(REVISED 03.21.2019) This lawsuit successfully challenged a regulation that would have prevented most low-income women in Alaska seeking medically necessary abortion services from receiving Medicaid coverage.  In 2001, the Alaska Supreme Court held that withholding [...]

Peace Corps volunteers risk their lives to serve, but Congress refuses to give them the same health coverage as other federal employees. When Peace Corps Volunteer Christine Carcano was raped during her service in Peru, [...]

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Challenges to Birth Control Benefits in Affordable Care Act Two for-profit companies, including arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, attempting to impose religious beliefs on female employees by refusing [...]

The Center filed a new case against Ireland to stop its health care system from turning its back on women in desperate need of help. It’s nearly impossible to go through this life and not [...]

Two More Texas Health Centers Forced to Close in Wake of Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Passed Last Summer Women in East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley face dire health care crisis (PRESS RELEASE) Whole Woman’s [...]

New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion Regulations would severely limit—if not outright ban—access to medication abortion, force doctors to ignore best medical practices (PRESS RELEASE) Women’s health care providers filed a federal [...]

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska Lawsuit seeks to immediately block new regulation that severely restricts abortion coverage through the state Medicaid program [...]

Federal Court Permanently Strikes Down Coercive NC Ultrasound Law as Unconstitutional Judge finds state law forcing narrated ultrasounds on women seeking abortion violates constitutional rights of women and their health care providers (PRESS RELEASE) A [...]

Supreme Court Considers MA Law Securing Women’s Safe Entrance into Reproductive Health Care Facilities The Center for Reproductive Rights leads broad coalition 16 of civil rights groups in filing brief in support of state law [...]

Supreme Court Refuses to Review Arizona Abortion Ban Blatantly unconstitutional law banning abortions at 20 weeks remains permanently blocked by appellate court (PRESS RELEASE) The United States Supreme Court today refused to review an Arizona [...]