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Center for Reproductive Rights Announces Challenge to Dozens of Abortion Restrictions in Mississippi

Center for Reproductive Rights Announces Challenge to Dozens of Abortion Restrictions in Mississippi Challenge builds on and expands Center for Reproductive Rights’ recent lawsuit against state’s unconstitutional 15-week abortion ban (PRESS RELEASE)  The Center for [...]

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Federal District Court Temporarily Blocks Mississippi’s Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban in Response to Center for Reproductive Rights Challenge

Federal District Court Temporarily Blocks Mississippi’s Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban in Response to Center (MEDIA ADVISORY) Today, a federal judge in Mississippi issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state’s unconstitutional ban on abortion after 15 [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Files New Lawsuit Challenging Mississippi’s Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban

Center for Reproductive Rights Files New Lawsuit Challenging Mississippi’s Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s unconstitutional ban on abortion after 15 weeks. The lawsuit comes [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Louise Slaughter

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Louise Slaughter Today, U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the first woman to represent Western New York in Congress and longtime abortion rights advocate, has died at the age of 88. [...]

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Mississippi Lawmakers Attack Reproductive Rights with Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban

Mississippi Lawmakers Attack Reproductive Rights with Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban Bill heading to governor’s desk will be the earliest abortion ban in effect in the United States, and targets state’s last remaining clinic (PRESS RELEASE) Today [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU of Montana File Lawsuit Challenging Law That Prohibits Qualified Clinicians from Providing Abortions

Center and ACLU of Montana File Lawsuit Challenging Law That Prohibits Clinicians from Providing Abortions (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana filed a lawsuit today in [...]

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Senate Rejects Unconstitutional Nationwide Abortion Ban at 20 Weeks

Senate Rejects Unconstitutional Nationwide Abortion Ban at 20 Weeks (PRESS RELEASE) — Today, the Senate rejected an unconstitutional federal ban on abortions at 20 weeks. Failing the 60 vote threshold, the 51-46 procedural vote blocked a [...]

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Federal District Court Continues to Block Unconstitutional Texas Abortion Restrictions

Federal District Court Continues to Block Unconstitutional Texas Abortion Restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) A federal district court today blocked a Texas measure requiring health care providers to bury or cremate embryonic or fetal tissue from abortions, miscarriage or [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights, National Women’s Law Center, File Freedom of Information Act Request to Investigate HHS Division Devoted to Promoting Health Care Discrimination

Center for Reproductive Rights, National Women’s Law Center, File Freedom of Information Act Request to Investigate HHS – (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Women’s Law Center filed today a Freedom [...]

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Senate to Consider Unconstitutional Nationwide Abortion Ban at 20 Weeks

Senate to Consider Unconstitutional Nationwide Abortion Ban at 20 Weeks (PRESS RELEASE) — As the government returns to work following a three-day shutdown amid uncertainty about how to keep the government funded past February 8, [...]

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One Year Since Reinstatement, Global Gag Rule Has Devastating Impact on Women’s Health and Human Rights Worldwide

One Year Since Reinstatement, Global Gag Rule Has Devastating Impact on Women’s Health and Human Rights Worldwide (PRESS RELEASE) One year ago today, as one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump imposed a [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights and We Testify Debut Video Series Commemorating 45th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Center for Reproductive Rights and We Testify Debut Video Series Commemorating 45th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, in partnership with We Testify, a program of the National Network of Abortion Funds, released a [...]

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Federal Court Rejects Bid to Halt Center for Reproductive Rights Lawsuit Against Louisiana Abortion Restrictions

Federal Court Rejects Bid to Halt Center for Reproductive Rights Lawsuit Against Louisiana Abortion Restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) – A Louisiana federal court today rejected in large part the state’s efforts to shut down litigation brought [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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