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A First Look Back at the 2010 State Legislative Session
Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women's access to abortion, including mandatory delays, biased counseling provisions and other burdensome and unnecessary requirements. On average, more than six hundred bills are proposed [...]
Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Denying Women Accurate Information About Pregnancy Options
Anti-choice groups have set up facilities all over the country with names like "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs), "pregnancy resource centers," or "pregnancy help centers." These facilities do not offer abortions, abortion referrals, or unbiased options [...]
Veto Letter to FL Governor Crist: Legislative Bill 1143
Dear Governor Crist, The Center for Reproductive Rights opposes House Bill 1143 and strongly urges you to veto this measure. House Bill 1143 would enact one of the most extreme ultrasound laws proposed in the [...]
Supreme Court Declines to Review Oklahoma “Choose Life” License Plates Case
Statement from the Center for Reproductive Rights New York, NY - Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to review Hill v. Kemp, a case which centers on a license plate program in Oklahoma which offers specialty [...]
Supreme Court Declines to Review Controversial Louisiana “Choose Life” License Plates Case
Statement from Nancy Northup, President of the Center for Reproductive Rights Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Keeler v. Stalder, a case that looked at whether states may issue specialty license plates with [...]
Discriminatory Oklahoma Law Put on Hold: State Agrees Not to Distribute “Choose Life” License Plate Proceeds
Tulsa State officials agreed not to distribute the proceeds from Oklahoma's "Choose Life" specialty license plates to anti-choice pregnancy counseling centers until July 1, 2005. The agreement was reached in connection with a lawsuit brought [...]
Florida Court Strikes Down Law Forcing Abortion Providers To Give Patients Harmful Information
West Palm Beach Today, the Fourth District Court of Appeals in Florida struck down an informed consent law, ruling it unconstitutional. The law would have forced abortion providers to communicate biased information to their patients.Currently, [...]
Lawsuit Filed Challenging Oklahoma’s “Choose Life” License Plate Legislation
Tulsa, OK Six Oklahoma motorists and an Oklahoma religious organization have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Oklahoma statutes regulating special license plates. In Oklahoma, motorists are able to obtain license plates proclaiming that [...]
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“Choose-Life” License Plate Scheme Halted in Louisiana
Federal Court Finds Louisiana's Specialty License Plates Unconstitutional New Orleans, LA Yesterday, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to end the production of all specialty license plates, including "Choose Life" plates, finding that the State’s specialty [...]
Argument Set for Court Challenge to Louisiana’s Speciality License Plates
New Orleans, LA Charging that Louisiana’s specialty license plates infringe upon First Amendment rights, the Center for Reproductive Rights will ask the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to stop production [...]
Abortion Clinic asks North Dakota Supreme Court to Affirm Ruling Rejecting Abortion-Breast Cancer Scare Tactic
In an argument before the North Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday, the Red River Women's Clinic will ask the State Supreme Court to affirm a lower court ruling rejecting the plaintiff's abortion-breast cancer scare tactic. [...]
Challenge to “Choose Life” License Plates Continues in Louisiana
Case Challenges Overall Policy for Issuing Specialty Plates Yesterday, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed an amended complaint challenging Louisiana's policy of issuing specialty license plates. The Center charges that Louisiana's specialty plates infringe on [...]
“Choose Life” License Plate Case Revived in Louisiana
Opens Challenge to Overall Policy for Issuing Specialty Plates New Orleans, LA In an unusual order issued yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit revived a challenge to the constitutionality of [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
