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State Court Blocks Oklahoma Measure Criminalizing Doctors for Providing Safe, Common Abortion Method, But Fails to Block 72-Hour Waiting Period
State Court Blocks Oklahoma Measure Criminalizing Doctors for Providing Safe, Common Abortion Method (PRESS RELEASE) Earlier today, a state court judge blocked an Oklahoma measure banning the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy [...]
Leading National Health Organizations, Legal Scholars, and State Attorneys General Oppose Texas Clinic Shutdown Law
Leading National Health Organizations, Legal Scholars, and State Attorneys General Oppose Texas Clinic Shutdown Law American Medical Association and 12 state Attorneys General among broad coalition urging U.S. Supreme Court to avert impending health crisis [...]
New Research Reveals Devastating Impact of Clinic Shutdown Laws on Texas Women
New Research Reveals Devastating Impact of Clinic Shutdown Laws on Texas Women Without U.S. Supreme Court intervention, widespread clinic delays will undermine the constitutional rights of women (PRESS RELEASE) New research released today by the Texas Policy [...]
New Lawsuit Challenges Two Oklahoma Laws That Delay Women’s Health Care and Criminalize Doctors
New Lawsuit Challenges Two Oklahoma Laws That Delay Women’s Health Care and Criminalize Doctors (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a new lawsuit in state district court today challenging two Oklahoma measures which [...]
Texas Continues to Fight Back: El Paso Clinic Reopens Following Supreme Court Action Blocking Sham Abortion Restrictions
Texas Continues to Fight Back: El Paso Clinic Reopens Following Supreme Court Action Blocking Sham Abortion Restrictions Reproductive Services in El Paso reopens, but millions of Texas women still at risk of losing access to [...]
United States Rejects Calls by U.N. Human Rights Council to End Harmful Restrictions on Reproductive Rights
United States Rejects Calls by U.N. Human Rights Council to End Harmful Restrictions on Reproductive Rights U.S. position leaves women without access to essential health services (PRESS RELEASE) This week the United States government rejected [...]
U.S. Senate Blocks Vote on Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban
U.S. Senate Blocks Vote on Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban Measure banning abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy would create mandatory delay for rape survivors, makes no exceptions for women’s health (PRESS RELEASE) Pro-choice Senators voted [...]
U.S. House Passes Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding
U.S. House Passes Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding House also passes measure criminalizing doctors, interfering with practice of medicine (PRESS RELEASE) Despite one in five women depending on Planned Parenthood in her [...]
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Virginia Board of Health Votes to Amend Regulations Designed to Shutter Abortion Clinics
Virginia Board of Health Votes to Amend Regulations Designed to Shutter Abortion Clinics (PRESS RELEASE) The Virginia Board of Health voted 9--6 today to lift some of the harsh restrictions in the state’s Texas-style clinic regulations [...]
Women’s Health Care Providers Ask United States Supreme Court to Take On Texas Clinic Shutdown Law
Women’s Health Care Providers Ask U.S Supreme Court to Take On Texas Clinic Shutdown Law As few as 10 clinics will remain in Texas if nation’s highest court fails to intervene (PRESS RELEASE) Today a [...]
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 [...]
State Court Permanently Blocks Oklahoma’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Medication Abortion
State Court Permanently Blocks Oklahoma’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Medication Abortion An Oklahoma state judge permanently blocked a state law restricting medication abortion today, ensuring women in the state will continue to have access to a [...]
New Resource Analyzes Major Policy Outcomes Impacting Texas Latinas in 84th Legislative Session
New Resource Analyzes Major Policy Outcomes Impacting Texas Latinas in 84th Legislative Session The Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health have released a new resource which analyzes the major policy outcomes [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.