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U.S. Senate Defeats Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding
U.S. Senate Defeats Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding (PRESS RELEASE) Pro-choice Senators blocked attempts to advance a measure today which would have stripped Planned Parenthood of all federal funding dedicated to [...]
Federal Appeals Court Permanently Blocks Most Extreme Abortion Ban in the U.S.
Federal Appeals Court Permanently Blocks Most Extreme Abortion Ban in the U.S. Eighth Circuit strikes down North Dakota’s ban on safe, legal abortion as unconstitutional (PRESS RELEASE) After permanently striking Arkansas’s ban on safe and [...]
Seventy-One Human Rights Organizations Call on President Obama to End Unnecessary Reproductive Health Restrictions That Harm Women
71 Human Rights Organizations Ask President Obama to End Unnecessary Reproductive Health Restrictions That Harm Women (PRESS RELEASE) As President Obama makes official visits to Kenya and Ethiopia this week, a broad-based coalition of leading [...]
Ignoring Objections of Major Medical Groups, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Signs Cruel Ban on Abortion at 20 Weeks of Pregnancy
Ignoring Objections of Major Medical Groups, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Signs Cruel Ban on Abortion at 20 Weeks (PRESS RELEASE) Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed a measure into law today which bans safe and legal abortion [...]
Mandatory Delays and Junk Science Among New Abortion Restrictions in 2015
Mandatory Delays and Junk Science Among New Abortion Restrictions in 2015 New policy brief details troubling trends in abortion restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) Anti-choice politicians in states across the U.S. have continued to pass harmful restrictions [...]
Congresswomen Introduce Historic Bill to Ensure Coverage of Abortion Services for All Women
Congresswomen Introduce Historic Bill to Ensure Coverage of Abortion Services for All Women EACH Woman Act would restore abortion coverage to millions, regardless of income, insurance plan, or zip code (PRESS RELEASE) Congresswomen Barbara Lee [...]
State Court Blocks Florida Law That Forces Mandatory Delay, Additional Visits for Women Seeking Safe, Legal Abortion
State Court Blocks Florida Law That Forces Mandatory Delay, Additional Visits for Women Seeking Safe, Legal Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) A state court judge today blocked a recently passed Florida measure forcing a woman to wait [...]
Supreme Court Steps In to Protect Abortion Access in Texas
Supreme Court Steps In to Protect Abortion Access in Texas Nation’s highest court blocks 5th Circuit ruling that would have shuttered all but 9 clinics in the state (PRESS RELEASE) In a 5-4 order, the U.S. [...]
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Federal Court Blocks Tennessee’s Clinic Shutdown Law
Federal Court Blocks Tennessee’s Clinic Shutdown Law Measure would have forced two more clinics in the state to close (PRESS RELEASE) A federal district court judge today blocked a Tennessee measure which forces reproductive health [...]
Nation’s Highest Court Rules for Marriage Equality Across U.S.
Nation’s Highest Court Rules for Marriage Equality Across U.S. Supreme Court strikes down state bans on same-sex marriage as violation of constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment (PRESS RELEASE) The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled [...]
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure reproductive rights are guaranteed in law as human rights, announced [...]
State Court Blocks Kansas Law Criminalizing Doctors for Providing Safe, Common Abortion Method
State Court Blocks Kansas Law Criminalizing Doctors for Providing Safe, Common Abortion Method (PRESS RELEASE) Earlier today, a state court judge blocked a Kansas law banning the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy [...]
New Lawsuit Challenges Three Tennessee Laws that Threaten to Close Abortion Clinics, Force Women to Delay Care
New Lawsuit Challenges Three Tennessee Laws that Threaten to Close Abortion Clinics, Force Women to Delay Care Texas-style clinic shutdown laws would further devastate abortion access in Tennessee, across the South (PRESS RELEASE) The Center [...]
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Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
