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This month, the South Carolina Supreme Court blocked a six-week abortion ban because it violates the state constitution's guarantee to the right to privacy. The Center for Reproductive Rights' global advocacy team worked with partners to provide technical support to governments in UN negotiations to protect the rights of women and girls around the world. And the 2022 State Legislative Wrap Up—a new U.S. report published by the Center, which provides an overview of the year's state legislative efforts to restrict and enhance reproductive rights and access to reproductive care—was released.

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Center Sues Michigan to Block Burdensome Abortion Laws [[link removed]]
This month, we filed a case in Michigan challenging three abortion restrictions. These abortion restrictions are in violation of Michigan's Reproductive Freedom for All constitutional amendment (RFFA), which voters overwhelmingly passed on November 8, 2022. Our suit argues that these restrictions violate the RFFA by imposing medically unjustified restrictions on abortion. The laws single out abortion care for uniquely onerous treatment, and discriminating against Michiganders who already face health inequities, including Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, low-income communities, and people in rural areas of the state.
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In 2022, lawmakers in U.S. states hostile to reproductive rights intensified their efforts to attack legal protections for abortion, failed to pass laws to safeguard maternal health and declined to expand access to fertility care. In contrast, lawmakers in states supportive of reproductive rights took steps to protect abortion rights and improve access to maternal and fertility care. These findings come from the 2022 State Legislative Wrap-Up, a new report published by the Center. The report provides an overview of the state policy landscape after analyzing hundreds of bills proposed and enacted in U.S. state legislatures relating to reproductive care.
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UN Adopts Resolutions to Protect Gender and Reproductive Rights [[link removed]]
The UN General Assembly adopted several resolutions last month related to gender and reproductive rights, providing an important contribution for the development of global policy. The Center’s global advocacy team provided strategic and technical support on the resolutions to cross-regional member States. The resolutions adopted address violence against women and girls; child, early, and forced marriages; trafficking in women and girls, and intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation.
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"Through the RFFA, Michigan voters overwhelmingly declared that they will not tolerate paternalistic and medically baseless restrictions on abortion like those we are challenging in this case. With this lawsuit, we hope to eliminate these harmful restrictions and ensure the state’s laws reflect the will of Michigan voters."
—Rabia Muqaddam, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights

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