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June Medical Services v. Gee: Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

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June Medical Services LLC v. Gee: Complaint

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A Duty to Protect

The Zika outbreak threatens dire consequences in countries that have failed to prioritize women’s health and human rights. Katia lives in El Salvador, one of several Latin American countries where the government has advised women [...]

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Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt: SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES DECISION

On June 27, 2016, The U.S. Supreme Court issued a historic decision striking down a Texas law designed to shut down most of the state’s abortion clinics with medically unnecessary restrictions. The decision in Whole [...]

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Tools of Transformation

A Center-sponsored toolkit equips reproductive health advocates in the South with resources to confront the growing maternal health crisis for Black women. Across the United States, Black women die or suffer serious illness during and [...]

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A Punishing Year

Abandoning any pretense of protecting women, a new wave of abortion restrictions focus on shaming and criminalizing women and doctors. (Updated 8.4.16) More than a dozen abortion restrictions have been introduced so far this legislative [...]

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A Most Basic Right

A first-ever ruling from the UN’s principal human rights body calls for swift and comprehensive reform to Ireland’s merciless abortion laws. At 21 weeks pregnant, when Amanda Mellet was told the fetus she was carrying [...]

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Gainesville Woman Care LLC v. Florida: Bioethicists Amicus Brief

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

Gainesville Woman Care LLC v. Florida: NAF Amicus Brief

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Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt: Kansas Supreme Court Brief for Amicus Curiae ACOG in Support of Plaintiffs

Hodes &, Nauser v. Schmidt: Kansas Supreme Court Brief for Amicus Curiae ACOG in Support of Plaintiffs

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Decision: Amanda Mellet v. Ireland

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Gainesville Woman Care LLC v. Florida: Amicus Brief of Experts and Organizations Supporting Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, and Trafficking

           

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Not Okay in Oklahoma

The Center continues to challenge the state’s senseless assault on women’s reproductive health. When Laura, a college student in Oklahoma, found out she was pregnant, she knew immediately what she needed to do. “No question,” [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.