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Oklahoma Supreme Court Permanently Blocks State Law Criminalizing Women’s Health Care Providers
Oklahoma Supreme Court Permanently Blocks Law Criminalizing Health Care Providers Measure would have allowed warrantless searches of abortion providers and felony charges for administrative errors (PRESS RELEASE) The Oklahoma Supreme Court today permanently blocked an [...]
Texas Doubles Down on Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion
Texas Doubles Down on Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion (MEDIA ADVISORY) Today the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) re-submitted unconstitutional new healthcare restrictions designed to increase both the cost of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Arizona Law Restricting Women’s Access to Medication Abortion, Ensuring Measure Will Never Take Effect
Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional AZ Law Restricting Access to Medication Abortion (PRESS RELEASE)—A federal district court yesterday ended the legal challenge to an unconstitutional Arizona law which severely restricted a woman’s [...]
Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Arizona Law Forcing Doctors to Lie to Women, Ensuring Law Will Never Take Effect
Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Arizona Law Forcing Doctors to Lie to Women Ruling comes less than two months after nation’s highest court issues historic ruling reaffirming a woman’s constitutional right to [...]
Sia, Jessica Williams, Leslie Jones, and more, to perform in All Access concert supporting abortion access for all
Sia, Jessica Williams, Leslie Jones, and more, to perform in All Access concert supporting abortion access for all Abortion rights supporters will come together on September 10 in Cleveland, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia and Atlanta for [...]
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Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Looking Forward
Watch a discussion hosted by the Center and Cosmopolitan magazine on the future of reproductive rights. Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Joanna Coles—whose tenure at the magazine has been marked by a commitment to advancing women’s health issues—moderated [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on Texas to Abandon Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion
Center Calls on Texas to Abandon Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Center for Reproductive Rights has submitted comments to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in response [...]
Alaska Supreme Court Overturns Parental Notice Law
Alaska Supreme Court Overturns Parental Notice Law Vulnerable teenagers relieved from additional burdensome hurdles. Ruling comes less than a month after nation’s highest court issues historic ruling reaffirming a woman’s constitutional right to safe, legal [...]
Game Changer
What does our historic win at the Supreme Court mean for abortion access? Stephanie Toti, lead attorney in the case, breaks it down. To keep calm on the evening before the U.S. Supreme Court was [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Files New Lawsuit Challenging Every Abortion Restriction Passed in Louisiana This Year
Center for Reproductive Rights Files New Lawsuit Challenging Every Abortion Restriction Passed in Louisiana This Year Louisiana passes seven abortion restrictions this session, the highest number of any state in 2016. New filing comes four [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.