By Aram Schvey, policy counsel for foreign policy and human rights, Center for Reproductive Rights You don’t ask a vegetarian where to get a great prime rib, or a teetotaler for a single-malt scotch recommendation. You don’t ask a bald man where to get a stylish haircut. So why would federal policymakers defer to a […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Legislation introduced last night by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and 16 cosponsoring Senators would block ongoing efforts by anti-choice lawmakers to reimpose the Global Gag Rule on abortion—and the Center for Reproductive Rights is calling on Congress to pass it. The gag rule, championed by anti-choice administrations since 1984, prohibits family planning groups based […]
(PRESS RELEASE) As the joint House-Senate Supercommittee begins work tomorrow developing a bipartisan deficit-reduction plan, progressive organizations are cautioning members of Congress against adding policy riders to this year’s budget bill—calling such additions an “extortionist and back-room means of legislating” in a letter signed by 135 groups representing millions of members and supporters.The coalition, spearheaded […]
(PRESS RELEASE) As the Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote on a budget bill for the District of Columbia’s fiscal year 2012, the Center for Reproductive Rights called on members of the Senate to defeat any efforts to re-impose the longtime ban on abortion funding in the city. In the final bill funding appropriations […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/midyear_wrapup_HP.jpg What’s the worst thing about bad ideas? They’re catching. Once one state passes a new anti-choice law—no matter how outrageously invasive or unconstitutional—it’s on its way to being copied by anti-choice activists and legislators in other states, bound by the same goal: blocking women’s access to safe abortion and other reproductive health services. The […]
CHARM v. State of Bihar and Others is a public interest litigation petition filed in March 2011 by the Center’s partner in India, Human Rights Law Network. It seeks legal accountability from the state government of Bihar for its failure to provide essential maternal health care, including safe abortion services, in public health facilities, leading […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights applauded a report issued by a panel of scientific experts, recommending that the federal government require health insurance companies to cover a full range of contraceptive methods for women as a preventive service, without co-payments. The government requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a highly respected […]
In April 2011 the Center for Reproductive Rights and the All Russian Family Planning Association (currently known as Russian Association for Population and Development – RAPD) submitted a shadow letter to the 46th session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR Committee) on the situation of women and girls’ sexual and reproductive […]
In April 2011 the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Moldovan Institute for Human Rights (IDOM) submitted a shadow letter to the 46th session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR Committee) on the situation of women and girls’ sexual and reproductive rights in the Republic of Moldova. The letter highlights barriers […]
Las mujeres representan aproximadamente el 50% de los 33,4 millones de personas que viven con VIH/SIDA en todo el mundo. Aunque el porcentaje total de mujeres que viven con VIH/SIDA se ha estabilizado en los últimos años, algunos países, incluido Chile, siguen presentando aumentos en las tasas de infección de mujeres. Factores sociales y culturales […]