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Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Arizona Law Forcing Doctors to Lie to Women, Ensuring Law Will Never Take Effect

Federal District Court Ends Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Arizona Law Forcing Doctors to Lie to Women Ruling comes less than two months after nation’s highest court issues historic ruling reaffirming a woman’s constitutional right to [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on Texas to Abandon Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion

Center Calls on Texas to Abandon Latest Unconstitutional Attempt to Restrict Safe, Legal Abortion (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Center for Reproductive Rights has submitted comments to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in response [...]

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Alaska Supreme Court Overturns Parental Notice Law

Alaska Supreme Court Overturns Parental Notice Law Vulnerable teenagers relieved from additional burdensome hurdles. Ruling comes less than a month after nation’s highest court issues historic ruling reaffirming a woman’s constitutional right to safe, legal [...]

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Game Changer

What does our historic win at the Supreme Court mean for abortion access? Stephanie Toti, lead attorney in the case, breaks it down. To keep calm on the evening before the U.S. Supreme Court was [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Files New Lawsuit Challenging Every Abortion Restriction Passed in Louisiana This Year

Center for Reproductive Rights Files New Lawsuit Challenging Every Abortion Restriction Passed in Louisiana This Year Louisiana passes seven abortion restrictions this session, the highest number of any state in 2016. New filing comes four [...]

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June Medical Services v. Phillips

(REVISED 1.19.2022) - This lawsuit challenges seven abortion restrictions passed in Louisiana in 2016—including a measure that would triple the state's mandatory delay for women seeking abortion from 24 to 72 hours and a measure that bans the most common [...]

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Nancy Northup on PBS NewsHour

Nancy Northup on PBS NewsHour Watch Nancy Northup's appearance on the 6/27/16 episode of PBS NewsHour.

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Nancy Northup on All In With Chris Hayes

Nancy Northup on All In With Chris Hayes Watch Nancy Northup's appearance on the 6/27/16 episode of All In With Chris Hayes.

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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Nancy Northup on Maddow

Nancy Northup on Maddow Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic ruling strongly reaffirming abortion rights, Center for Reproductive Rights president and CEO Nancy Northup appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to discuss [...]

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Supreme Court Refuses to Review Mississippi’s Clinic Shutdown Law

Supreme Court Refuses to Review Mississippi’s Clinic Shutdown Law Last clinic in the state to remain open while legal challenge continues Order comes less than one day after nation’s highest court strikes down Texas’ clinic [...]

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U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Clinic Shutdown Law in Historic Victory for Women

U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Clinic Shutdown Law in Historic Victory for Women Clinics in Texas will remain open after high court rejects sham laws attacking constitutional right to legal abortion (PRESS RELEASE) – [...]

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Teresa Is Free

Teresa Is Free The Center generated international pressure to release another member of El Salvador’s wrongly imprisoned “Las 17.” Last week, 30-year-old Teresa held a photograph of her young son as she took the stand. [...]

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Arizona Governor Signs Measure Reversing Restrictions on Medication Abortion

Arizona Governor Signs Measure Reversing Restrictions on Medication Abortion Measure is intended to resolve legal challenges blocking restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) signed a measure into law late yesterday which effectively repeals [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.