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Senate Votes to Advance Debate on Measures to Repeal ACA with Devastating Impact for Women’s Health Care
Senate Votes to Advance Debate on Measures to Repeal ACA with Devastating Impact for Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE)—Today, the United States Senate voted in favor of advancing debate on legislation that would repeal the [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood File New Lawsuit Challenging Texas Measure Banning The Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion in the Second Trimester
CRR, PP File New Lawsuit Challenging TX Measure Banning Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion in Second Trimester Dangerous law puts medical decisions in the hands of politicians -- rather than doctors and their patients. [...]
Whole Woman’s Health v. Paxton
(REVISED 1.19.22) This case was a challenge to a Texas ban on the standard procedure for abortion care after about 14-15 weeks. The Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood filed the lawsuit in federal district [...]
Chile’s Senate Passes Abortion Bill
Chile’s Senate Passes Abortion Bill (PRESS RELEASE) After more than two years of Congressional deliberations, today the Chile Senate passed an abortion bill that will allow women to access safe and legal abortion services in [...]
Senate Republicans Keep Up Attack on Women’s Health Care Access and Services in Latest Devastating Proposal
Senate Republicans Keep Up Attack on Women’s Health Care Access and Services in Latest Devastating Proposal (PRESS RELEASE) – After pulling their initial health care proposal, Senate Republicans today introduced a revised health care bill [...]
Salvadoran Teenager Wrongfully Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Experiencing Pregnancy Complications
Salvadoran Teenager Wrongfully Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Experiencing Pregnancy Complications (PRESS RELEASE) This week a nineteen-year old Salvadoran rape survivor who became pregnant and suffered a stillbirth was sentenced to 30 years [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Challenges Louisiana Clinic Shutdown Laws One Year After Historic Supreme Court Decision
Center for Reproductive Rights Challenges Louisiana Clinic Shutdown Laws High court’s landmark Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt ruling declared similar restrictions unconstitutional (PRESS RELEASE) — The Center for Reproductive Rights today filed a new lawsuit [...]
June Medical Services v. Gee
(REVISED 12.18.2021) - The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana’s clinic licensing law that forced most of the state’s abortion clinics to close. The law contains more than 1,000 medically unnecessary requirements [...]
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Senate Republicans Unveil Dangerous Health Care Bill Which Robs Millions of Health Care, Withholds Abortion Coverage for Virtually All Women in the United States
Senate Republicans Unveil Dangerous Health Care Bill Which Robs Millions of Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) Senate Republicans today unveiled their health care bill that dismantles the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and pushes health care out [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU File New Lawsuit Challenging Four Abortion Restrictions Passed in Arkansas This Year
Center, ACLU File New Lawsuit Challenging Four Abortion Restrictions Passed in Arkansas This Year (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Arkansas filed a new [...]
Frederick W. Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H. v. Larry Jegley, et al.
(Revised 9.20.21) This case, filed on behalf of a woman’s health care provider in federal district court by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Arkansas, is [...]
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure reproductive rights are guaranteed in law as human rights, announced [...]
U.N. Committee: Criminalization of Abortion in Ireland Violates Woman’s Human Rights
U.N. Committee: Criminalization of Abortion in Ireland Violates Woman's Human Rights New Decision Marks Second Time the U.N. Human Rights Committee Calls for Abortion Law Reform in Ireland (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Human Rights [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
