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Federal Court Permanently Strikes Down Coercive North Carolina Ultrasound Law as Unconstitutional

Federal Court Permanently Strikes Down Coercive NC Ultrasound Law as Unconstitutional Judge finds state law forcing narrated ultrasounds on women seeking abortion violates constitutional rights of women and their health care providers (PRESS RELEASE) A [...]

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Supreme Court Considers Massachusetts Law Securing Women’s Safe Entrance into Reproductive Health Care Facilities

Supreme Court Considers MA Law Securing Women’s Safe Entrance into Reproductive Health Care Facilities The Center for Reproductive Rights leads broad coalition 16 of civil rights groups in filing brief in support of state law [...]

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New Interactive Maps Detail Devastating Impact of Anti-Choice Legislation on Women Across the United States

New Interactive Maps Detail Devastating Impact of Anti-Choice Legislation on Women Across the U.S. State of the States report focuses on four of the most extreme and harmful trends in state abortion restrictions passed in [...]

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Supreme Court Refuses to Review Arizona Abortion Ban

Supreme Court Refuses to Review Arizona Abortion Ban Blatantly unconstitutional law banning abortions at 20 weeks remains permanently blocked by appellate court (PRESS RELEASE) The United States Supreme Court today refused to review an Arizona [...]

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House Subcommittee to Hear Testimony on Latest Attack on Reproductive Health Care Coverage

House Subcommittee to Hear Testimony on Latest Attack on Reproductive Health Care Coverage HR 7 would eliminate insurance coverage of abortion, disproportionately harming low-income women all across the country (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Subcommittee on [...]

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New Investigation Details Devastating Impact of Texas Family Planning Cuts on Latinas in the Rio Grande Valley

New Report Details Devastating Impact of Texas Family Planning Cuts on Latinas in Rio Grande Valley Clinic closures, high costs and lack of transportation cause widespread human rights violations (PRESS RELEASE) **Ver abajo para versión [...]

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Senate Committee Passes Appropriations Bills Promoting Equal Health Coverage for D.C., Peace Corps

Senate Committee Passes Appropriations Bills Promoting Equal Health Coverage for D.C., Peace Corps Center for Reproductive Rights applauds members of Senate Appropriations Committee, urges Congress to keep these critical advances intact through final passage (PRESS [...]

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Federal Judge in ND Blocks the Nation’s Earliest and Most Extreme Abortion Ban

Federal Judge in ND Blocks the Nation's Earliest and Most Extreme Abortion Ban Judge calls law banning abortion as early as six weeks “clearly invalid and unconstitutional” under U.S. Supreme Court precedent (PRESS RELEASE) A [...]

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TX Gov Signs Package of Harmful, Unconstitutional Measures to Make Abortion Practically Non-Existent

TX Gov Signs Package of Harmful, Unconstitutional Measures to Make Abortion Practically Non-Existent Provisions similar to the new Texas law have been challenged and blocked in other states (PRESS RELEASE) Governor Rick Perry signed into [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on House Appropriations Committee to Lift Ban on D.C. Using Local Funds to Provide Abortion Coverage for Low-Income Women

CRR Calls on House Committee to Lift Ban on D.C. Using Local Funds to Provide Abortion Coverage for Low-Income Women Current appropriations bill would continue to deny thousands of D.C. women comprehensive coverage for reproductive [...]

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Obama Budget Continues Discriminatory Restrictions on Abortion for Poor Women, But Takes Important Steps to Promote Equal Treatment for Peace Corps Volunteers and Women in D.C.

Obama Budget Continues Discriminatory Restrictions on Abortion for Poor Women (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights has voiced disappointment today with President Barack Obama's proposed FY2014 budget, which retains a ban on coverage for [...]

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Report on the United States’ Compliance with Its Human Rights Obligations In the Area of Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Health

The United Nations Human Rights Council has introduced a process designed to review countries’ compliance with human rights obligations as contained in (1) the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (2) the United Nations Charter, (3) [...]

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Sex Discrimination Continues in Florida After Court Refuses to Overturn Ban on Medicaid Funded Abortions

Low-Income Women’s Health Remains at Risk Continuing to put women's health at risk, Florida's Third District Court of Appeals issued an opinion today refusing to overturn Florida's ban on Medicaid funded abortions. The Center for [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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