Legislation Prohibits Safest Abortion Procedure After 12 Weeks of Pregnancy Flouting a decision by the United States Supreme Court that found a ban on so-called “partial-birth abortion” to be unconstitutional, the U.S. Senate today passed a nearly identical version of the abortion ban (S.3) in a 65-32 vote. “Today, the Senate passed a law that […]
Indianapolis, INToday, an Indiana state court issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state’s mandatory delay abortion law after the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a state court challenge on behalf of several Indiana reproductive health clinics. The “two-trip” law forces women seeking abortions to make two separate trips to their physician’s office – at […]
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to Indiana’s Abortion Waiting Period Law Washington, D.C. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider a challenge to an Indiana abortion law that forces women seeking abortions to make two separate trips to their physician’s office – at least 18 hours apart – before they can obtain […]
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Anchorage, Alaska Trial began on Monday in a case brought by Alaska reproductive health service providers, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Anchorage law firm of Feldman & Orlansky, challenging Alaska’s parental consent law. Alaska’s parental consent law, first enacted in 1997 but never enforced, requires pregnant minors under 17 who desire […]
UN Human Rights Committee Establishes Right to Abortion as a Human Right (Updated 3.18.21) The Center for Reproductive Rights persuaded the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) to recognize that women have a human right to access safe and legal abortion. In a ruling that has been cited extensively as precedent in other national-level court decisions on abortion access, the UNHRC established that denying access to legal abortion violates the International Covenant on […]
Mexican Government Agrees to Establish Guidelines for Rape Victims’ Access to Abortion Care (Updated 3.18.21) Before the Inter American Commission of Human Rights, Mexico admitted responsibility for violating the rights of a 13-year-old rape victim, who was forced to continue a pregnancy that resulted from rape and become a mother after public health officials used a series of obstacles to convince her to withdraw her request for an abortion as a victim […]
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