U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Challenges to Birth Control Benefits in Affordable Care Act
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Challenges to Birth Control Benefits in Affordable Care Act Two for-profit companies, including arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, attempting to impose religious beliefs on female employees by refusing [...]
Two More Texas Health Centers Forced to Close in Wake of Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Passed Last Summer
Two More Texas Health Centers Forced to Close in Wake of Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Passed Last Summer Women in East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley face dire health care crisis (PRESS RELEASE) Whole Woman’s [...]
New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion
New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion Regulations would severely limit—if not outright ban—access to medication abortion, force doctors to ignore best medical practices (PRESS RELEASE) Women’s health care providers filed a federal [...]
Harmful Alaska regulation that discriminates against low-income women temporarily blocked
Harmful Alaska regulation that discriminates against low-income women temporarily blocked Significant victory for Medicaid-eligible women in accessing the full range of reproductive health care (PRESS RELEASE) An Alaska Superior Court has extended the Temporary Restraining Order [...]
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska Lawsuit seeks to immediately block new regulation that severely restricts abortion coverage through the state Medicaid program [...]
Federal Court Permanently Strikes Down Coercive North Carolina Ultrasound Law as Unconstitutional
Federal Court Permanently Strikes Down Coercive NC Ultrasound Law as Unconstitutional Judge finds state law forcing narrated ultrasounds on women seeking abortion violates constitutional rights of women and their health care providers (PRESS RELEASE) A [...]
Supreme Court Considers Massachusetts Law Securing Women’s Safe Entrance into Reproductive Health Care Facilities
Supreme Court Considers MA Law Securing Women’s Safe Entrance into Reproductive Health Care Facilities The Center for Reproductive Rights leads broad coalition 16 of civil rights groups in filing brief in support of state law [...]
Supreme Court Refuses to Review Arizona Abortion Ban
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
2012: U.S. in Review
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 [...]
New Beginning in Nepal
New Beginning in Nepal As the only global legal advocacy group dedicated to the advancement of reproductive rights worldwide, the Center set a goal several years ago to establish a strong presence in the places [...]
Victory for Women as Affordable Care Act Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court
Victory for Women as Affordable Care Act Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court (PRESS RELEASE) Expanded preventive and reproductive health services for women have been preserved with today's U.S. Supreme Court decision largely upholding the Patient [...]
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Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.