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After Massive Public Outcry, Polish Parliament Rejects Total Abortion Ban

After Massive Public Outcry, Polish Parliament Rejects Total Abortion Ban Polish women still face countless obstacles when trying to access safe, legal abortion (PRESS RELEASE) By a vote of 352-58, the Polish Parliament today rejected [...]

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Oklahoma Supreme Court Permanently Blocks State Law Criminalizing Women’s Health Care Providers

Oklahoma Supreme Court Permanently Blocks Law Criminalizing Health Care Providers Measure would have allowed warrantless searches of abortion providers and felony charges for administrative errors (PRESS RELEASE) The Oklahoma Supreme Court today permanently blocked an [...]

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Texas Doubles Down on Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion

Texas Doubles Down on Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion (MEDIA ADVISORY) Today the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) re-submitted unconstitutional new healthcare restrictions designed to increase both the cost of [...]

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As the Hyde Amendment Turns Forty, Center for Reproductive Rights Continues to Call for Repeal

As the Hyde Amendment Turns Forty, Center for Reproductive Rights Continues to Call for Repeal 40 years since passage of dangerous and discriminatory Hyde Amendment coincides with new national poll showing voters support lifting abortion [...]

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States Continue to Defend Unconstitutional Clinic Shutdown Laws in Spite of Supreme Court Ruling

States Continue to Defend Unconstitutional Clinic Shutdown Laws in Spite of Supreme Court Ruling (MEDIA ADVISORY) Earlier this week the Center for Reproductive Rights requested a federal district court permanently block Louisiana’s Texas-style clinic shutdown law [...]

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House Judiciary Subcommittee Holds Hearing Targeting Low-Income Women’s Access to Safe, Legal Abortion

(PRESS RELEASE) Despite facing a host of other issues related to access to critical health care services, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice earlier today held a hearing which focused on two [...]

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House Judiciary Committee on the Hyde Amendment: Statement

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Testimony of the Center for Reproductive Rights at House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing “The Ultimate Civil Right: Examining the Hyde Amendment and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act”

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Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Arizona Law Restricting Women’s Access to Medication Abortion, Ensuring Measure Will Never Take Effect

Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional AZ Law Restricting Access to Medication Abortion (PRESS RELEASE)—A federal district court yesterday ended the legal challenge to an unconstitutional Arizona law which severely restricted a woman’s [...]

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Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Arizona Law Forcing Doctors to Lie to Women, Ensuring Law Will Never Take Effect

Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Arizona Law Forcing Doctors to Lie to Women Ruling comes less than two months after nation’s highest court issues historic ruling reaffirming a woman’s constitutional right to [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on Texas to Abandon Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion

Center Calls on Texas to Abandon Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Center for Reproductive Rights has submitted comments to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in response [...]

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Comments Re: Proposed amendments to 25 Tex. Admin. Code §§ 1.132 – 1.137

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Alaska Supreme Court Overturns Parental Notice Law

Alaska Supreme Court Overturns Parental Notice Law Vulnerable teenagers relieved from additional burdensome hurdles. Ruling comes less than a month after nation’s highest court issues historic ruling reaffirming a woman’s constitutional right to safe, legal [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.