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For First Time in NCLR’s History, Briefing on Reproductive Rights of Hispanic Women to be Held at Annual Conference

For the first time since the creation of the National Council of La Raza, two organizations focused on women's reproductive rights issues will host a briefing on the reproductive advancement of Latinas during La Raza's [...]

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Key Victory In Appeals Court Against 2003 Federal Abortion Ban

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held unconstitutional the "Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003," because the law failed to provide any exception if a woman's health is at stake. The [...]

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Law Endangering Young Women Challenged in Federal Court:

Health Care Providers Say Law Imperils Health and Lives of Florida’s Young Women Today on behalf of four women's health care centers and two individual physicians, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood Federation [...]

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Groups Ask Court to Block Abortion Ban

Leading Reproductive Health and Rights Groups Say Michigan Law Would Prohibit Virtually All Abortions in the State The American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America asked [...]

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Court Stops Virginia’s Third Attempt to Outlaw Safe Abortions

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit declared a Virginia abortion ban unconstitutional and held "the lack of a health exception alone provides a sufficient basis for invalidating restrictions on a woman's [...]

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Court Strikes Down Mississippi Abortion Law: Women in State Narrowly Escape Virtual Ban on Second Trimester Abortion

Today, women in Mississippi narrowly escaped a virtual ban on second trimester abortions in their state when the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi declared a 2004 law unconstitutional. The law would [...]

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Tulsa Clinic Challenges Teen Abortion Act as it Hits Governor’s Desk

Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, challenging teen abortion legislation that fails to protect the most vulnerable adolescents in the state. [...]

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Teen Endangerment Act: Putting Politics Before Teens’ Well-Being

Statement From Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights The Center for Reproductive Rights strongly opposes the abortion bill H.R. 748, passed by the House of Representatives today, and calls on the Senate to reject [...]

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FDA Commissioner Crawford, No More Stalling! Plan B Belongs On the Drugstore Shelves.

Statement from Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights The Center for Reproductive Rights urges the FDA's Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford to issue a decision making the emergency contraceptive Plan B available without a prescription [...]

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U.S. Government’s Appeal in Federal Abortion Ban Case Heads to Court for the First Time

WHAT: Oral argument in Carhart v. Gonzales will be heard at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.The Eighth Circuit will review the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska's decision on September [...]

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Alaska Supreme Court to Review Injunction on State’s Teen Abortion Law

WHAT: Oral arguments will be heard at the Alaska Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood of Alaska, et. al. v. State of Alaska. The Supreme Court will review the Superior Court of the State of Alaska's [...]

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Yet Another Excuse from the FDA on Delaying Plan B Decision

Statement from Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights Last week, Dr. Lester Crawford, the nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, gave yet another excuse for failing to make the emergency contraceptive, Plan [...]

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Statement from Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights

The Teen Endangerment Act The Center for Reproductive Rights urges Congress to reject the Teen Endangerment Act (H.R. 748, S. 8, 396, 403). The Center opposes the Teen Endangerment Act because its passage would not [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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