Tag: abortion

Texas Woman Asks Court for an Emergency Abortion

12.05.23 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed an emergency lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman in Texas, Kate Cox, who needs urgent abortion care due to a lethal fetal diagnosis and threats to her life, health, and fertility from continuing the pregnancy. Despite her dangerous pregnancy complications, Kate has been […]

Cox v. Texas

Even More Women Sue Texas After Being Denied Abortions for Dangerous Pregnancy Complications

11.14.2023 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, seven women who were refused medically necessary abortions joined a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights earlier this year against the state of Texas (Zurawski v. State of Texas). This brings the current number of plaintiffs up to 22 as the case heads to the Texas Supreme Court […]

Abortion Providers File for Rehearing In S.C. Abortion Ban Case

08.24.23 (PRESS RELEASE) — Today, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the Greenville Women’s Clinic, and two physician plaintiffs filed a request for rehearing on yesterday’s South Carolina Supreme Court decision, which upheld a ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy. The ruling represents a departure from the Court’s January opinion, which found that a […]

BREAKING: South Carolina Supreme Court Allows Six-Week Abortion Ban to Go Into Effect

08.23.23 (PRESS RELEASE) — Today, the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld the state’s newly enacted ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy (Senate Bill 474). The law, which had been blocked since May 26, is nearly identical to a six-week ban permanently struck down by this Court in January of this year. After […]

Five Women Denied Abortions Sue Texas

Broadcast highlights reporting on the Center's new lawsuit against Texas.

Five Women Sue Texas Over the State’s Abortion Ban

Media coverage of Zurawski v. State of Texas, a lawsuit filed by the Center on behalf of five Texas women.

U.S. Repro Watch: 5 Items You Won’t Want to Miss

Recent news of interest on reproductive rights in the United States.

South Carolina Supreme Court Affirms Abortion as a Protected Privacy Right Under the State’s Constitution

Court permanently blocks six-week abortion ban, calling it an “unreasonable restriction upon a woman's right to privacy.”

30 Years of Impact: Advancing Abortion Rights

Over the last 30 years, the Center has been working to transform abortion law and policy worldwide, so that every person has access to this care.