African American women are nearly four times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. Without healthy black mothers, there cannot be healthy black families and communities. “I was hurting so bad I didn't [...]

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 [...]

State Court Permanently Blocks Oklahoma’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Medication Abortion An Oklahoma state judge permanently blocked a state law restricting medication abortion today, ensuring women in the state will continue to have access to a [...]

New Resource Analyzes Major Policy Outcomes Impacting Texas Latinas in 84th Legislative Session The Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health have released a new resource which analyzes the major policy outcomes [...]

Hope for EACH Woman Bold new legislation in Congress would restore access to essential reproductive services for millions of women denied coverage. Five hundred dollars. That’s about what it costs for a woman to exercise [...]

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 [...]

Trends to Watch It’s mid-2015. Do you know where your reproductive rights are? A new briefing explains. In just the first six months of 2015, three separate anti-choice bills arrived on the desk of Montana [...]

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 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 [...]

A Vision of Health Many of the nation’s top reproductive rights voices convened in Washington, DC, to nourish our shared vision of reproductive health policy for the future. The audience clusters attentively around her as [...]