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Tennessee’s Mandatory Waiting Period for Abortion: “Highly Insulting and Paternalistic”
Update: On 4/23/21, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the 48-hour mandatory waiting period, allowing it to take effect immediately in Tennessee. Patients at health centers at the time of the ruling [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO Today, in a deeply divided nation while an election is already underway, the U.S. Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court [...]
Center’s Legal Analysis Outlines Judge Barrett’s Extreme Record on Reproductive Rights
The Center concludes the SCOTUS nominee “stands all too ready, if not eager, to undermine women’s basic liberty rights.” The Center for Reproductive Rights has issued an analysis of the judicial rulings, writings and public [...]
Texas Ban on Standard Abortion Procedure Struck Down; Would Have Interfered with Doctors’ Judgment
Decision marks another win by the Center and its partners in striking down state abortion restrictions. UPDATE: On October 30, the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals announced that on its own initiative it has [...]
Federal Court Strikes Down Tennessee’s Forced Waiting Period for Abortions
The law forced patients to delay their abortion for at least 48 hours after receiving state-mandated biased counseling Today, a federal district court struck down a Tennessee law that forced patients to wait at least [...]
Texas Ban on Standard Abortion Procedure Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court
Fifth Circuit says a law prohibiting Texas doctors from using the standard abortion procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional In a victory for Texans, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals today struck [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Opposes Confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett
Judge Barrett has the most extreme anti-reproductive rights record since Judge Robert Bork. Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights For only the second time since our founding in 1992, the Center for [...]
Center Lawsuit Temporarily Blocks Tennessee’s Medication Abortion “Reversal” Law
2/26/21 Update: A federal court in Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction in this case to block Tennessee's law. Click here for more information on this ruling. Just one day before a Tennessee medication abortion “reversal” law was to [...]
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June Medical Services v. Russo
Ruling’s Impact on the Undue Burden Standard
A new report issued by the Center for Reproductive Rights analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in June Medical Services v. Russo, a leading abortion case brought by the Center.
Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Tennessee’s Medically Unsound Medication Abortion “Reversal” Law
Despite medical experts agreeing there is no evidence that a medication abortion can be “reversed,” politicians pushed harmful law in an attempt to force providers to lie to patients Yesterday, a federal district court in [...]
Statement: Judge Amy Coney Barrett Nominated to the Supreme Court
Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights on President Trump’s Nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court Just one week ago, the American people lost a champion of [...]
Causa Justa Lawsuit to Decriminalize Abortion in Colombia (Colombian Constitutional Court)
Colombia's Constitutional Court rules to decriminalize abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation.
Five North Carolina Abortion Restrictions Challenged in Lawsuit by the Center and Partners
Restrictions Disproportionately Harm Black People and People in Rural Areas The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners have filed a wide-reaching lawsuit challenging five North Carolina abortion restrictions that have stigmatized essential health care [...]
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