Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Full Fourth Circuit Decision https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2013-07-03-Baltimore-Full-Fourth-Circuit-Published-Authored-Opinion.pdf
(REVISED 5.23.2018) In 2007, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that a law challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights, which would have required minors under 17 to have parental consent or a court order to obtain an abortion, violated the right to privacy under the Alaska Constitution. In August 2010, Alaska voters passed an initiative […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_FH_poland_mother_daughter.jpg Pursuit of Justice The story of Polish daughter and mother P and S is deeply complicated. P, a teenager, was raped and became pregnant as a consequence. She wanted to terminate the pregnancy and had a right to under Poland’s laws. But powerful forces—doctors, judges, clergymen, and the police—bonded by a culture of hostility […]
Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of Mississippi Admitting Privileges Requirement State Department of Health will be barred from revoking clinic’s license based on admitting privileges pending outcome of federal lawsuit (PRESS RELEASE) A federal court ruled today that Mississippi state officials cannot enforce a requirement designed to shut down the state’s only reproductive health care provider […]
The Center challenged the medically unjustified requirements that were enacted in Mississippi in an attempt to make the state “abortion-free.” https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2013-04-15-MS-Preliminary-Injunction-Order.pdf
New Republic: Fetal-Heartbeat Abortion Laws Are Dangerous Even If Judges Reject Them By Molly Redden On March 6, the Arkansas legislature enacted the toughest abortion law in the nation, banning the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The accomplishment stood for all of 20 days before North Dakota, with a law Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed […]
Wall Street Journal: States Harden Views Over Laws Governing Abortion By Louise Radnofsky States are becoming increasingly polarized over abortion, as some legislatures pass ever-tighter restrictions on the procedure while others consider stronger legal protections for it, advocates on both sides say. In March, Arkansas passed a law prohibiting most abortions after 12 weeks of […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_FH_AR_3.7.13.jpg A Battle in Arkansas Yesterday, a legislature of extremists in Arkansas ignored the governor, ignored broad national support for the right to abortion, ignored the United States Supreme Court, ignored logic, and, most importantly, ignored a woman’s human right to make deeply personal decisions about her reproductive health care and her future. The cumulative […]
Documenting the Stakes in Mississippi https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_FS_lastclinic_film.jpg Our work at the Center for Reproductive Rights is founded on the irrefutable truth that a woman’s decisions about her health are personal and deeply private. Yet the vast majority of enacted legislation involving reproductive health care gives little, if any, consideration to the emotional capital or the very […]
Anti-choice License Plate Suspended https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_FS_NC_license_plate.jpg A federal court halted North Carolina’s offering of an anti-choice license plate to state drivers, according to a story in the Fayetteville Observer: “This court concludes … that the state’s offering of a Choose Life license plate in the absence of a pro-choice plate constitutes viewpoint discrimination in violation of […]