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Canadian Doctors: “Life Begins at Birth”

08.16.12 -  Earlier this year, one member of Canada's Parliament tried to start a fire…

Time for Action

08.09.12 -  In August 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) struck a blow for women worldwide when it recognized—in the first preventable maternal death case to go before an international human rights body—that governments have an inescapable…

Here’s A Story to Make You Nice and Mad

07.26.12 - 07.26.12 - CNN.com is reporting that a pregnant teenager in the Dominican Republic is being denied cancer treatment because of the country's abortion ban…

It’s Not Rocket Science

07.20.12 - 07.20.12 - In a recent opinion piece from the International Herald Tribune, more evidence of the benefits of low-cost birth control were clearly laid out…

Road to Reform in Rwanda

07.10.12 -  Anne wanted only to get the education that would be the path to a better life. Instead she wound up in a prison in Rwanda, where women have for years been victims of extreme abortion laws. …

Road to Reform in Rwanda

07.10.12 -  Anne wanted only to get the education that would be the path to a better life. Instead she wound up in a prison in Rwanda, where women have for years been victims of extreme abortion laws. …

CRR Celebrates 20 Years

06.15.12 -  Twenty years ago on June 15, 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights opened its doors…

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

05.24.12 - 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. The story behind that groundbreaking decision begins with Lakshmi Devi Dhikta. Lakshmi is an extremely poor woman from Dadeldhura who already had five children when she became pregnant for the sixth time. …

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