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Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi v. Slatery

(REVISED 2.24.2022) In this case, the Center challenged a Tennessee law requiring doctors to provide their patients with false and misleading information about “reversing” a medication abortion. Doctors would be forced to both lie to [...]

Abortion,United States,In the Courts,Case

A Decade of Existence: Revealing Progress, Reversals, and Betrayal of a National Compromise

 This report outlines recommendations for effective implementation of Article 26(4) of the Kenyan constitution, including services for access to safe abortion care.

Abortion, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality,Kenya,Reporting on Rights,Publications

Center Responds to Report from U.S. State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights has issued its official response to the Trump administration’s latest attempt to remove reproductive rights from the global human rights framework. A draft report released July 16 from the State [...]

Abortion,Engaging Policymakers,Publications

The Conflict in Northeast Nigeria’s Impact on the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women and Girls

Humanitarian Settings,Nigeria,Reporting on Rights,Publications

Violencia Reproductiva en el Conflicto Armado Colombiano

La decisión de ser o no ser madres no pertenece a ningún grupo armado, ni al Estado ni a nadie más que a sí mismas. Presentamos este informe sobre violencia reproductiva a la Comisión de [...]

Colombia,Reporting on Rights,Publications
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COVID-19 Litigation

The Center for Reproductive Rights has been working to protect access to abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic. We've filed several lawsuits challenging state orders to limit abortion access and have developed numerous resources addressing [...]

COVID-19,United States,In the Courts,Case

Memphis Center for Reproductive Health v. Slatery

(REVISED 2.24.2022) - In this case, the Center challenged a Tennessee bill that aims to prevent abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy and prevents pregnant people from obtaining abortion care for certain reasons, [...]

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

South Wind Women’s Center, et al v. Stitt, et al

(REVISED 01.04.2022) This lawsuit challenged an Oklahoma order effectively banning abortion care in the state. The March 24, 2020 order, issued by Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, required all [...]

Abortion,United States,In the Courts,Case

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Abbott, et al.

(REVISED 4.22.2020) This litigation challenges actions taken by Governor Greg Abbott and other state officials to ensure that patients can continue to access essential, time-sensitive abortion services during the COVID-19 pandemic. While doctors and nurses in his state [...]

Abortion, COVID-19,United States,In the Courts,Case

June Medical Services, LLC, v. Russo

In this major 2020 U.S. Supreme Court abortion case, the Court strikes down a Louisiana abortion restriction and affirms the strong legal standard used by courts for decades to determine the constitutionality of abortion laws.

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

Breaking Ground 2020: Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive Rights

Breaking Ground 2020: Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive Rights summarizes the jurisprudence from United Nations treaty monitoring bodies (TMBs) on reproductive rights, particularly the standards on reproductive health information and contraception, maternal health care, and [...]

Abortion, Contraception, Maternal Health,Accountability Bodies, United Nations,In the Courts, At the United Nations,Publications

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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