🚨CASE UPDATE: The Oklahoma State Supreme Court blocked three extreme abortion restrictions that were scheduled to take effect on November 1 and threatened to devastate abortion access in the state.

Today’s ruling means the laws will remain blocked while the case continues.
❗If these restrictions were allowed to go into effect over half of Oklahoma’s abortion providers would be forced to stop providing abortions.

AND people would be required to make two separate trips to a health care provider at least 72-hours apart to access medication abortion.
"The Oklahoma Supreme Court recognized that these laws would cause irreparable harm to Oklahomans...” —Nancy Northup, Center CEO
“All of these laws have the same goal: to make it harder to get an abortion in Oklahoma. We will continue to fight in court to ensure these laws are struck down for good. Politicians should not be meddling in the private health decisions of Oklahomans.” —Nancy Northup, Center CEO
Learn more about this case and read our full statement on today’s ruling: reproductiverights.org/oklahoma-supre…

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22 Oct
🚨 #BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear our case challenging Texas’s abortion ban #SB8 & the Department of Justice's case challenging the same law in JUST TEN DAYS.

#SCOTUS has declined to rule on the request to block the unconstitutional ban until after oral arguments.
“The Supreme Court’s action today brings us one step closer to the restoration of Texans’ constitutional rights and an end to the havoc and heartache of this ban...” —Nancy Northup, Center president and CEO
“We are enormously disappointed that the Court has left the law in effect for now, forcing those with means to leave the state to access constitutionally protected abortion services and leaving others with no options at all...” —Nancy Northup, Center president and CEO
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22 Oct
.@WhiteHouseGPC’s National Strategy on Gender Equity & Equality set forth a comprehensive agenda to advance gender equity and equality in domestic & foreign policy—and demonstrates that families, communities and nations around the world stand to benefit. 👏
Nancy Northup, Center President & CEO on this landmark agenda:

“We applaud President Biden’s leadership in setting forth this ambitious agenda that has as a strategic priority protecting and expanding access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, both domestically and globally.”
“The Strategy recognizes that sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice are under grave attack in the United States and outlines an effective response. It addresses both the crisis in abortion access and maternal health."
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5 Oct
🚨 #TEXAS UPDATE: We just filed a lawsuit in defense of Dr. Alan Braid, the physician who provided abortion care to a Texas woman beyond the limit under the state’s abortion ban, #SB8.

This lawsuit also asks a federal court to strike down the unconstitutional ban.
In the 33 days that #SB8 has been in effect, abortion access has been decimated in #Texas, but Texans have not stopped needing and seeking abortion care. #BansOffOurBodies #AbortionIsEssential
“I have a duty of care to my patients and, in this instance, I provided that care in violation of #SB8. Every day it is in effect, #SB8 is harming the people of Texas and denying them their constitutional right to abortion, and it must be stopped.” —Dr. Alan Braid
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5 Oct
The Center is excited to host our virtual State Leadership Summit today with over 150 advocates, legislators and organizers working to advance proactive state policies for reproductive health, rights & justice. #ReproVirtualSummit
Stay tuned for the highlights from the #ReproVirtualSummit!
And learn more about the Center’s U.S. state policy advocacy work here: reproductiverights.org/our-work/in-th…
“The last year and a half have fortified and underscored what we always knew: that our movement is resilient, creative and stronger together, even while apart.” —Lourdes Rivera, the Center’s Senior Vice President of U.S. Programs #ReproVirtualSummit
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4 Oct
🚨 Not OK. 🚨

Today, a state court judge in #Oklahoma denied a request for a temporary injunction against several extreme abortion restrictions that will decimate access to abortion across the state and region. The laws take effect on November 1.

bit.ly/3ixdP8p
The court blocked two abortion bans today, but gave the green light to severe restrictions, including a law that would reduce the number of abortion providers in OK by MORE THAN HALF.
This decision comes over a month after Texas’s six-week abortion ban, #SB8 took effect and eliminated the vast majority of abortion access in the state.
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30 Sep
HAPPENING NOW: The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform is holding a hearing on the urgent need to protect and expand abortion rights and access.

🔴 Watch the hearing live:
“The right to abortion is rendered meaningless without access.” —@RepMaloney
"Let me be very clear, access to abortion is a freedom that is essential to Americans' ability to control their own bodies and decide their own future.” —@RepMaloney

#AbortionIsEssential
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