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Andorra: Acquittal of Human Rights Defender Vanessa Mendoza Cortes  

01.17.24 (PRESS RELEASE, GENEVA) - Amnesty International, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Women’s Link Worldwide and Front Line Defenders welcome today’s court decision acquitting human rights defender Vanessa Mendoza Cortés, President of the women’s rights [...]

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Center Clients Featured on ABC News Special

Diane Sawyer and Rachel Scott interview women denied abortion care and report on the dire impact of abortion bans on pregnant people and physicians.

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More Women Join Abortion Lawsuit Against Tennessee

01.08.24 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, four more women came forward to join a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights against the state of Tennessee (Blackmon v. State of Tennessee). The lawsuit, one of [...]

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Supreme Court Says Idaho Hospitals Don’t Have to Provide Emergency Abortions Under Federal Law, for Now

High Court reinstates Idaho abortion ban despite federal law requiring hospitals to stabilize patients in emergency rooms; the Court will hear the case in full this April

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Idaho Court Rejects State’s Attempt to Throw out Case Brought by Women Denied Abortions

A case seeking to expand the medical exceptions in Idaho’s abortion bans will proceed despite the state’s attempt to dismiss the case

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News Coverage: Cox v. Texas

Press release: Texas Supreme Court Says Kate Cox Can’t Get An Abortion in Texas, 12.12.23 Press release: Texas Woman Who Needs Emergency Abortion Forced to Flee State, 12.11.23 Press release: Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Halts [...]

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Polish Government Has a Momentous Opportunity to End Reproductive Rights Violations and Protect Women’s Health During Pregnancy

Decision-makers must take urgent steps to repeal the near total ban on abortion.

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Supreme Court Will Hear Case that Could Undermine Abortion Pill Access Nationwide

12.13.23 (PRESS RELEASE) — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a case that could ultimately eliminate access to mifepristone—one of two drugs used in medication abortion. The case was filed by an anti-abortion [...]

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Texas Supreme Court Says Kate Cox Can’t Get An Abortion in Texas

12.12.2023—Late last night, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against a Texas woman with a lethal pregnancy diagnosis seeking access to an abortion in the state. “This ruling should enrage every Texan to their core. If [...]

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Texas Woman Who Needs Emergency Abortion Forced to Flee State

12.11.2023 -- After a week of legal whiplash and threats of prosecution from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kate Cox has been forced to leave Texas to get healthcare outside of the state. Kate has [...]

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Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Ruling That Allowed Pregnant Woman to Have Emergency Abortion  

12.08.2023 -- Late tonight, the Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a lower court ruling that would have allowed Kate Cox, a Dallas woman with severe pregnancy complications, to have an abortion to protect her health [...]

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Texas Court Rules in Favor of Pregnant Woman Seeking an Emergency Abortion

12.07.2023 -- Today, a Texas state court has granted the request of a woman with severe pregnancy complications, Kate Cox, to have an abortion to protect her life, health and future fertility. Kate had been [...]

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Texas Woman Asks Court for an Emergency Abortion

12.05.23 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed an emergency lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman in Texas, Kate Cox, who needs urgent abortion care due to a lethal fetal diagnosis [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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