On June 27, 2022, three days after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed a lawsuit in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans challenging Louisiana’s “trigger” laws, which were designed to ban abortion if Roe v. Wade were ever overturned. […]
Status: After a Georgia state court ruled in September 2024 to permanently block the state’s six-week abortion ban, declaring the ban unconstitutional under the Georgia constitution’s fundamental right to privacy, Georgia’s Attorney General appealed the ruling to the Georgia Supreme Court, which then reinstated the ban while the case proceeds at the Court. On February 20, 2025, the […]
On June 1, 2022, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed a lawsuit on behalf of Florida health care providers challenging the state’s law, HB 5, which bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Doctors who perform abortions in violation of the law are subject to felony criminal penalties and disciplinary action, including […]
Filed in state court, the lawsuit seeks to clarify doctors’ obligations under multiple, conflicting abortion laws, which have forced providers to cease abortion services for fear of criminal prosecution. In 1973, after the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, the state’s Civil War-era total abortion ban (A.R.S. 13-3603) […]
The Center and partners work to preserve access to abortion care after anti-abortion lawmakers move to enforce state abortion bans post-Roe.
Court overturns Roe v. Wade, abandoning decades of precedent and paving the way for states to ban abortion.
In this video series, Center attorneys answer your questions about our U.S. Supreme Court case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case, which challenges a Mississippi abortion ban, is the most consequential U.S. abortion rights case in decades. The Supreme Court is expected to announce its ruling before the end of its term in […]
The case challenges Oklahoma’s two extreme “vigilante-style” abortion bans.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to soon rule on the consequential abortion rights case challenging a Mississippi abortion ban enacted in direct defiance of Roe v. Wade. In the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners—Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn Roe—and nearly 50 […]
According to the Center’s “What if Roe Fell?” interactive tool, Texas is categorized as a “hostile” state for abortion. See more about Texas’s abortion laws here. Even before Texas’s S.B. 8 abortion ban took effect, abortion access in the state was already extremely limited. Prior to the implementation of S.B.8, Texas had the largest number of U.S. cities classified as […]
