This case challenged a “TRAP” law passed by the Arizona Legislature in 1999. In 2010, after years of negotiations, the Center for Reproductive Rights and the state agreed to significant changes to the regulations. The result of that settlement, along with a 2004 appellate court decision, have resulted in considerably less intrusive requirements for abortion […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AZ_homepage-3.jpg 05.07.10 – Earlier today, a longtime legal challenge against a 1999 Arizona law regulating abortion providers has come to a close and a 10-year stay blocking the law’s enforcement has been lifted by the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. After years of negotiations, the Center for Reproductive Rights and the state […]
The Center successfully defended WomensCare Gynecology, a Bridgeton, MO based abortion clinic, in state district court against a claim that the clinic is seeking to violate a protestor’s First Amendment rights. Filing Date: The case was originally filed on January 26, 2009, but the Center did not begin working on the case until April 2010. […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, Dr. LeRoy Carhart, a Nebraska abortion provider, issued a statement regarding the two abortion bills signed into law yesterday by Governor Dave Heineman. One law bans abortion after 20-weeks of pregnancy. The other requires doctors to perform extensive screenings of women for any “risk factors” before providing an abortion. “I am extremely […]
This morning, the Nebraska state legislature approved the most extreme state law in recent history. The law (LB 1103) would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. And yesterday, the legislature passed another extreme abortion restriction (LB 594)—the first-of-its-kind— which requires doctors to perform extensive screenings of women for any “risk factors” before providing an […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2014-07-23-at-2.28.26-PM.png Women’s reproductive rights are essential to realizing a wide range of fundamental human rights. In particular, women’s lives, liberty and security, heath, autonomy, privacy, equality and non-discrimination and education, among others, cannot be protected without ensuring that women can determine when, how and whether to bear children, control their bodies and sexuality, access essential […]
In August 2009, the District Court for the Northern District of California upheld an Oakland, California city ordinance that creates a “bubble” zone” around reproductive health care facilities against a constitutional challenge by an anti-abortion protestor. The protestor, Walter Hoye, had been arrested for violating the ordinance, he challenged the Oakland law principally on the […]
Alicja Tysiąc, a Polish woman, was suffering from severe myopia. Pregnant for the third time, she consulted three ophthalmologists who concluded that carrying the pregnancy to term constituted a serious risk to her eyesight. While they all refused to issue a referral for abortion, which is required under Polish law, a general practitioner finally provided […]
In 2009, the Center submitted a shadow letter to the CEDAW Committee on the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Egypt, in preparation for the Committee’s review of Egypt at its 45th session. The shadow letter highlighted areas of concern, including: high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, the prevalence of unsafe abortion, lack […]
By Robin Marty “When trying to understand the latest in reproductive health on a state by state basis, there are various places a person can look: local pro-life and pro-choice organizations, news feeds, activists on either side. But to follow the latest in women’s health care in the state of Oklahoma, you’re better off if […]