For the first time in decades, a president has submitted a budget without the Hyde Amendment, a policy that prohibits coverage of abortion care for people insured through Medicaid. It’s now up to Congress to pass federal appropriations bills without the Hyde Amendment and related abortion coverage bans to ensure that people living on low […]
Center and partners publish an issue brief examining barriers to care and policy solutions Servicemembers, veterans and their families face a number of barriers in accessing the contraception they need, particularly as compared to the civilian population. The Center for Reproductive Rights has joined with Power to Decide and the Service Women’s Action Network to develop […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, a California federal judge became the third judge in the U.S. to strike down the Trump Administration’s Denial of Care rule in its entirety. U.S. District Judge William Alsup also upheld the third party standing of reproductive rights physicians to bring cases on behalf of their patients and applied that doctrine to […]
Oklahoma law forces physicians to lie to patients about abortion, violating medical ethics and free speech (PRESS RELEASE)—Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma state court on behalf of abortion providers in the state. The lawsuit challenges an Oklahoma law forcing doctors to tell patients that medication abortion (abortion by pills) […]
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 […]
(REVISED 01.07.2022) Just days after the Trump Administration published its Domestic Gag Rule, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a case on behalf of Maine Family Planning –the largest reproductive health care organization in the state and its sole Title X family planning program grantee–asking the District Court of Maine to block the rule. Maine Family Planning was forced […]
(Revised 10.7.21) Citing flagrant defiance of federal law and the U.S. Constitution, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Americans United), and the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), along with their co-counsel Macey Swanson LLP, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana against the U.S. […]
Along with 29 other organizations, the Center urges Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reverse the Justice Department’s recent decision to not defend some provisions of the ACA, a move that could be especially harmful to women.