled unconstitutional by the district court and a panel of the Fifth Circuit […]
(REVISED 12.18.2021) - The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana’s clinic licensing law that forced most of the state’s abortion clinics to close. The law contains more than 1,000 medically unnecessary requirements that apply exclusively to clinics that provide abortion. Since the law took effect in 2001, the number of abortion clinics […]
(REVISED 8.25.2017) This case is a challenge to medically unnecessary Alaska restrictions, passed more than 40 years ago, that ban abortion in outpatient health centers after the first trimester of pregnancy. The restrictions force many women to travel out of state for procedures—if they can obtain them at all. This lawsuit was one of three simultaneous […]
On June 27, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a historic decision striking down a Texas law designed to shut down most of the state’s abortion clinics with medically unnecessary restrictions. The decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt reaffirms a woman’s constitutional right to access legal abortion, and will empower women to fight back […]
(Updated 03.26.24) On March 12, 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed this lawsuit, finding the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the law because the clinic is no longer a registered business in Oklahoma. The clinic was forced to stop performing abortions in May 2022, when the Oklahoma Supreme Court allowed a total abortion ban modeled on […]
