Press Releases
about Reproductive Freedom
Jul 11, 2016
ACLU and Groups to Speaker Ryan: Disband Panel to Investigate Planned Parenthood
Unusual Mix of Groups Send Letter to Ryan Highlighting Panel’s Abuse of Power
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Jun 28, 2016
Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion Begins to Ripple Across States
NEW YORK — One day after the Supreme Court’s most important decision on abortion in decades, the Court’s ruling is already having an impact on similar restrictions in other s...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Jun 27, 2016
Supreme Court Issues a Victory for Women in Texas Abortion Case
NEW YORK — The Supreme Court issued a decisive ruling today in what has been described as the most important abortion case in decades. The 5-3 ruling strikes down two abortion r...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Court case: Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
Jun 22, 2016
ACLU Statement on Obama Administration Affirmation of Women’s Access to Abortion
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights yesterday dismissed complaints regarding California’s requirement that all group health insur...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Jun 22, 2016
Court Affirms Public Hospitals Must Comply with Reproductive Privacy Act
SEATTLE — Public hospitals in Washington that provide maternity services must also provide abortions, according to a Skagit Valley Superior Court decision released yesterday.
The...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Jun 17, 2016
Federal Appeals Court Hears Tamesha Means’s Case, Woman Denied Emergency Medical Care Because Of Hospital’s Religious Directives
CINCINNATI — A federal appeals court will today hear a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Tamesha Means, a pregnant woman who was denied emergency me...
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
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