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Reproductive Rights Project (RRP)  The Reproductive Rights Project challenges numerous restrictive abortion laws enacted by the Illinois General Assembly. It mounts successful court challenges to these laws and fights at every level of the courts. As the legal advocate of reproductive freedom in Illinois, the Project provides free legal services to people whose reproductive rights are jeopardized, and serves as the legal advisor to pro-choice organizations statewide.
 Lorie Chaiten has been the Director of the Reproductive Rights Project for the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois since June of 2001, but has been involved in reproductive rights litigation throughout her 25 year legal career. The ACLU’s Reproductive Rights Project seeks, through litigation, public education and legislative advocacy, to make certain that all in our society have access to safe and effective contraception, sexuality education, reproductive technologies, prenatal care, childbearing assistance and safe, legal, and accessible abortion. Ms. Chaiten has been involved in numerous court challenges to laws that impede women’s access to abortion and other reproductive health care. She is lead counsel in the current state constitutional challenge to the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act (Hope Clicnic v. Adams). She was counsel for the plaintiffs in the federal challenge to the parental notice law (Zbaraz v. Madigan) and the challenge to the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (National Abortion Federation v. Gonzales). Other court challenges to restrictive abortion statutes which Ms. Chaiten has pursued include the challenge to Illinois’ restrictive abortion facilities licensing scheme (Ragsdale v. Turnock) and the challenge to Illinois’ so-called “partial-birth abortion” ban (Hope Clinic v. Ryan). Talking about RRPListen to Lorie give an update on the status of reproductive rights in Illinois.Funding RRP Make a contribution to help the fund the fight for women's rights in Illinois.RRP Legal Documents We filed an amicus curiae brief in the case of Morr-Fitz v. Blagojevich, now pending before the Illinois Supreme Court. The case involves a challenge by two pharmacists and three pharmacy companies to an Illinois regulation that requires pharmacies to assure seamless access to contraception when an individual pharmacist refuses to fill a contraceptive prescription. The Illinois regulation – adopted after several women faced undue delay and harassment in trying to fill prescriptions for contraception – simply makes clear that the pharmacy must provide some efficient procedure to allow such prescriptions to be filled, even when one pharmacist objects.RRP Partners 
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