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Texas Clinics Closed by Fifth Circuit Can Reopen in Light of Supreme Court Ruling
Texas Clinics Closed by Fifth Circuit Can Reopen in Light of Supreme Court Ruling Nation’s Highest Court Reinstates Injunction Blocking Texas Law that Shuttered Nearly All Abortion Clinics in the State (PRESS RELEASE) In a [...]
Full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Consider Texas Law Shuttering Abortion Clinics Statewide, Leaving Women without Safe, Legal Health Care Options
Full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Consider Texas Law Shuttering Abortion Clinics Statewide Women’s Health Care Providers, Advocates Considering Options as Law Remains in Effect (PRESS RELEASE) The full U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
Texas Health Care Providers Take Fight for Abortion Access to U.S. Supreme Court
Texas Health Care Providers Take Fight for Abortion Access to U.S. Supreme Court Texas women facing devastating loss of constitutionally protected health care (PRESS RELEASE) Following a decision Thursday from the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
Fifth Circuit Greenlights Texas Law Which Will Immediately Shutter All But Seven Abortion Clinics in the Entire State
Fifth Circuit Greenlights Texas Law Which Will Immediately Shutter All But Seven Abortion Clinics in the Entire State Nearly One Million Texas Women Now Face Minimum of 300 Mile Roundtrip to Access Constitutionally Protected Health [...]
New Lawsuit Challenges Unconstitutional Oklahoma Abortion Restrictions
New Lawsuit Challenges Unconstitutional Oklahoma Abortion Restrictions Law Threatens to Reduce Access to Safe, Legal Abortion in Region Already Devastated by Similar Restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a new lawsuit in state [...]
New Report Debunks Politicians’ Disingenuous Claims about Protecting Women’s Health and Safety in Passing Abortion Restrictions
New Report Debunks Politicians’ Disingenuous Claims about Protecting Women’s Health, Safety with Abortion Restrictions States with Highest Number of Abortion Restrictions Have Poorest Health Outcomes, Least Supportive Policies for Women and Children (PRESS RELEASE) States [...]
New Lawsuit Seeks to Block Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion in Oklahoma
New Lawsuit Seeks to Block Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion in Oklahoma Legal challenge filed less than a year after state courts permanently struck down similar measure as unconstitutional (PRESS RELEASE) Women’s health care providers filed [...]
‘Top Chef’ Host Padma Lakshmi Joins Everyday Americans to Share Her Reproductive Health Care Story
‘Top Chef’ Host Padma Lakshmi Joins Everyday Americans to Share Her Reproductive Health Care Story State attacks on women’s constitutional rights galvanize women and men across the U.S. to speak out at DrawTheLine.org (PRESS RELEASE) [...]
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Missouri Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto, Triples Waiting Period for Women Seeking Safe and Legal Abortion Services
Missouri Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto, Triples Waiting Period for Women Seeking Safe, Legal Abortion Services Missouri joins Utah and South Dakota to become third state to force women to delay constitutionally protected health care for [...]
Leading Health and Human Rights Organizations Call for End to Unnecessary Restrictions that Harm Women’s Health Worldwide
Leading Health & Human Rights Organizations Call for End to Unnecessary Restrictions that Harm Women’s Health Worldwide Diverse Coalition of 80 Groups Calls on the Obama Administration to Allow U.S. Foreign Assistance for Safe Abortion [...]
Federal Court Blocks Enforcement of Louisiana Law Threatening Women’s Access to Safe and Legal Abortion
Federal Court Blocks Enforcement of Louisiana Law Threatening Women’s Access to Safe and Legal Abortion Clinics will remain open pending legal challenge (PRESS RELEASE) A Louisiana state law specifically designed to shutter abortion clinics across [...]
Federal Court Protects Texas Women from Further Loss of Abortion Access
Federal Court Protects Texas Women from Further Loss of Abortion Access HB2 provision requiring unnecessary, multimillion-dollar renovations of abortion clinics ruled unconstitutional, would have shuttered all but a few abortion clinics in the state September [...]
Louisiana Health Care Providers in Court to Protect Access to Safe, Legal Abortion Care
Louisiana Health Care Providers in Court to Protect Access to Safe, Legal Abortion Care Thousands of women to lose abortion access if law allowed to take effect on September 1 The Center for Reproductive Rights [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.