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2024 State Legislative Wrap-Up
During 2024, the Center for Reproductive Rights tracked almost 2,000 pieces of reproductive rights legislation across 50 states, and Washington, D.C. This report highlights 2024 legislative trends impacting access to abortion care, assisted reproduction, and [...]
2023 State Legislative Wrap-Up
This policy report by the Center provides an overview of the U.S. state policy landscape after tracking almost 2,000 bills proposed in state legislatures relating to reproductive care.
Dobbs’s Destructive Originalism: Using “History and Tradition” to Undermine Liberty
This analysis by the Center explains the Dobbs majority’s approach to determining what liberty interests the Fourteenth Amendment protects; considers the ways in which the U.S. Supreme Court has previously assessed protected liberty interests; and [...]
U.S. Abortion Rights in Global Context
When the United States Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, it defied the overwhelming and decades-long global trend of liberalizing abortion laws and marginalized the U.S. on the international stage.
State Constitutions and Sex Discrimination
The Center’s new map and resource showing how state constitutional guarantees compare to federal protection.
Legal Analysis: What Dobbs Got Wrong
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed nearly 50 years of precedent and, for the first time, eliminated a right grounded in personal liberty: the right to abortion. Its ruling in Dobbs v. [...]
2022 State Legislative Wrap-up
This report provides an overview of the state policy landscape after analyzing hundreds of bills proposed and enacted in U.S. state legislatures relating to reproductive care.
En Honduras cada día la ley obliga a tres niñas violadas a ser madres
La prohibición absoluta del aborto es una violación a los derechos fundamentales de esas niñas.
The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment
How constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law can help strengthen reproductive rights going forward.
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights
How cases in state supreme courts can offer stronger and expanded legal grounds for protecting abortion rights.