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Women’s Health Experts from Kenya and Peru Speak out on the Impact of the Global Gag Rule

New Report Documents the Gag Rule’s Devastating Effects on Unsafe Abortion in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Peru At a breakfast briefing on October 22, women's health experts from Kenya and Peru will discuss the devastating [...]

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Alaska Court Protects Young Women’s Right to Abortion

Parental Consent Law Struck Down On October 13, an Alaska state judge struck down a law that required young women under the age of 17 to obtain the consent of a parent or a judge [...]

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Doctors and Counselors Fight Kansas Law that Violates Teens’ Rights to Confidential Health Care

Injunction Sought Against Kansas Reporting Law Physicians, social workers, nurses, psychologists and a sex ed teacher are asking a federal judge to prevent Kansas law enforcement officials from requiring health-care and counseling professionals to report [...]

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Center Vows to Challenge Unconstitutional Abortion Ban Inching Toward President’s Desk

House Passes Ban, Senate Expected to Move on Legislation After Recess The Center for Reproductive Rights is poised to challenge a dangerous ban on safe abortion procedures that is heading toward the President's desk. The [...]

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Unconstitutional Ban on Safe Abortion Procedures Heads Towards President’s Desk

Center for Reproductive Rights Prepares Court Challenge In the coming days, President Bush is expected to sign into law the first federal abortion ban in United States history. In conference last night, the House and [...]

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Indiana Supreme Court Expands Medicaid Funding for Abortion to Cases of Serious Risk to Women’s Health

Today, the Indiana Supreme Court, in a 3-2 vote, expanded the state's Medicaid coverage for a low-income woman's abortion to include cases when the pregnancy poses a serious and irreversible risk to her health. Prior [...]

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North Dakota Supreme Court Throws out Abortion-Breast Cancer Lawsuit Against Clinic

Today, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled that an anti-choice protestor had no right to use a false advertising law to harass the state's sole abortion clinic. The decision maintains a lower court ruling that [...]

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As Congress Moves to Pass Dangerous Abortion Ban, Center Prepares Court Challenge to Protect Women’s Health

Statement by Nancy Northup, President "Congress is on the eve of passing an unconstitutional and dangerous abortion procedures ban that will put the health of American women at risk by prohibiting doctors from performing the [...]

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Alabama Taxpayers Forced to Pay for State-Mandated, Ideological Materials on Abortion

Yesterday, a federal judge confirmed that the State of Alabama must pay for the production and distribution of materials that are mandated under the state's abortion waiting period law. The judge had previously ruled the [...]

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Abortion Providers Ask Appeals Court to Affirm Ruling Striking Down Florida’s Biased Counseling Law

On Wednesday, abortion providers will ask the Fourth District Court of Appeal to affirm a trial court ruling blocking enforcement of Florida's unconstitutional biased counseling law, which denies abortion providers the right to determine what [...]

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Young Mexican Rape Victim Speaks Out on Her 18th Birthday, Urging the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Formally Admit Her Case

Today, with the support of international human rights groups, Paulina, a young rape victim from Mexico, is asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to formally admit her legal petition so that negotiations can begin [...]

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Sex Discrimination Continues in Florida After Court Refuses to Overturn Ban on Medicaid Funded Abortions

Low-Income Women’s Health Remains at Risk Continuing to put women's health at risk, Florida's Third District Court of Appeals issued an opinion today refusing to overturn Florida's ban on Medicaid funded abortions. The Center for [...]

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Fifth Circuit Set to Hear Case Involving Prison Inmate Forced to Carry Pregnancy to Term

On Wednesday, the Center for Reproductive Rights will present oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a case involving a Louisiana woman who was forced to carry a pregnancy [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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