Fact Sheets

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The Personhood Papers

12.07.12 - The so-called personhood movement threatens the human and reproductive rights of women by giving rights to a fertilized egg. The Center has assembled information and strategies to help advocates, legislators, and others beat back these harmful proposals…

Fact Sheet: Access to Contraceptives in the European Union

06.22.12 - States are obligated under international law to provide women access to a full range of contraceptives and contraceptive information. Most countries in the European Union include affordable contraceptives and contraceptive information in their public health and social policies…

Fact Sheet: A, B and C v. Ireland

05.22.12 -  In 2005, three women challenged the Irish law on abortion after being forced to travel abroad to obtain an abortion. The Irish law currently only allows abortion when a woman's life is in danger, and this exception is vague and difficult to interpret…

Blunt Amendment Would Eviscerate Health Care Coverage for Millions

02.29.12 - Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)…

The Contraception Controversy: A Comprehensive Reply (PDF Download)

02.27.12 -  The Obama Administration’s recently announced policy to require insurers to cover contraception as women’s preventive health care has prompted many over-heated…

The “Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act”: A Dangerous and Cynical Attack on Women’s Health and the Right to Safe Abortion

12.06.11 - Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) has proposed the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, H.R…

Fact Sheet: Reproductive Rights in Nepal

10.27.11 -  In 2002, abortion was decriminalized on broad grounds in Nepal…

Factsheet: Demand Healthcare Fairness for New York’s Finest

07.22.11 - The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) and Detectives Endowment Association (DEA) offer prescription health insurance plans that don’t cover prescription contraceptives (birth control) but provide otherwise comprehensive prescription drug plans…

Proposed Global Gag Rule Threatens Women's Health and Lives; Undermines Democratic Values

07.18.11 - The House of Representatives-proposed Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 2012 would reinstate a failed Bush-era policy -- the "Global Gag Rule" -- that would silence overseas community groups and health experts, preventing them from discussing access to safe, legal abortion - even when this…