Supreme Court Refuses to Review Arizona Abortion Ban Blatantly unconstitutional law banning abortions at 20 weeks remains permanently blocked by appellate court (PRESS RELEASE) The United States Supreme Court today refused to review an Arizona [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

2012: U.S. in Review Put 2012 against any year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, in 1973, and you would be hard pressed to find a period that offered as many highs [...]

Center for Reproductive Rights Resources and Materials on Refusal Laws The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other reproductive right opponents regularly proclaim that respect for religious liberty requires "conscience provisions," also known as refusal [...]

In the United States, state legislatures wield enormous power to control women’s access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare services. Each year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women’s access to abortion, including [...]

Low-Income Women’s Health Remains at Risk Continuing to put women's health at risk, Florida's Third District Court of Appeals issued an opinion today refusing to overturn Florida's ban on Medicaid funded abortions. The Center for [...]

Charging that Florida's ban on Medicaid funded abortions discriminates based on sex, the Center for Reproductive Rights will argue before a Florida court that it is unconstitutional to deny low-income women Medicaid funded abortions when [...]

By failing to ask the court to appoint a guardian for a severely disabled woman who is pregnant as a result of rape, the state of Florida once again abdicated its responsibilities today, placing politics [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights asked a state trial court today to block the state from appointing a guardian for the fetus of a severely disabled woman who is [...]