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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Paulina: Five Years Later (Spanish)
In 1999, 13-year-old Paulina Ramírez became pregnant after she was raped by an intruder in her home in Mexicali, Mexico. Soon after discovering that she was pregnant, Paulina sought an abortion. According to state legislation, [...]
Paulina: Five Years Later
In 1999, 13-year-old Paulina Ramírez became pregnant after she was raped by an intruder in her home in Mexicali, Mexico. Soon after discovering that she was pregnant, Paulina sought an abortion. According to state legislation, [...]
Legal Grounds: Reproductive and Sexual Rights in African Commonwealth Courts
Reproductive and sexual rights, which are guaranteed in international and regional human rights treaties, mean nothing if they are not recognized and enforced by national-level courts. Legal Grounds: Sexual and Reproductive Rights in African Commonwealth [...]
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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
