Medical Emergency Exceptions to State Abortion Bans
Adkins v. State of Idaho
This case seeks to clarify and expand the medical exceptions to Idaho’s two abortion bans to ensure physicians can provide abortion care to preserve a pregnant person’s health and safety, including in cases of fatal fetal diagnoses.
Center Leaders in Latin America Discuss Mexico Ruling Decriminalizing Abortion
Historic decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice will increase abortion access nationwide and marks another victory for the Latin American Green Wave movement.
Medical Emergency Exceptions to State Abortion Bans
Blackmon v. State of Tennessee
This case challenges Tennessee’s total abortion ban as applied to pregnant people with emergent medical conditions.
Medical Emergency Exceptions to State Abortion Bans
Medical Emergency Exceptions to State Abortion Bans: Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma
Complaints filed to ensure pregnant people in dire situations can access abortion care and that doctors are given clarity on “medical emergency” exceptions in their state’s abortion bans.
Media Highlights: Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
Multiple outlets
Several leaders from the Center for Reproductive Rights have been interviewed about Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. Below are media highlights. “A federal judge suspends FDA's longtime approval of an abortion pill, but gives [...]
News Coverage: Texas District Court Ruling in Zurawski v. State of Texas
Multiple outlets
Judge Jessica Mangrum’s August 4 ruling on Zurawski v. State of Texas clarified the medical exception in the state’s abortion bans, enabling physicians to use their “good faith judgment,” in consultation with their pregnant patients, [...]
Women’s Stories in Center’s Texas Case ‘May Change the Abortion Narrative’
Boston Globe
Mary Ziegler writes in the Boston Globe about the power of the women’s testimony in the Center’s Zurawski v. State of Texas case.
News Coverage: Hearing in Zurawski v. State of Texas
Multiple outlets
View media highlights about the riveting testimony from women denied abortion care despite facing dangerous risks to their health, lives and future fertility.
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Manuela’s family needs El Salvador to ask for forgiveness
Limited Times
Despite a 2021 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Manuela v. El Salvador that established standards throughout Latin America to help protect women seeking reproductive health care, including abortion, the Limited Times [...]
Denied abortion for a doomed pregnancy, she tells Texas court: ‘There was no mercy’
NPR reported on the first day's hearing in Zurawski v. State of Texas on July 19. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of Texas women denied abortion care despite [...]
Tearfully testifying against Texas’ abortion ban, three women describe medical care delayed
The Texas Tribune gave signifcant coverage of the testimony given at a hearing in state court in Zurawski v. State of Texas on July 19. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf [...]
‘I now realize that I am not guilty, that I am just another victim’
El País
In a piece for El País, Fátima, a Guatemalan survivor of sexual violence, tells her story and explains her decision to seek justice by joining a Center case. Fátima's case against Guatemala is one of [...]
In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths
NPR
In "In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths," NPR features the stories of Texan mothers Samantha Casiano and Lauren Miller. Both women became plaintiffs in Zurawski v. Texas—the Center's case [...]
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Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
