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Planned Parenthood of Montana; All Families Healthcare; Blue Mountain Clinic; Samuel Dickman, M.D.; and Helen Weems, APRN-FNP v. State of Montana, et al.

Case challenges a Montana administrative rule that would make it nearly impossible for Medicaid recipients to access abortion care in the state.

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Whole Woman’s Health Alliance v. FDA

Case filed on behalf of abortion providers in three states challenges FDA restrictions on mifepristone.

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No One Could Say: Accessing Emergency Obstetrics Information as a Prospective Prenatal Patient in Post-Roe Oklahoma

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Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA

This case filed by anti-abortion advocates challenging the FDA's approval of an abortion drug places medication abortion at risk across the U.S.

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Zurawski v. State of Texas

Seeking clarity to Texas's "emergency medical" exceptions under its extreme abortion bans.

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Legal Analysis: What Dobbs Got Wrong

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed nearly 50 years of precedent and, for the first time, eliminated a right grounded in personal liberty: the right to abortion. Its ruling in Dobbs v. [...]

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Case Backgrounder: Zurawski v. State of Texas

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Whole Woman’s Health v. Paxton (Texas)

When the U.S. Supreme Court took away the constitutional right to abortion on June 24, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton put out an advisory stating that the state’s trigger abortion ban, which bans abortion [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. State of South Carolina, et al. (South Carolina)

In this landmark ruling, the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed abortion as a protected privacy right under the state's constitution. The ruling, made January 5, 2023, permanently blocked the state's ban on abortion at approximately [...]

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Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice v. Drummond (Oklahoma)

On March 21, 2023, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution protects the right to abortion in life-threatening situations, but declined to rule whether its constitution protects a broader right to abortion outside [...]

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Access Independent Health Services, Inc., d/b/a Red River Women’s Clinic v. Drew H. Wrigley (North Dakota)

In a preliminary ruling on January 23, the state court denied the Center’s request for a preliminary injunction to prohibit enforcement of the state’s amended abortion ban against physicians who in their good faith medical judgment, and [...]

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Jackson Women’s Health et al. v. Dobbs (Mississippi)

Mississippi’s abortion “trigger” ban —which makes abortion illegal in the state except to save the life of the pregnant person, or in cases of rape or incest that have been reported to law enforcement—has been [...]

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June Medical Services v. Landry (Louisiana)

On June 27, 2022, three days after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed a lawsuit in the Civil District Court for the [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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