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A Crucial Option

A Crucial Option Medication abortion is safe, legal, and capable of revolutionizing reproductive health care. American women have been using legal medication abortion—an early abortion method that involves taking oral medication rather than having a [...]

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Burns v. Cline: Oklahoma Supreme Court Application and Petition

Burns v. Cline: Oklahoma Supreme Court Application to Assume Original Jurisdiction and Petition for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

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Burns v. Cline: Oklahoma Supreme Court Brief in Support of Application and Petition

Burns v. Cline: Oklahoma Supreme Court Brief in Support of Application to Assume Original Jurisdiction and Petition for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

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Beating Back the Bans

Beating Back the Bans Pre-viability bans on abortion are unconstitutional, unconscionable, and unwarranted. Knowing why is key to defeating them. Instead of improving women’s health in any manner, laws that ban abortion at 20 weeks [...]

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Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole: Petition for writ of certiorari

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Black Mamas Matter

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 [...]

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Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice v. Cline: District Court Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment

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Petition for Writ of Certiorari: Walker-McGill v. Stuart

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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Fighting for Girlhood

Fighting for Girlhood Child marriage violates the rights of millions across the world each year. But the UN just took notable steps to end its ravages. At age 15, Gita should have been cramming for [...]

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Hope for EACH Woman

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 [...]

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MKB Management Corp v. Burdick: Eighth Circuit Court Decision

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Trends to Watch

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 [...]

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Groundbreaking European Court of Human Rights judgment on access to prenatal testing and abortion

In a 2011 groundbreaking judgment, R.R. v. Poland, the European Court held that Poland’s failure to provide a woman timely access to prenatal genetic testing and information allowing her to make an informed decision about [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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