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North Dakota Court Keeps Abortion Ban in Place for Now, Even for Those Facing Serious Health Risks
01.23.2024 (PRESS RELEASE) –Today, a North Dakota state court denied a request to block the state’s extreme abortion ban in situations where an abortion is necessary to preserve the life or health of a pregnant [...]
New Digital Tool Provides State-by-State Analysis of High Court Rulings on Abortion
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights tool features a user-friendly interactive map outlining each state high court's rulings and constitutional provisions.
More Women Denied Abortion Care Join Center’s Case Against Tennessee
Number of pregnant people harmed by U.S. state abortion bans continues to grow.
More Women Join Abortion Lawsuit Against Tennessee
01.08.24 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, four more women came forward to join a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights against the state of Tennessee (Blackmon v. State of Tennessee). The lawsuit, one of [...]
Plaintiffs’ Stories: Blackmon v. State of Tennessee
Stories of four Tennessee women—each denied abortion care after facing dangerous pregnancy complications—who joined this case as plaintiffs on January 8, 2024.
Idaho Court Rejects State’s Attempt to Throw out Case Brought by Women Denied Abortions
A case seeking to expand the medical exceptions in Idaho’s abortion bans will proceed despite the state’s attempt to dismiss the case
Medical Exceptions to U.S. State Abortion Bans: Cases and Complaints
Medical Exceptions to State Abortion Bans
Representing patients denied abortion care despite facing severe and dangerous pregnancy complications, the Center’s cases seek to clarify medical exceptions to U.S. state laws that have outlawed abortion and put people’s lives at risk.
Texas Emergency Abortion Case
Cox v. Texas: The Case in Depth
This is the first case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade filed on behalf of a pregnant woman seeking emergency abortion care.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Case That Threatens Access to Abortion Medication
Court agrees to review lower court ruling that attempted to reinstate burdensome restrictions on mifepristone.
Supreme Court Will Hear Case that Could Undermine Abortion Pill Access Nationwide
12.13.23 (PRESS RELEASE) — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a case that could ultimately eliminate access to mifepristone—one of two drugs used in medication abortion. The case was filed by an anti-abortion [...]
Texas Supreme Court Says Kate Cox Can’t Get An Abortion in Texas
12.12.2023—Late last night, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against a Texas woman with a lethal pregnancy diagnosis seeking access to an abortion in the state. “This ruling should enrage every Texan to their core. If [...]
Texas Woman Who Needs Emergency Abortion Forced to Flee State
12.11.2023 -- After a week of legal whiplash and threats of prosecution from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kate Cox has been forced to leave Texas to get healthcare outside of the state. Kate has [...]
Texas Emergency Abortion Case
Cox v. Texas
This is the first case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade filed on behalf of a pregnant woman seeking emergency abortion care.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
