Center Demands Truth in Advertising from CPCs https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Baltimore-hp.JPG The Center for Reproductive Rights has joined the City of Baltimore to defend a first-in-the-nation ordinance that demands truth in advertising from limited-service pregnancy centers. Those centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, are non-medical facilities that counsel pregnant women against using abortion and birth control services. […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, Dr. LeRoy Carhart, a Nebraska abortion provider, issued a statement regarding the two abortion bills signed into law yesterday by Governor Dave Heineman. One law bans abortion after 20-weeks of pregnancy. The other requires doctors to perform extensive screenings of women for any “risk factors” before providing an abortion. “I am extremely […]
This morning, the Nebraska state legislature approved the most extreme state law in recent history. The law (LB 1103) would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. And yesterday, the legislature passed another extreme abortion restriction (LB 594)—the first-of-its-kind— which requires doctors to perform extensive screenings of women for any “risk factors” before providing an […]
By Rachel Larris “You might have missed it over the holidays, but Virginia drivers may soon be seeing a pro-choice license plate on the road. Planned Parenthood of Virginia is now offering Virginians the chance to pre-order a specialty license plate that says ‘Trust Women, Trust Choice.’ Specialty license plates are offered in Virginia and […]
Oklahoma The United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1-Complaint_0.pdf
Oklahoma Hill v. Kemp: Opinion of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Hill-Kemp-10CA-Opinion-030607.pdf
, Filing date: 01/14/04 State: Oklahoma Plaintiff(s): Harold E. Hill, Margaret R. and William F. McCright, John J. McQueen, Rita J. Moskowitz, Barbara Santee, and Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Inc. Center Attorney(s): ,Janet Crepps Co-Counsel/Cooperating Attorneys: Molly S. Boast, Suzanne M. Grosso, and Cameron L. Schroeder of the firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP […]
Statement from the Center for Reproductive Rights New York, NY – Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to review Hill v. Kemp, a case which centers on a license plate program in Oklahoma which offers specialty license plates with the message “Choose Life,” but makes it more difficult for motorists to obtain pro-choice specialty license plates. […]
Statement from Nancy Northup, President of the Center for Reproductive Rights Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Keeler v. Stalder, a case that looked at whether states may issue specialty license plates with the message “Choose Life,” but refuse to offer pro-choice plates. One hundred percent of the $25 fee paid by motorists […]
Tulsa State officials agreed not to distribute the proceeds from Oklahoma’s “Choose Life” specialty license plates to anti-choice pregnancy counseling centers until July 1, 2005. The agreement was reached in connection with a lawsuit brought by a religious organization, Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Education Fund, Inc., and six Oklahoma motorists challenging the constitutionality […]