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Disability Rights Organizations Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Amici are the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. Amici address why constitutional protection for bodily autonomy is of vital importance to persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities have [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Takes Legal Action to Keep Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi Open
CRR Takes Legal Action to Keep Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi Open New federal lawsuit challenges unconstitutional state law designed to halt reproductive health services for all women in the state as of July 1 [...]
Stakes are High in Upcoming U.S. Supreme Court Case Challenging Mississippi Abortion Ban
In its brief filed in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Center highlights the consequences of banning abortion—as the reality of Texas’s recent ban already demonstrates.
Gender-Based Violence Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Amici are experts in law, social science, and advocacy supporting survivors of intimate partner violence. Mississippi’s abortion ban would disproportionately harm survivors of intimate partner violence, particularly survivors of color. Coerced pregnancy and forced childbearing [...]
Full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Rehear Mississippi Law Designed to Close Last Abortion Clinic
Full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Rehear Mississippi Law Designed to Close Last Abortion Clinic Last abortion clinic in the state to remain open while legal challenge continues (PRESS RELEASE) The full U.S. [...]
Puerto Rican Organizations Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Amici are Campaña Nacional Por El Aborto Libre, Segura y Accessible (National Campaign for Free, Safe and Accessible Abortion), and other Puerto Rican organizations. Amici argue that the Court’s precedent prohibiting pre-viability abortion bans is [...]
Mississippi Ban on Abortion After 15 Weeks of Pregnancy Struck Down by Federal District Court
Mississippi Ban on Abortion After 15 Weeks of Pregnancy Struck Down by Federal District Court State ban is found unconstitutional in a victory for the Center for Reproductive Rights and Jackson Women’s Health Organization (PRESS [...]
Reproductive Justice Organizations Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Amici are reproductive justice advocates and organizers including Mississippi in Action, Women With A Vision, Access to Reproductive Care - Southeast, and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda. The brief outlines [...]
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Roe at Risk: U.S. Supreme Court to Review Mississippi’s Abortion Ban, a Direct Challenge to Roe v. Wade
The Center for Reproductive Rights will return to the United States Supreme Court next term to defend the right to abortion, a right recognized in Roe v. Wade.
Global impacts of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and abortion regression in the United States
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
Six Center leaders representing regions around the world jointly wrote this commentary piece for Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters examining the global implications of the elimination of the constitutional right to abortion in the United [...]
Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice Advocates Amicus Brief in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
Amici include the Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU-Reproductive Freedom Project, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. As a result of the District Court’s decision, people across the country may be denied access to mifepristone, even [...]
Center and Ms. Magazine Examine the Future of U.S. Abortion Rights
“Beyond Roe: The Fight for Our Future” is a new multimedia platform featuring essays, video and a podcast examining a legal vision for defending, enforcing, and building abortion rights in the U.S.
Leading Organizations From 28 Countries Call on European Leaders to Act Now to Protect Access to Abortion
28 June 2022 - Following last week’s decision by the United States Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, today leading organizations, working to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights in over [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.