New York State Senate Passes Legislation to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes Action is still needed in the New York State Assembly to authorize a statewide maternal mortality review board (PRESS RELEASE) Yesterday, the New York [...]

(GENEVA) The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes today’s recognition by the UK Supreme Court that Northern Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion law contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights. Although for procedural reasons the Court did [...]

Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Trump Administration’s Attack on Title X Family Planning Program (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights denounced the Trump administration’s latest move to block women’s access to critical health [...]

Louisiana Lawmakers Attack Reproductive Rights with Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban (PRESS RELEASE) Louisiana is on track to adopting one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws—an unconstitutional ban on abortion after 15 weeks. After passing the [...]

Please note: This case has advanced to the U.S. Supreme Court under the case name Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The case was argued at the Court on December 1, 2021 and the Court [...]

The Center for Reproductive Rights, the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &, Garrison LLP, Mississippi civil rights attorney Robert B. McDuff, and the Mississippi Center for Justice brought a challenge in Jackson, Mississippi against a regime [...]

Center for Reproductive Rights Announces Challenge to Dozens of Abortion Restrictions in Mississippi Challenge builds on and expands Center for Reproductive Rights’ recent lawsuit against state’s unconstitutional 15-week abortion ban (PRESS RELEASE)  The Center for [...]

Federal Court Rejects Bid to Halt Center for Reproductive Rights Lawsuit Against Louisiana Abortion Restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) – A Louisiana federal court today rejected the state’s efforts to shut down litigation brought by the Center [...]

Kenya’s High Court Rules in Favor of Woman Physically Abused During Delivery (PRESS RELEASE) A pregnant woman who was unlawfully physically and verbally abused by hospital staff and deliberately left to deliver on the floor, [...]

Federal District Court Temporarily Blocks Mississippi’s Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban in Response to Center (MEDIA ADVISORY) Today, a federal judge in Mississippi issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state’s unconstitutional ban on abortion after 15 [...]