Nancy Northup Talks Texas with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes The morning after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction, shuttering all but eight of Texas’s abortion clinics overnight, Nancy Northup appeared on MSNBC’s All [...]

Texas Health Care Providers Take Fight for Abortion Access to U.S. Supreme Court Texas women facing devastating loss of constitutionally protected health care (PRESS RELEASE) Following a decision Thursday from the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

New Lawsuit Challenges Unconstitutional Oklahoma Abortion Restrictions Law Threatens to Reduce Access to Safe, Legal Abortion in Region Already Devastated by Similar Restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a new lawsuit in state [...]

Fifth Circuit Greenlights Texas Law Which Will Immediately Shutter All But Seven Abortion Clinics in the Entire State Nearly One Million Texas Women Now Face Minimum of 300 Mile Roundtrip to Access Constitutionally Protected Health [...]

New Lawsuit Seeks to Block Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion in Oklahoma Legal challenge filed less than a year after state courts permanently struck down similar measure as unconstitutional (PRESS RELEASE) Women’s health care providers filed [...]

Forced Sterilization in Chile Francisca, a young Chilean woman, describes the day her only son was born as the worst and the best day of her life. The best—for obvious reasons. The worst—for reasons almost too [...]

In 2013, Kansas passed a law containing more than a dozen harmful measures, including redefining what constituted a medical emergency in a way that would have required many pregnant women in life-threatening situations to wait [...]

(REVISED 6.2.2016) In 2013, North Dakota passed a blatantly unconstitutional ban on pre-viability abortion that would prohibit abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.  Physicians violating the ban would face up to five [...]

(REVISED 10.25.2022) This case was a challenge to a 12-week abortion ban passed by the Arkansas Legislature in 2013. The law required that a doctor perform an ultrasound prior to terminating a pregnancy and attempt [...]

(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 [...]