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Medical Experts and Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit to Block New Arizona Abortion Ban
08.17.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, two Arizona physicians, the Arizona Medical Association, National Council of Jewish Women Arizona, and the Arizona National Organization of Women filed a lawsuit challenging two abortion restrictions passed in Arizona [...]
Appeals Court Upholds ‘Highly Insulting and Paternalistic’ Tennessee Abortion Law
08.05.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district court decision striking down a 48-hour mandatory waiting period for abortion in Tennessee. The Sixth Circuit had allowed the law to take effect in April 2021 on [...]
Statement: House Passes Spending Bill Without Helms Amendment
07.29.2021 Statement by Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: We applaud the House of Representatives on the historic passage of an appropriations bill that will significantly advance sexual and reproductive [...]
Lawsuit Filed to Stop Texas’ Radical New Abortion Ban
07.13.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, Texas abortion providers—led by Whole Woman’s Health—along with several abortion funds, practical support networks, doctors, health center staff, and clergy members filed a lawsuit to block a radical new Texas [...]
Appeals Court Affirms Decision Striking Down Unconstitutional Abortion Ban
06.16.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of people seeking abortion care in North Carolina, upholding a lower court’s decision to strike down an abortion ban. The law [...]
Hyde Amendment Omitted from President’s Budget for First Time in Decades
05.28.2021 Statement from Nancy Northup, president & CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: “Today’s release of President Biden’s budget proposal marks the first time in decades that a president has submitted a budget without the [...]
United States: On Anniversary of George Floyd’s Murder, the Focus on Systemic Racism as Human Rights Violations Must Continue
05.25.21 Statement by Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: One year ago today, the world witnessed the dehumanizing treatment and horrific murder of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer. This event confronted American society, once again, with the brutality of systemic racism. While this chapter of racial reckoning is still [...]
Supreme Court to Hear Abortion Ban Case Challenging Roe v. Wade
5.17.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Mississippi’s request to review a case challenging the state’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. These kind of bans on abortion prior to [...]
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Texas Passes Ban on Abortion at Six Weeks of Pregnancy
05.13.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Texas Senate passed a bill banning abortion as early as six-weeks of pregnancy—before many people even know they are pregnant. The bill also allows anyone – from local anti-abortion [...]
Statement from Lourdes Rivera, Senior Vice President of the Center for Reproductive Rights, on the Confirmation of Vanita Gupta for Department of Justice Associate Attorney General:
We congratulate Vanita Gupta on her historic confirmation as Associate Attorney General and are encouraged that a bipartisan majority of the Senate has recognized her robust record and experience as a civil rights attorney and [...]
Kansas Ban on Standard Abortion Method Struck Down as Unconstitutional
04.07.21 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, a Kansas state court permanently blocked the state’s ban on the standard method of abortion after approximately 14 to 15 weeks of pregnancy, a procedure known as D&E. The ruling comes after the Kansas Supreme Court recognized for the first time in 2019 that Kansans have [...]
Statement on the Release of the U.S. State Department’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, on the release of the U.S. State Department’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Today, Secretary of State Blinken affirmed what [...]
Court Blocks South Carolina Abortion Ban as Litigation Continues
Today, a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking a South Carolina law that would have banned abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many people know they’re pregnant. Instead of addressing [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
