Advanced Search

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 [...]

Contraception, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding, Maternal Health,United States,In the Courts,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA), In Washington D.C.,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA), In Washington D.C.,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts,News

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

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 [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Contraception, Legal Restrictions, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA), In Washington D.C.,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Other Financial Barriers, Public Funding,Asia, Nepal,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,News

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 [...]

Abortion, Contraception, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Public Funding, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,United States,In the Courts

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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