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Texas Abortion Ban in Effect Again After Appeals Court Ruling
10.08.21 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Today—in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice—the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request from the state of Texas, allowing the state’s six-week abortion ban (S.B. 8) [...]
Abortion stigma a possible death sentence for Kenyan women
Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Even though abortion is legal under certain circumstances in Kenya, since 2013, the country’s Ministry of Health has prevented health care providers from receiving training on abortion services. This has left women without the care [...]
Tanzania: Pregnant Student Ban Harms Thousands
Human Rights Watch
In Tanzania, girls undergo mandatory pregnancy testing as part of the country’s policy to ban pregnant students and adolescent mothers from attending public schools. If a student is found to be pregnant, they are expelled [...]
Federal Judge Pauses Strict Texas Law Banning Most Abortions
Multiple Sources
A federal judge granted the Justice Department’s request to halt S.B. 8, a Texas law that effectively banned abortion in the state and incentivized citizens to enforce it. However, even though S.B. 8 has been [...]
Texas Abortion Ban Temporarily Blocked by Federal Court
10.06.21 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Today, a federal district court temporarily blocked Texas’ abortion ban (SB 8), in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. The judge issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the ban [...]
Federal Lawsuit Seeks to Consolidate Challenges Regarding Texas Abortion Ban
The Hill
On October 5, the Center filed a lawsuit asking for three suits filed against their client, Dr. Alan Braid, be combined. Braid violated Texas’s abortion ban, S.B 8, which allows private citizens to sue anyone [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Files New Federal Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Texas Abortion Ban
10.05.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois that seeks to consolidate multiple lawsuits filed [...]
Supreme Court’s New Term Could See Landmark Rulings on Abortion, Guns, and Vouchers
CNN
This term, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case in which the Center is challenging a Mississippi law that bans abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy. In [...]
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Court Refuses to Block New Abortion Restrictions in Oklahoma
10.04.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, a state court judge in Oklahoma ruled from the bench and denied in part a request for a temporary injunction against several extreme abortion restrictions that will decimate access to [...]
Inside Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic as Supreme Court Battle Looms
ABC News
ABC News traveled to Jackson, Mississippi to see what the battle for abortion access looked like on the ground at the state's last remaining clinic. The Center is representing the clinic, as known as the [...]
A Visit to the Mississippi Clinic at the Center of the Abortion Case Before the Supreme Court
Ms. Magazine
Ms. Magazine spoke with Shannon Brewer, the director of Jackson Women’s Health, about what it’s like being the only abortion clinic in Mississippi. Brewer explained that the harassment is so bad that, “We cannot have [...]
New Arizona Abortion Ban Blocked Hours Before Taking Effect
09.28.2021 – (PRESS RELEASE) Tonight, a federal district court judge granted a request by Arizona physicians and advocates to temporarily block part of a new Arizona law that was scheduled to take effect tomorrow, Sept. 29. The provision that was [...]
What happens when a state bans abortion? If you don’t know, now you know.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
The Center is challenging S.B. 8, a Texas law that bans abortion at about six weeks of pregnancy. In this segment from The Daily Show, host Trevor Noah explains the dangers of Texas's ban and how [...]
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