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House Appropriations Committee Approves Abortion Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers

House Appropriations Committee Approves Abortion Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers In passing an amendment offered by Rep. Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Committee follows Senate’s lead and grants Peace Corps Volunteers abortion coverage in cases of [...]

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Senate Committee Passes Appropriations Bill Promoting Equal Health Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers

Senate Committee Passes Appropriations Bill Promoting Equal Health Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers Center for Reproductive Rights applauds Senate Appropriations Committee for passing bill permitting abortion coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers in the cases of [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights, American Constitution Society Honor UCLA Student Leaders

Center for Reproductive Rights, American Constitution Society Honor UCLA Student Leaders (PRESS RELEASE) The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), in partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights, will present the second annual [...]

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Louisiana Governor Jindal Signs Law Designed to Shutter Reproductive Health Clinics

Louisiana Governor Jindal Signs Law Designed to Shutter Reproductive Health Clinics Politicians continue to ignore expertise and counsel of medical community, deny women seeking to end a pregnancy safe, legal, high-quality care (PRESS RELEASE) Louisiana [...]

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Texas Abortion Providers’ Admitting Privileges Reinstated in Lawsuit Settlement

Texas Abortion Providers’ Admitting Privileges Reinstated in Lawsuit Settlement After filing a lawsuit earlier this year against University General Hospital Dallas (UGHD), two Texas physicians who had their admitting privileges arbitrarily and unexpectedly revoked have [...]

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9th Circuit Court of Appeals Protects Arizona Women’s Access to Non-Surgical Abortion

9th Circuit Court of Appeals Protects Arizona Women’s Access to Non-Surgical Abortion Regulations deemed “unconstitutional” and a “burden on women’s access to abortion” (PRESS RELEASE) In a unanimous opinion issued this morning, the U.S. Court [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Commemorates Work and Legacy of Dr. George Tiller

Center for Reproductive Rights Commemorates Work and Legacy of Dr. George Tiller (PRESS RELEASE) On the fifth anniversary of the murder of the Kansas reproductive health care provider Dr. George Tiller at the hands of [...]

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Oklahoma Governor Fallin Signs Law Designed to Shutter Reproductive Health Clinics

Oklahoma Governor Fallin Signs Law Designed to Shutter Reproductive Health Clinics Politicians continue to ignore expertise and counsel of state and national medical community, deny women seeking to end a pregnancy safe, legal, high-quality care [...]

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Playing Politics with Women’s Health: U.S. Senator Pits Women’s Health Protection Act Against Nationwide Abortion Ban

Playing Politics with Women’s Health: U.S. Senator Pits Women’s Health Protection Act Against Nationwide Abortion Ban (PRESS RELEASE) Today Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is expected to try to force a vote on his unconstitutional, nationwide [...]

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New Study Documents the Human Toll of Unequal Abortion Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers

New Study Documents the Human Toll of Unequal Abortion Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers Report released as Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and advocates head to Capitol Hill to call for immediate change in federal policy [...]

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Minnesota Court of Appeals Protects Insurance Coverage for Low-Income Women

Minnesota Court of Appeals Protects Insurance Coverage for Low-Income Women Decision affirms over 20 years of state Supreme Court precedent (PRESS RELEASE) The Minnesota Court of Appeals today upheld a district court decision which dismissed [...]

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Fifth Circuit Considers Mississippi Law Designed to Shutter Last Clinic in the State

Fifth Circuit Considers Mississippi Law Designed to Shutter Last Clinic in the State Three-judge panel will hear arguments on preliminary injunction currently blocking the state’s admitting privileges requirement (PRESS RELEASE) Today a three-judge panel for [...]

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Mississippi Governor Bryant Signs Dangerous and Unconstitutional Ban on Abortion

Mississippi Governor Bryant Signs Dangerous and Unconstitutional Ban on Abortion Center for Reproductive Rights calls on politicians to stop passing laws that attack constitutionally protected health care, focus on real work of improving women’s well-being [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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