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Alaska’s Parental Consent Law Challenged in Superior Court
Anchorage, Alaska Trial began on Monday in a case brought by Alaska reproductive health service providers, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Anchorage law firm of Feldman & Orlansky, challenging Alaska's parental [...]
Alaska Court Protects Young Women’s Right to Abortion
Parental Consent Law Struck Down On October 13, an Alaska state judge struck down a law that required young women under the age of 17 to obtain the consent of a parent or a judge [...]
Law and Policy Guide: Adolescents
← Return to the full Law and Policy Guide and the World's Abortion Laws Map Adolescents often face a range of barriers when accessing abortion services, such as cost, stigma, lack of confidentiality, and misinformation [...]
Landmark Cases
Since its founding in 1992, the Center has shaped legal precedent on reproductive rights through victories in regional, federal and local courts around the world, as well at the United Nations, and has been involved [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Attorney Confirmed to Federal Bench
06.20.23 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, in a bipartisan vote, the U.S. Senate confirmed Julie Rikelman as a judge to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She will be the first Jewish woman [...]
Center and Partners Sue to Protect Abortion Access for Montanans on Medicaid
Lawsuit challenges new state rule that would effectively eliminate access to abortion care for Medicaid members.
Law and Policy Guide: Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Quality Framework
← Return to the full Law and Policy Guide and the World's Abortion Laws Map The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR Committee) has set forth four essential elements of the right to [...]
Court Protects Abortion Access for Low-Income Women in Alaska
Court Protects Abortion Access for Low-Income Women in Alaska (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Alaska Superior Court struck down a state law and Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) regulation that would have severely limited [...]
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State Constitutions and Abortion Rights
How cases in state supreme courts can offer stronger and expanded legal grounds for protecting abortion rights.
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands vs. State of Alaska
(REVISED 8.25.2017) This case is a challenge to medically unnecessary Alaska restrictions, passed more than 40 years ago, that ban abortion in outpatient health centers after the first trimester of pregnancy. The restrictions force many women [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, ACLU File Challenges to Abortion Restrictions in Three States
Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, ACLU File Challenges to Abortion Restrictions in Three States Women’s health organizations take fight against unconstitutional measures to state, federal courts (PRESS RELEASE) Abortion rights groups today announced a [...]
June Medical Services v. Russo
Thousands Rally at U.S. Supreme Court for Reproductive Rights
Rally held while inside the Supreme Court, the Center argues the June Medical Services v. Russo abortion case.
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, July 2022)
This Center report provides detailed analysis of state high court cases litigated by the Center that built strong protections for abortion rights and access using personal autonomy, privacy, and equality frameworks prior to the Dobbs [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
