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Breaking: Slovakia’s Parliament Rejects Harmful Restrictions on Abortion Care

Today, the Slovak Parliament once again rejected pending legislation that would have introduced new regressive restrictions on women’s access to abortion care and subjected women to a series of harmful and medically unnecessary requirements prior [...]

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Update to the Report of the Center for Reproductive Rights on the Nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

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Federal Court Strikes Down Tennessee’s Forced Waiting Period for Abortions

The law forced patients to delay their abortion for at least 48 hours after receiving state-mandated biased counseling Today, a federal district court struck down a Tennessee law that forced patients to wait at least [...]

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Texas Ban on Standard Abortion Procedure Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

Fifth Circuit says a law prohibiting Texas doctors from using the standard abortion procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional In a victory for Texans, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals today struck [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Opposes Confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett

Judge Barrett has the most extreme anti-reproductive rights record since Judge Robert Bork. Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights For only the second time since our founding in 1992, the Center for [...]

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Report on the Nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

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Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Tennessee’s Medically Unsound Medication Abortion “Reversal” Law

Despite medical experts agreeing there is no evidence that a medication abortion can be “reversed,” politicians pushed harmful law in an attempt to force providers to lie to patients Yesterday, a federal district court in [...]

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Statement: Judge Amy Coney Barrett Nominated to the Supreme Court

Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights on President Trump’s Nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court   Just one week ago, the American people lost a champion of [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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Statement on the Death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights:  The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg marks the passing of a legal giant who devoted her life to advancing the liberty and equality of women, first as [...]

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The Undue Burden Standard after June Medical Services v. Russo

This report by the Center for Reproductive Rights analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June Medical Services v. Russo, a leading abortion case brought and won by the Center and decided in June 2020. The [...]

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Joint Civil Society Letter on Proposed Abortion Restrictions in Slovakia (Slovak Version)

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Joint Civil Society Letter on Proposed Abortion Restrictions in Slovakia (English Version)

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North Carolina Abortion Providers and Reproductive Justice Activists File Sweeping Litigation Challenging Multiple Abortion Restrictions

Restrictions disproportionately impact Black North Carolinians and people in rural areas Abortion providers in North Carolina and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective today filed litigation challenging several medically unnecessary abortion restrictions that have [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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