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2010 State Legislative Wrap Up
In the United States, state legislatures wield enormous power to control women’s access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare services. Each year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women’s access to abortion, including [...]
A First Look Back at the 2010 State Legislative Session
Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women's access to abortion, including mandatory delays, biased counseling provisions and other burdensome and unnecessary requirements. On average, more than six hundred bills are proposed [...]
Alaska Parental Notification Ballot Measure Hurts Teens
Today, the Center released a statement opposing Alaska Ballot Measure 2, a proposed mandatory parental notification law that would endanger teens. Alaskans go to the polls on August 24th to vote on the measure. Click [...]
Abortion: Parental Consent & Notification by State
Parental involvement laws require young women to obtain the consent of or notify one or both parents in order to obtain an abortion, forcing those who are unable to comply with the requirements to delay [...]
Planned Parenthood of Alaska v. Campbell
This was a pre-election challenge to a ballot measure in Alaska proposing a law to require notification of one parent of a minor, followed by a 48-hour delay, prior to the performance of an abortion. [...]
Activists Around the Country Aggressively Working to Criminalize Abortion and Reverse Roe, Since 2004, 17 States have considered 38 Abortion Bans
Center for Reproductive Rights Releases 2007 "What if Roe Fell?" Report, Groundbreaking Polling Shows A Majority of Americans Believe Roe is Vulnerable WASHINGTON, D.C.- According to legal analysis conducted by the Center for Reproductive Rights, [...]
Alaska Court Protects Young Women’s Right to Abortion
Parental Consent Law Struck Down On October 13, an Alaska state judge struck down a law that required young women under the age of 17 to obtain the consent of a parent or a judge [...]
Alaska’s Parental Consent Law Challenged in Superior Court
Anchorage, Alaska Trial began on Monday in a case brought by Alaska reproductive health service providers, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Anchorage law firm of Feldman & Orlansky, challenging Alaska's parental [...]
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Center and Partners Sue to Protect Abortion Access for Montanans on Medicaid
Lawsuit challenges new state rule that would effectively eliminate access to abortion care for Medicaid members.
Court Rules Native Hawaiian Midwives Can Resume Providing Care
In Center case defending reproductive autonomy, Court temporarily blocks law preventing traditional midwives from providing pregnancy and birth care in their communities.
U.S. Repro Watch, November 2
A new anti-abortion House speaker, Idaho dismisses concerns of pregnant women, a first-in-decades rise in U.S. infant deaths, and other news on U.S. reproductive rights.
Abortion Rights Defenders Shortlisted for European Parliament Prize for Freedom of Thought
The Center's statement of support for its partners Justyna Wydrzyńska of Poland, Morena Herrera of El Salvador, and Colleen McNicholas of the U.S.
U.S. Repro Watch, July 12
Iowa House passes six-week abortion ban, study finds rise in U.S. maternal mortality, and other top news on U.S. reproductive rights.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.