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New Poll from the Center for Reproductive Rights: 6 in 10 Americans Support Federal Law to Protect Abortion Access

08.04.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) No matter their personal beliefs, most Americans believe abortion should be legal and would support Congress passing a new federal law to protect women’s…

Updated Report from the Center for Reproductive Rights, Ibis Reproductive Health: States with Most Abortion Restrictions have the Fewest Supportive Policies for Women, Children

08.01.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) States with the highest number of abortion restrictions tend to have the worst women and children’s health outcomes and fewest supportive policies that would actually advance the health and well-being of families—according to an updated report released by the Center for…

Federal District Court Blocks Four Arkansas Abortion Restrictions Due to Legal Challenge Brought by Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU

07.29.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) A federal district court judge last night preliminarily blocked four abortion restrictions passed in…

Senate Votes Against ‘Skinny Repeal’ Bill and Gutting Women’s Health Care

07.28.17 - (PRESS RELEASE)—Last night, the United States Senate voted against a ‘skinny repeal’ bill that would have rolled back aspects of the Affordable Care Act and defunded Planned Parenthood, decimating women’s health care access and affordability while kicking 15 million off their health care…

Senate’s ‘Skinny Repeal’ Proposal Another Dangerous Attempt to Unravel Health Care for Millions of American Women

07.27.17 - (PRESS RELEASE)—The Senate this week plans to once again take up legislation that would kick millions of Americans off their health care over the next decade and would decimate access to essential services for American women and send the insurance market into a death spiral…

Senate Votes to Advance Debate on Measures to Repeal ACA with Devastating Impact for Women’s Health Care

07.25.17 - (PRESS RELEASE)—Today, the United States Senate voted in favor of advancing  debate on legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…

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.

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TX
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Open
Owner: 
The Center
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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…