European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview
Get an overview of abortion laws and policies in all 47 European countries (updated September 2023).
Abortion Rights Are Advancing Across the Globe
A supplement to the Center's World’s Abortion Laws Map, this report outlines trends in the liberalization of abortion laws over the last 30 years. You’ll see the 60+ countries that have liberalized their abortion laws [...]
Report: Legal and Human Rights Centre and Center for Reproductive Rights (on behalf of Tanzanian girls) v. The United Republic of Tanzania
In June 2019, the Legal and Human Rights Centre and Center for Reproductive Rights filed a case against the United Republic of Tanzania before the African Committe of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of [...]
Maputo Protocol at 20: Progress on Abortion Rights in Africa
Reporting on the progress of this historic human rights instrument to explicitly guarantee the right to legal abortion in Africa.
Dobbs’s Destructive Originalism: Using “History and Tradition” to Undermine Liberty
This analysis by the Center explains the Dobbs majority’s approach to determining what liberty interests the Fourteenth Amendment protects; considers the ways in which the U.S. Supreme Court has previously assessed protected liberty interests; and [...]
Planned Parenthood of Montana; All Families Healthcare; Blue Mountain Clinic; Samuel Dickman, M.D.; and Helen Weems, APRN-FNP v. State of Montana, et al.
Case challenges a Montana administrative rule that would make it nearly impossible for Medicaid recipients to access abortion care in the state.
Care in Crisis: Failures to guarantee the sexual and reproductive health and rights of refugees from Ukraine in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia
The Center for Reproductive Rights and eight partner organizations documented the gaps and barriers in access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and gender-based violence support services that are faced by refugees from Ukraine in Hungary, [...]
Whole Woman’s Health Alliance v. FDA
Case filed on behalf of abortion providers in three states challenges FDA restrictions on mifepristone.
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Nationwide Threat to Medication Abortion
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
This case filed by anti-abortion advocates challenging the FDA's approval of an abortion drug places medication abortion at risk across the U.S.
Texas Abortion Ban Emergency Exceptions Case
Zurawski v. State of Texas
Seeking clarity to Texas's "emergency medical" exceptions under its extreme abortion bans.
Legal Analysis: What Dobbs Got Wrong
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed nearly 50 years of precedent and, for the first time, eliminated a right grounded in personal liberty: the right to abortion. Its ruling in Dobbs v. [...]
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