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Two More Texas Health Centers Forced to Close in Wake of Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Passed Last Summer

Two More Texas Health Centers Forced to Close in Wake of Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Passed Last Summer Women in East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley face dire health care crisis (PRESS RELEASE) Whole Woman’s [...]

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New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion

New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion Regulations would severely limit—if not outright ban—access to medication abortion, force doctors to ignore best medical practices (PRESS RELEASE) Women’s health care providers filed a federal [...]

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Harmful Alaska regulation that discriminates against low-income women temporarily blocked

Harmful Alaska regulation that discriminates against low-income women temporarily blocked Significant victory for Medicaid-eligible women in accessing the full range of reproductive health care (PRESS RELEASE) An Alaska Superior Court has extended the Temporary Restraining Order [...]

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Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska Lawsuit seeks to immediately block new regulation that severely restricts abortion coverage through the state Medicaid program [...]

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Perú Ends Criminal Investigation into Mass Forced Sterilizations

Perú Ends Criminal Investigation into Mass Forced Sterilizations Center for Reproductive Rights calls out state for failing to comply with its obligations before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (PRESS RELEASE) Peruvian prosecutors have closed [...]

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Indian High Court Orders Haryana Government to Respond to Allegations of Denying Women Modern Contraceptives

Indian High Court Orders Haryana Government to Respond to Allegations of Denying Women Modern Contraceptives (PRESS RELEASE) Today, Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ordered the [...]

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Oklahoma Judge: Restrictions on Emergency Contraception Violate State Constitution

Oklahoma Judge: Restrictions on Emergency Contraception Violate State Constitution Oklahoma women will continue to have same access to safe and effective emergency contraception as other women across the U.S. (PRESS RELEASE) Late yesterday, an Oklahoma [...]

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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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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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Austin City Council Members Speak Out in Support of Federal Women’s Health Protection Act, Call for Repeal of Texas HB2

Austin City Council Members Support Women’s Health Protection Act, Call for Repeal of Texas HB2 Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup calls the move “brave,” urges more elected officials to support women’s health and [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.