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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 directed the Reproductive Rights Project for the ACLU of Illinois/Roger Baldwin Foundation since June of 2001, and has been involved in reproductive rights litigation throughout her 22 year legal career. Ms. Chaiten also has played a leading role in numerous public advocacy projects, including the Emergency Contraception Access Project and the New Abortion Provider Initiative’s effort to expand access to medical abortions in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa.
RRP in Washington, D.C. and Springfield Call your Congressperson and your Senators and ask him or her to protect women's health!Talking about RRP Listen 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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