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Center for Reproductive Rights Challenges Louisiana Clinic Shutdown Laws One Year After Historic Supreme Court Decision

Center for Reproductive Rights Challenges Louisiana Clinic Shutdown Laws High court’s landmark Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt ruling declared similar restrictions unconstitutional (PRESS RELEASE) — The Center for Reproductive Rights today filed a new lawsuit [...]

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Senate Republicans Unveil Dangerous Health Care Bill Which Robs Millions of Health Care, Withholds Abortion Coverage for Virtually All Women in the United States

Senate Republicans Unveil Dangerous Health Care Bill Which Robs Millions of Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) Senate Republicans today unveiled their health care bill that dismantles the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and pushes health care out [...]

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Governors in Montana, Minnesota Veto Measures Designed to Restrict a Woman’s Access to Safe, Legal Abortion

Governors in Montana, Minnesota Veto Measures Designed to Restrict a Woman’s Access to Safe, Legal Abortion State advocates, policymakers continue to push back against abortion restrictions (MEDIA ADVISORY) Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton vetoed two measures [...]

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Louisiana Continues to Defend Texas-Style Clinic Shutdown Law

Louisiana Continues to Defend Texas-Style Clinic Shutdown Law Louisiana appeals court order blocking abortion restrictions identical to those found unconstitutional by Supreme Court last summer in Whole Woman’s Health (MEDIA ADVISORY)  Despite last summer’s landmark [...]

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House Passes Dangerous Bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act and Gut Women’s Health Care

House Passes Dangerous Bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act and Gut Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE)  By a narrow margin of 217-213, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed the so-called American Health Care [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on President Trump’s Proposed FY 2018 budget

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on President Trump’s Proposed FY 2018 budget President Trump's proposed budget would slash health programs for the most vulnerable and gut funding for global human rights bodies--threatening the wellbeing 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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Obama Budget Advances Reproductive Health at Home & Abroad, But Leaves Too Many Low-Income Women Behind

Obama Budget Advances Reproductive Health at Home & Abroad, But Leaves Too Many Low-Income Women Behind (PRESS RELEASE) President Barack Obama’s proposed FY2017 budget released yesterday includes steps toward expanding and promoting reproductive health care coverage [...]

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President Obama Vetoes Congressional Measure Defunding Planned Parenthood

President Obama Vetoes Congressional Measure Defunding Planned Parenthood (PRESS RELEASE) President Barack Obama today vetoed a measure that attempted to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal key pieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The measure [...]

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U.S Senate Narrowly Passes Latest Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood

U.S Senate Narrowly Passes Latest Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood Pro-choice champions attempt to block defunding language and protect women’s health clinics (PRESS RELEASE) Ignoring calls from elected officials and other key leaders, the U.S. [...]

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Court Protects Abortion Access for Low-Income Women in Alaska

Court Protects Abortion Access for Low-Income Women in Alaska (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Alaska Superior Court struck down a state law and Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) regulation that would have severely limited [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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