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A First Look Back at the 2010 State Legislative Session
Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women's access to abortion, including mandatory delays, biased counseling provisions and other burdensome and unnecessary requirements. On average, more than six hundred bills are proposed [...]
Louisiana Abortion Providers Challenge New Ultrasound and Malpractice Law
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a federal challenge against two abortion restrictions recently passed by the Louisiana state legislature. One measure excludes doctors who perform abortion services from participating in a [...]
Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Denying Women Accurate Information About Pregnancy Options
Anti-choice groups have set up facilities all over the country with names like "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs), "pregnancy resource centers," or "pregnancy help centers." These facilities do not offer abortions, abortion referrals, or unbiased options [...]
Washington Post: Should church control health care?
By Nancy Northup - On Faith guest voice Opinion pages of U.S. newspapers lambasted a decision by St. Joseph's Hospital, a Catholic institution in Phoenix, over the excommunication and demotion of a nun. Sister Margaret [...]
Florida Governor Crist Vetoes Abortion Bill
(PRESS RELEASE) This afternoon, Florida Governor Charlie Crist vetoed an anti-abortion bill that included one of the most extreme ultrasound requirements in the country and would have imposed a discriminatory public health policy that reduced [...]
Veto Letter to FL Governor Crist: Legislative Bill 1143
Dear Governor Crist, The Center for Reproductive Rights opposes House Bill 1143 and strongly urges you to veto this measure. House Bill 1143 would enact one of the most extreme ultrasound laws proposed in the [...]
O’Brien v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Memo in Support of Motion to Dismiss
The Center for Reproductive Rights has joined the City of Baltimore to defend a first-in-the-nation ordinance that demands truth in advertising from limited-service pregnancy centers. Those centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, are non-medical [...]
O’Brien v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Motion to Dismiss
The Center for Reproductive Rights has joined the City of Baltimore to defend a first-in-the-nation ordinance that demands truth in advertising from limited-service pregnancy centers. Those centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, are non-medical [...]
O’Brien v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Complaint
The Center for Reproductive Rights has joined the City of Baltimore to defend a first-in-the-nation ordinance that demands truth in advertising from limited-service pregnancy centers. Those centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, are non-medical [...]
Center Demands Truth in Advertising from CPCs
Center Demands Truth in Advertising from CPCs The Center for Reproductive Rights has joined the City of Baltimore to defend a first-in-the-nation ordinance that demands truth in advertising from limited-service pregnancy centers. Those centers, also [...]
