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WASHINGTON, D.C. November 6, 2023 — Tomorrow, Ohio voters will decide the fate of abortion rights as they vote on Issue 1, a proposed constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom in their state. In the months leading up to this pivotal moment, voters have contended with anti-abortion forces and government officials spreading disinformation and interfering […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. August 16, 2023 — Today, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration et al, turning back the clock on access to mifepristone. If allowed to take effect, the 5th Circuit’s decision would reimpose several restrictions on […]

WASHINGTON D.C. — This evening, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the stay requested by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Danco in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration et al. allowing mifepristone’s FDA approval to remain unchanged as the case proceeds through the Fifth Circuit Court […]

WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, in an unprecedented and deeply harmful move, a federal judge in Texas declared in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration et al the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone unlawful, threatening the 22-year approval of one of two medications used in the […]

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, September 22, 2022 — Today, an Indiana circuit court granted a request from abortion providers and a pregnancy resource center to temporarily block abortion ban Senate Bill 1 (S.B. 1), immediately restoring abortion access in the state. The court granted a preliminary injunction (PI) against the ban that went into effect on September […]

OVERLAND PARK, KS — Tonight, in a definitive statement of support for reproductive freedom in the state, Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that would have eliminated any right to abortion in the state’s constitution and opened the door to dangerous abortion bans. The vote, which comes just over a month after the U.S. Supreme […]

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 — Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee, led by Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), released critical fiscal year 2023 spending bills that make momentous gains for sexual and reproductive health. Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, responded with the following quote: “It has been just over a […]

UPDATE: In a highly unorthodox move, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an immediate stay of a lower court’s injunction of Georgia’s six-week ban, rather than waiting the normal 28-day period for the official mandate to be issued. This means the state’s six-week ban takes effect today, pushing abortion out of reach for Georgians […]

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2022 — Today, in the first Congressional vote since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the U.S. House of Representatives once again passed the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), as well as the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act. Introduced by U.S. Reps. Judy Chu (D-CA-27), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7), […]

Washington, D.C. — Tonight, Politico released a leaked draft majority opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that eliminates the constitutional right to abortion established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade. In it, Justice Samuel Alito writes “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start” and “we hold that Roe and […]

LANSING, MI — Today, Planned Parenthood of Michigan and Michigan abortion provider Dr. Sarah Wallett filed a lawsuit to block enforcement of the state’s 90-year-old felony abortion ban under the Michigan Constitution and state civil rights laws. Since Roe v. Wade has guaranteed the right to abortion at the federal level, Michigan’s ban has not […]

Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction (PI) requested by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block enforcement of Texas’s six-week abortion ban, S.B. 8. With the law now blocked, no lawsuits under S.B. 8 can be filed, accepted, or ruled on by state court clerks […]

Today, on behalf of a diverse group of health care professionals, leading medical organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case, brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of Jackson Women’s Health Organization — the last abortion provider in Mississippi — challenges […]

AUSTIN — Today, the District Court for Travis County granted a temporary restraining order against Texas Right to Life and its associates, stopping them from suing abortion providers and health care workers at Planned Parenthood health centers in Texas under the newly in-effect “sue thy neighbor” abortion ban, S.B. 8. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the […]

Today, after years of relentless attacks on their constituents’ reproductive freedom, shrouded in misleading claims of protecting women’s health and equality,  Republican lawmakers from across the country made their aims clear: They want the Supreme Court to allow states to ban access to safe, legal abortion. In separate amicus briefs filed today, 12 Republican governors […]

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2021 — Today, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) joined a coalition of 55 reproductive rights, health, and justice groups to send a letter calling on the Biden-Harris administration to take immediate steps to increase patient access to medication abortion by removing medically unnecessary federal restrictions on mifepristone — one of two […]