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Elizabeth Banks Helps Raise $2.7 Million for the Center for Reproductive Rights at 30th Anniversary Gala

10.26.22 (PRESS RELEASE) —The Center for Reproductive Rights raised $2.7 million Tuesday night at its 30th anniversary gala in New York, with special guest Elizabeth Banks. The event was held just four months after the [...]

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Georgia Abortion Providers Urge Court to Block Six-Week Abortion Ban at Trial

10.25.2022 (PRESS RELEASE) – This week, Georgia abortion providers and advocates went to trial, seeking to block the state’s ban on abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy. For more than three months, the ban [...]

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Comment to the Department of Veterans Affairs on Interim Final Rule on Reproductive Health Services

The Center submitted the comment in support of the rule.

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Citizen Petition to the FDA on the Use of Mifepristone for Miscarriage Management

The Center was one of 49 leading medical and scientific associations, research institutions, and advocacy organizations joining to submit this petition to the FDA on October 4, 2022. It requests that miscarriage management be added [...]

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Comment: Proposed Rule on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act

The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted this comment on October 3, 2022, to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in support of the proposed rule interpreting the non-discrimination provision of the Affordable Care [...]

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Lawsuit Filed to Restore Abortion Access in Arizona

10.4.22 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, an Arizona physician and the Arizona Medical Association filed a lawsuit in state court, asking the court to allow abortion care to resume through 15 weeks of pregnancy. The lawsuit [...]

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PAUL A. ISAACSON, M.D., and the ARIZONA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION v. STATE OF ARIZONA

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ACERWC Ruling in Legal and Human Rights Centre and Centre for Reproductive Rights v United Republic of Tanzania

On September 15, 2022, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) issued this decision, Communication No: 0012/Com/001/2019 Decision No 002/2022, in the case Legal and Human Rights Centre [...]

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ACERWC Recommends Tanzania Reform Education Policy That Violates Rights of Pregnant and Married Adolescent Girls

DAR-ES-SALAAM, Sept 18, 2022: Today, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC, also “the Committee”), found that the United Republic of Tanzania violated multiple human rights and gender [...]

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Federal Abortion Ban Proposed in Senate

09.14.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Yesterday, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Senator Graham has falsely claimed that the ban would put the U.S. in line with European countries. Statement [...]

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Call for Submissions: 2022 Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice

If/When/How, the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law and the Center for Reproductive Rights now invite submissions for the 17th annual Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights & Justice.

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Statement from Nancy Northup on the Biden-Harris Administration’s Announcement on Actions to Further Abortion Access

08.26.2022 — On Friday, August 26, the Biden-Harris administration announced further actions to implement President Biden’s Executive Orders on abortion access (EO 14076 and EO 14079). Statement from Nancy Northup, President & CEO of the [...]

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State Court Blocks North Dakota’s Trigger Ban

8/25/22 UPDATE: A state court in North Dakota has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the state’s trigger ban from taking effect while litigation proceeds. The ban was set to go into effect on August 26, [...]

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