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Federal judge stays application of Arkansas’ restrictive 12-week abortion ban
U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright issued an injunction against Arkansas’ recently-passed ban on abortions after 12 weeks, pending the results of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The ACLU of Arkansas’s legal director Holly Dickson said in a statement, “This law is aimed…
Court upholds Arizona’s extreme 20-week abortion ban
The U.S. District Court of Arizona rejected a Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenge to the state’s 20-week abortion ban, one of the most extreme anti-abortion laws in the nation, on Monday. “The court upheld a law that prevents doctors from providing safe, legal…
Suit seeks to make ‘morning-after pill’ available to girls
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Reproductive rights advocates on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to make the “morning-after pill” immediately available to girls of all ages without a prescription. The move by a coalition headed by the Center for Reproductive Rights attempts to override a decision by U.S. Secretary…
U.S. court enters fray over morning-after pill
WASHINGTON — A US federal judge heard arguments Tuesday about the government’s decision to deny over-the-counter access of emergency contraception to girls under 17, as part of a decade-long legal battle. Federal Judge Edward Korman heard from the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Reproductive Rights one week…
Happy Mother’s Day!
Young women from the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in New York City came down to the Center for Reproductive Rights offices to talk about how their moms inspired them on reproductive rights and other issues. It’s a super sweet video, made me all schmoopy. My Mom is…
Bunnies!
Adorable bunnies speaking for an important cause. Tell the FDA to Act on Emergency Contraception from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo. Today, it’s been a year since the FDA was ordered to revisit its policy of requiring women to ask for OTC emergency contraception from a pharmacist, so they…
Do the math
Check out this short video on the impact of the ban on most abortions in Kenya: In Harm’s Way: Unsafe Abortion in Kenya from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo. Even when you build “exceptions” into abortion bans, they usually don’t do much for people who technically qualify. Lack of…
Repeal The Hyde Amendment!
Check out this video put out by the Center for Reproductive Rights, explaining what the Hyde Amendment is and why it’s so completely silly and unfair: The video features both Jesse and myself, as well as Jay Smooth, Aimee Thorne-Thomsen, Sarah Seltzer, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Heather Corinna, Jill Filipovic, Allison Kilkenny,…
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