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Center for Reproductive Rights Condemns Harmful Anti-Choice Comments by Turkish Prime Minister

05.29.12 - (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights has joined international and local women’s rights advocates in strongly condemning Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent public comments comparing abortion to murder and calling on the Minister of Health to impose new, more…

Victory for Women in the Military: Senate Committee Passes Amendment to Allow Some Abortion Coverage for Servicewomen

05.24.12 - (PRESS RELEASE) The Senate Armed Forces Committee voted today to ease insurance coverage restrictions for military servicewomen and allow coverage of abortion for servicewomen who are victims of rape or incest, passing with bipartisan support an amendment to the 2013 National Defense…

Pro-Choice Hero Dies at 101

05.24.12 - News from The New York Times this week that a pro-choice hero died this past Tuesday.  Dr. Jean Pakter headed New York City's bureau of maternity services and family planning from 1960 to 1982…

Barrage of Lawsuits Challenging Women’s Health Care is Just a “Political Stunt”

05.22.12 - (PRESS RELEASE) More than 40 Catholic groups filed 12 separate lawsuits across the country yesterday challenging the Affordable Care Act's copay-free birth control benefit for all women—a move the Center for Reproductive Rights has called a clear political stunt based on precarious legal grounds…

Romanian Officials to Consider New Abortion Law Requiring Five-Day 'Reflection Period' and Biased Counseling

05.21.12 - (PRESS RELEASE) Nearly 40 international and European human rights organizations have joined together to urge Romanian officials to reject a proposed law that would create significant barriers for women seeking an abortion—including forcing women to endure biased counseling at “pregnancy crisis…

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In Depth

Victory in Honduras
Victory in Honduras

On May 17, 2012, the Center for Reproductive Rights held a demonstration on the steps of the Honduran Congress. Our mission: to stop the government from passing a bill that will imprison women for using emergency contraception. Alejandra Cárdenas, Legal Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean, had planned to personally hand-deliver 730,000 petitions to the Congress signed by activists in more than 80 countries in protest.

The response was completely unexpected.…

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Himalayan Times: Safe and Affordable Abortion is a Woman’s Right

Three years ago, Nepal’s Supreme Court (SC) catapulted the nation to the forefront of the global women’s rights movement by unequivocally ruling that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and affordable abortion services…

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