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Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, ACLU File Challenges to Abortion Restrictions in Three States

Pro-choice activists holds a coat hanger, historically used for self-induced abortion, that reads "never again" in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, January 22, 2015, during the March For Life rally. Tens of thousands of Americans who oppose abortion are in Washington for the annual March for Life, marking the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.          AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON        (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Women’s health organizations take fight against unconstitutional measures to state, federal courts

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 30, 2016.  Abortion rights groups today announced a new wave of litigation to protect and expand access to abortion, with more to come.  The three simultaneous lawsuits announced today challenge medically unnecessary abortion restrictions in Alaska, Missouri, and North Carolina.  This follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which struck down two Texas laws that devastated

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