European governments must ensure safe and timely access to abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic
Joint civil society statement The COVID-19 pandemic and public health crisis is presenting grave challenges for health care systems across Europe. As European countries work to address the pandemic, protect their populations, and meet [...]
5th Circuit Allows Texas to Continue Blocking Abortion Access During COVID-19 Pandemic
The court ruled that the district court was wrong to grant emergency relief that would allow all abortion care to continue in Texas. (PRESS RELEASE) Today, in a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the [...]
Abortion is Essential Health Care: Access is Imperative During COVID-19
Abortion is essential health care—this remains especially true during the current COVID-19 pandemic. This resource developed by the Center and the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health [...]
Court Blocks Oklahoma’s COVID-19 Abortion Ban
Federal court says Oklahoma abortion providers can resume care, blocking the state’s order to halt abortions during the pandemic (PRESS RELEASE) Today a federal district judge in Oklahoma granted a temporary restraining order at the [...]
5th Circuit Allows Gov. Abbott to Block Abortion Procedures During a Pandemic
This comes one day after federal district court blocks the order, allowing essential care Today, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals used an extraordinary measure to allow Gov. Greg Abbott to [...]
Oklahoma’s COVID-19 Ban on Abortion Challenged in Court
Emergency lawsuit filed against Oklahoma following state orders to stop abortion care during the pandemic Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Dechert LLP challenged an Oklahoma order effectively banning [...]
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Abortion Providers File Litigation in Four States To Protect Access to Essential Abortion Care
Filings Come in Response to Politicians Who Have Exploited COVID-19 Pandemic to Try to Ban Access to Abortion for More Than 10 Million Women of Reproductive Age Today, abortion providers in Alabama, Iowa, Ohio, and [...]
Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Abbott, et al.
(REVISED 4.22.2020) This litigation challenges actions taken by Governor Greg Abbott and other state officials to ensure that patients can continue to access essential, time-sensitive abortion services during the COVID-19 pandemic. While doctors and nurses in his state [...]
Anti-abortion Lawmakers Try—and Fail—to Co-opt Emergency Covid-19 Relief Package
Anti-abortion members of Congress again chose to play politics with women’s health care—this time by trying to hold up critical emergency funding for Covid-19 relief to expand the reach of the Hyde Amendment. Their efforts failed when both houses passed the relief bill without it. In a coronavirus rescue package that would [...]
Virginia Legislature Removes Medically Unnecessary Barriers to Abortion Access
Today, the Virginia General Assembly passed the Reproductive Health Protection Act, which will expand access to abortion care by repealing medically unnecessary restrictions that have made it difficult for Virginians to access safe and legal [...]
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