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SisterSong v. Kemp
(Revised July 20, 2022) This lawsuit challenges Georgia’s 2019 effort to ban abortion, which was set to take effect on January 1, 2020. House Bill 481 would ban abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before [...]
ACLU, Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood File Lawsuit Challenging Georgia Abortion Ban
ACLU, Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood File Lawsuit Challenging Georgia Abortion Ban Extreme Law Takes Direct Aim at the Right to Abortion Guaranteed by Roe v. Wade The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU [...]
AMA files lawsuit to protect patient-physician relationship in North Dakota in partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights
AMA files lawsuit to protect patient-physician relationship in North Dakota in partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights State law would force physicians to provide false and misleading information to patients (PRESS RELEASE)– The American [...]
Emergency Request to Block Title X Rule Filed in Maine
Emergency Request to Block Title X Rule Filed in Maine After a nationwide block of the Gag Rule was lifted yesterday, the Center for Reproductive Rights is asking a court in Maine to re-block the [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights and the Legal and Human Rights Centre file a complaint challenging the expulsion and exclusion of pregnant school girls in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam - (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) filed a Complaint before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child challenging [...]
Legal and Human Rights Centre and the Center for Reproductive Rights (on Behalf of Tanzanian Girls) Against the United Republic of Tanzania (ACERWC)
Case seeks to end the discriminatory practice of barring pregnant girls and adolescent mothers from school.
Kenya’s High Court issues a landmark ruling on access to safe abortion in a case against Ministry of Health
Kenya’s High Court issues a landmark ruling on access to safe abortion in a case against Ministry of Health Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights won a landmark case challenging the government’s withdrawal of “Standards [...]
Lambda Legal, Americans United, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the County of Santa Clara Ask Court for Immediate Halt to Implementation of Denial of Care Rule
Lambda Legal, Americans United, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the County of Santa Clara Ask Court for Immediate Halt to Implementation of Denial of Care Rule The threat to the health of LGBTQ people, [...]
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Innovative litigation filed against three countries to protect girls’ rights in Latin America
Geneva (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood Global, Mujeres Transformando el Mundo Guatemala (MTM), Observatorio en Salud Sexual y Reproductiva Guatemala (OSAR), Surkuna Ecuador, Fundación Desafío and Asociación de Mujeres Axayacatl filed a lawsuit with the United Nations Human Rights Committee [...]
“They Are Girls, Not Mothers”—Protecting Sexual Abuse Victims from Forced Pregnancy and Childbirth (UN Human Rights Committee)
These cases against Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ecuador were brought on behalf of four girls—each age 14 or younger—who were raped and forced to give birth. The cases argue that by failing to protect these sexual abuse victims, the countries violated their human rights.
Lambda Legal, Center for Reproductive Rights and Americans United Sue Trump Administration to Block Denial of Care Rule
Lambda Legal, CRR, and Americans United Sue Trump Administration to Block Denial of Care Rule (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Lambda Legal, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State [...]
Six-Week Abortion Ban Blocked by Federal Court in Mississippi
Six-Week Abortion Ban Blocked by Federal Court in Mississippi (PRESS RELEASE) Today, a federal district court in Mississippi temporarily blocked a state law passed in March that would ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Fully Supports New Federal Legislation to Protect Abortion Access
Center for Reproductive Rights Fully Supports New Federal Legislation to Protect Abortion Access Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights joined leaders in Congress and reproductive health, rights, and justice advocates to celebrate the reintroduction of [...]
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Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.