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Center for Reproductive Rights Vows to Fight Back in Court After President Trump Signs Executive Order Greenlighting Discrimination Against Women

Center Vows to Fight Back in Court After Trump Signs Executive Order Greenlighting Discrimination Against Women (PRESS RELEASE) President Donald Trump signed an executive order today that would grant wide exemptions to the Affordable Care [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Submits Amicus Brief Supporting ACLU’s Challenge to Alabama Abortion Ban

Center for Reproductive Rights Submits Amicus Brief Supporting ACLU’s Challenge to Alabama Abortion Ban (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Center for Reproductive Rights yesterday filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh [...]

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Congressman Don Beyer to Speak Out in Support of Federal Women’s Health Protection Act at Community Event in Virginia

Congressman Don Beyer to Speak Out in Support of Federal Women’s Health Protection Act at Community Event in Virginia (MEDIA ADVISORY) Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA-8) will join community leaders, women’s health advocates, and other elected [...]

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Federal Court Permanently Blocks Clinic Shutdown Laws in Tennessee

Federal Court Permanently Blocks Clinic Shutdown Laws in Tennessee A federal district court permanently blocked two of Tennessee’s Texas-style clinic shutdown laws today after the state dropped their defense of the measures, ensuring both restrictions [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Evasion of Questions on Roe v. Wade and Constitutional Right to Privacy

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Evasion of Questions on Roe v. Wade This week before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, despite being asked repeatedly, Judge Neil Gorsuch refused to [...]

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Croatian Court Reaffirms Constitutionality of Women’s Access to Abortion

Croatian Court Reaffirms Constitutionality of Women’s Access to Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia reaffirmed the constitutionality of access to abortion. The Constitutional Court decision rejected claims made by [...]

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Arizona Governor Signs Measure Reversing Restrictions on Medication Abortion

Arizona Governor Signs Measure Reversing Restrictions on Medication Abortion Measure is intended to resolve legal challenges blocking restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) signed a measure into law late yesterday which effectively repeals [...]

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43 Years Later, U.S. Supreme Court Called on to Defend Right Recognized in Roe v. Wade

43 Years Later, U.S. Supreme Court Called on to Defend Right Recognized in Roe v. Wade Texas’ clinic shutdown law threatens abortion access for millions of women, defies decades of Supreme Court rulings (PRESS RELEASE) [...]

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Senate Committee Passes Appropriations Bills Promoting Equal Health Coverage for D.C., Peace Corps

Senate Committee Passes Appropriations Bills Promoting Equal Health Coverage for D.C., Peace Corps Center for Reproductive Rights applauds members of Senate Appropriations Committee, urges Congress to keep these critical advances intact through final passage (PRESS [...]

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Federal Judge in ND Blocks the Nation’s Earliest and Most Extreme Abortion Ban

Federal Judge in ND Blocks the Nation's Earliest and Most Extreme Abortion Ban Judge calls law banning abortion as early as six weeks “clearly invalid and unconstitutional” under U.S. Supreme Court precedent (PRESS RELEASE) A [...]

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State Judge Announces Intention to Permanently Strike North Dakota’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion as Unconstitutional

State Judge Announces Intention to Permanently Strike North Dakota’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) At the conclusion of a three-day trial, District Court Judge Wickham Corwin announced today that he plans to issue a [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights and ACLU File Lawsuit to Block Extreme and Unconstitutional Abortion Ban in Arkansas

Center and ACLU File Lawsuit to Block Extreme Abortion Ban in Arkansas (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, and ACLU of Arkansas filed a legal challenge today against Arkansas's unconstitutional [...]

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Federal Judge Blocks All Enforcement of Mississippi Admitting Privileges Requirement

Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of Mississippi Admitting Privileges Requirement State Department of Health will be barred from revoking clinic’s license based on admitting privileges pending outcome of federal lawsuit (PRESS RELEASE) A federal court ruled [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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