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: The Georgia Supreme Court ruled on October 24, 2023, to allow this abortion ban to remain in effect, reversing a lower court decision that struck down the law. The case will return to the trial court for ruling on the remaining claims in the case. In SisterSong v. State of Georgia, the Center for Reproductive Rights […]
Florida’s HB 5, which bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, has been in effect since July 1, 2022. The law subjects abortion providers to felony criminal penalties and disciplinary action for providing care to their patients. On August 10 and again on August 31, Florida health care providers sought review in the Florida Supreme […]
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 week aims to raise awareness around racial inequities in U.S. maternal health outcomes.
As the U.S. faces a maternal health crisis, with Black women three times more likely to die than white women from pregnancy complications, the Center for Reproductive Rights has partnered to sponsor Black Maternal Health Week, April 11-17—a seven-day series aimed at raising awareness, inspiring activism, and strengthening organizing for Black maternal health.
Jennifer Jacoby is well-versed in racial bias in the U.S. maternal health care system and the unconscionably poor health outcomes that result from that bias. Guiding her each day, she says, are some stark and irrefutable statistics: The U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality and morbidity among the world’s wealthy nations, and Black […]
Law Enacted to Extend Postpartum Medicaid Coverage Aims to Reduce Maternal Mortality, Racial Disparity Advocacy efforts by the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners helped lead to the enactment of a new law in Georgia that will improve maternal health for mothers. The law extends postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to six months […]
Today, the Trump administration continued chipping away at civil rights protections by proposing a rule that endorses discrimination in health care settings—putting patients’ lives and health at risk. This rule, published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), rolls back the Affordable Care Act’s Health Care Rights Law, the first broad prohibition of […]
Lambda Legal, CRR, and Americans United Sue Trump Administration to Block Denial of Care Rule https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/us_3_0.jpg (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Lambda Legal, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit challenging the “Denial of Care” Rule issued earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Health […]