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Amy Coney Barrett Has Joined The Supreme Court. What Happens To Roe V. Wade Now?

ELLE interviews Center president and CEO Nancy Northup on the effects the new Supreme Court Justice's "extreme record" and "vitriolic public advocacy" may have on abortion care and women's health.

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‘Give women options’: Advocates push for decriminalization of abortion

Rappler reports on a panel on abortion rights in the the Philippines featuring Center senior legal advisor Jihan Jacob: "if the government denies women's access to abortion, 'we're also violating their fundamental human rights.'"

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Center’s Concerns About Judge Barrett’s Reproductive Rights Views “Further Intensified” After Committee Testimony

Updated Report Examines the SCOTUS Nominee’s Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee The Center for Reproductive Rights has issued an updated report after analyzing Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee October [...]

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Body On the Ballot: How the 2020 Presidential Election Impacts You

Shape quotes the Center's Elisabeth Smith on the potential for damage to women's health and finances if the Affordable Care Act is struck down.

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El Centro celebra la resolución histórica de la ONU para la protección de los derechos humanos de mujeres y niñas en crisis humanitarias

El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos reconoce la adopción, por consenso en Ginebra, de la resolución del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas (CDH) titulada "Promoción, protección y respeto del pleno disfrute de los [...]

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Center’s Legal Analysis Outlines Judge Barrett’s Extreme Record on Reproductive Rights

The Center concludes the SCOTUS nominee “stands all too ready, if not eager, to undermine women’s basic liberty rights.” The Center for Reproductive Rights has issued an analysis of the judicial rulings, writings and public [...]

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Texas Ban on Standard Abortion Procedure Struck Down; Would Have Interfered with Doctors’ Judgment

Decision marks another win by the Center and its partners in striking down state abortion restrictions. UPDATE: On October 30, the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals announced that on its own initiative it has [...]

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How Abortion Ends Without Overturning Roe v. Wade

Writing in Gen, Andrea González-Ramírez quotes Amy Myrick, senior staff attorney at the Center, in an analysis of possible future developments in U.S. abortion law.

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What could the addition of Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court mean for women’s reproductive rights?

NBC News interviews Center president and CEO Nancy Northup on the Supreme Court nominee's potential impact on reproductive rights.

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Center Applauds UN’s Adoption of Landmark Resolution on Women’s and Girls’ Human Rights in Humanitarian Situations

Resolution calls for promoting, protecting and respecting women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of human rights in humanitarian situations The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (HRC) adoption by consensus in [...]

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Amy Coney Barrett’s record of advocating for limits to abortion rights

CNN Supreme Court reporter Ariane de Vogue quotes Center president and CEO Nancy Northup in an analysis of the Supreme Court nominee's judicial record.

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Center Lawsuit Temporarily Blocks Tennessee’s Medication Abortion “Reversal” Law

2/26/21 Update: A federal court in Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction in this case to block Tennessee's law. Click here for more information on this ruling.  Just one day before a Tennessee medication abortion “reversal” law was to [...]

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Ruling’s Impact on the Undue Burden Standard

A new report issued by the Center for Reproductive Rights analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in June Medical Services v. Russo, a leading abortion case brought by the Center.

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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