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Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood File New Lawsuit Challenging Texas Measure Banning The Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion in the Second Trimester

07.20.17 - (PRESS RELEASE)  The Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood filed a new lawsuit in federal district court today challenging a Texas measure…

Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

07.20.17 - The Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood filed a new lawsuit in federal district court today challenging a Texas measure that bans the safest and most common method of ending a pregnancy in the second trimester after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

State: 
TX
Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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Center for Reproductive Rights Announces Michelle Dees as Chief Strategy and Operations Officer

07.20.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) Michelle Dees has joined the Center for Reproductive Rights as Chief Strategy and Operations Officer. Dees most recently served as Vice President of Strategy and Operations at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)…

Senate Republicans Keep Up Attack on Women’s Health Care Access and Services in Latest Devastating Proposal

07.13.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) – After pulling their initial health care proposal, Senate Republicans today introduced a revised health care bill that keeps the earlier provisions that would gut women’s access to basic health care services -- including maternity care and cancer screenings -- and…

A Proactive Vision

07.07.17 - What happens when you convene some of the nation’s brightest leaders in state reproductive health, rights, and justice in Washington, D.C.?

The crowd erupts in lively cheers to the sound of U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, the first Indian-American Congresswoman, declaring:…

Center for Reproductive Rights Challenges Louisiana Clinic Shutdown Laws One Year After Historic Supreme Court Decision

06.27.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) — The Center for Reproductive Rights today filed a new lawsuit against the state of…

June Medical Services v. Gee

06.27.17 - (REVISED 7.12.2017) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a new lawsuit against the state of Louisiana’s

State: 
LA
Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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Senate Republicans Unveil Dangerous Health Care Bill Which Robs Millions of Health Care, Withholds Abortion Coverage for Virtually All Women in the United States

06.22.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) Senate Republicans today unveiled their health care bill that dismantles the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and pushes health care out of reach for millions of people. …

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Our Work in Focus

Black Mamas Matter: A Toolkit for Advancing the Human Right to Safe and Respectful Maternal Health Care
In June 2015, the Center for Reproductive Rights partnered with SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective to host Black Mamas Matter, a cross-sectoral convening of leaders on Black maternal health…
Tools of Transformation
Across the United States, Black women die or suffer serious illness during and after childbirth in dramatically disproportionate numbers—three to four times higher—than do their white counterparts…
United Nations Working Group: Women in the United States, Texas Face Extreme Barriers to Basic Health Care
(PRESS RELEASE) Women in Texas and across the country continue to face discrimination and extreme barriers to basic health care services like abortion—according to independent experts from the United Nations (U.N.) Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice…
State of the States
With the recent clinic attack in Colorado, repeated congressional efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, and an upcoming abortion rights battle at the U.S. Supreme Court, the assault on women’s reproductive health care has become impossible to ignore…