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O’Brien v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Complaint

The Center for Reproductive Rights has joined the City of Baltimore to defend a first-in-the-nation ordinance that demands truth in advertising from limited-service pregnancy centers. Those centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, are non-medical [...]

Abortion, Anti-Choice Harassment, Legal Restrictions, Biased Information, Censorship, Contraception, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Case Document

Fort Wayne Women’s Health v. Fort Wayne-Allen County Dept of Health: Complaint

A case challenging a county ordinance that allows for increased government access to confidential patient records and imposes a special set of stringent requirements on doctors who practice in Fort Wayne-Allen County, but live outside [...]

Abortion, Anti-Choice Harassment, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Case Document

Fort Wayne Women’s Health v. Fort Wayne-Allen County Dept of Health: Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction

A case challenging a county ordinance that allows for increased government access to confidential patient records and imposes a special set of stringent requirements on doctors who practice in Fort Wayne-Allen County, but live outside [...]

Abortion, Anti-Choice Harassment, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Case Document

Nova Health Systems v. Edmondson: Petition

The Center is challenging a newly enacted Oklahoma law which prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound, is shown the ultrasound image and listens to her doctor describe the [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts,Case Document

Citizens’s Petition (Supplement 2002): Food and Drug Administration

In 2001, the Center, along with the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and numerous women's health organizations, filed a Citizen's Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging the agency to switch emergency contraception drugs [...]

Legal Restrictions, Adolescent SRHR, Contraception, Emergency Contraception, Legal Restrictions,Case Document

Citizens’s Petition (Supplement 2001): Food and Drug Administration

In 2001, the Center, along with the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and numerous women's health organizations, filed a Citizen's Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging the agency to switch emergency contraception drugs [...]

Legal Restrictions, Adolescent SRHR, Contraception, Emergency Contraception, Legal Restrictions,Case Document

Citizens’s Petition: Food and Drug Administration

In 2001, the Center, along with the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and numerous women's health organizations, filed a Citizen's Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging the agency to switch emergency contraception drugs [...]

Legal Restrictions, Adolescent SRHR, Contraception, Emergency Contraception, Legal Restrictions,Case Document

Concluding Observations: Egypt_CEDAW_2009_English

In 2009, the Center, in collaboration with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) submitted a shadow letter to the CEDAW Committee highlighting Egypt’s failure to promote and protect women’s sexual and reproductive rights.  The [...]

Adolescent SRHR, Sex Education, Contraception, Discriminatory Policies, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality,Africa,At the United Nations,Documents

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

Hoye v. Oakland: Amicus Brief

In August 2009, the District Court for the Northern District of California upheld an Oakland, California city ordinance that creates a “bubble” zone" around reproductive health care facilities against a constitutional challenge by an anti-abortion [...]

Abortion, Anti-Choice Harassment,United States,In the Courts,Case Document

Concluding Observations: Ecuador_Human Rights Committee_2009_English

In 2009, the Center submitted a shadow letter to the Human Rights Committee on the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Ecuador.  The letter highlighted the failure of the government to protect girls against [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Adolescent SRHR, Sex Education, Contraception, Legal Protections, Discriminatory Policies, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,Latin America & Caribbean,At the United Nations,Documents

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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