Reuters: Uganda women unable to get contraception, dying from unsafe abortions By Katy Nigiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Uganda has one of the world’s highest unmet needs for contraception, leading almost 300,000 women to seek backstreet abortions each year – with many dying as a result, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) said in […]
Fox Latino: The Choice Between Birth Control or Food on the Table: Could You Decide? By Jessica González-Rojas, Nancy Northup The rural community in the Texas Rio Grande Valley where Daniela lives has few options for health care. So when the mobile clinic that once visited her community stopped coming, services stopped with it. Because […]
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SCOTUS Refuses to Reinstate Injunction Blocking Law That Has Halted Abortion Services at Over a Dozen Texas Clinics Admitting privileges requirement will continue to deny Texas women of constitutional rights while case is heard at Fifth Circuit Thousands of women will continue to be denied their constitutional rights and access to abortion services in Texas […]
No great leaps in medical technology will ever alter the reality that a certain percentage of pregnancies fail for natural, unavoidable reasons. What can, and what in fact must, change is the care women receive in some corners of the world when such events unfold. Indeed, there are countries where women who learn that their […]
Jansing & Co.: Albuquerque votes on late-term abortion ban The Center For Reproductive Rights’ Nancy Northup discusses the implications of Albuquerque’s vote on late-term abortions.
Las mujeres continúan muriendo a causa de la maternidad La Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Senado convocó a una Audiencia Pública en el Senado de Brasil para tratar el caso de Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brasil sobre mortalidad materna (COMUNICADO DE PRENSA) Dos años después de que Naciones Unidas declarara la responsabilidad de Brasil […]
Fighting for Women in Ireland https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_ireland_6.13.13.jpg On Nov 13, the Center for Reproductive Rights joined with the Irish organization Doctors for Choice to stand with three women who were forced to leave the country to terminate pregnancies that had no chance of survival and posed health risks. The Irish Times interviewed one of the women […]
Brazilian Lawmakers Hear Testimony Regarding Discrimination Against Women Seeking Maternal Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) Two years after the United Nations declared Brazil responsible for the death of an Afro-Brazilian woman —calling on the State to provide access to quality maternal health care without discrimination—pregnant women are still dying, and Brazil has not implemented the decision by […]
History on the Hill https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/nn-chrishayes.jpg Center president and CEO appeared on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes to talk about the just announced Women’s Health Protection Act and how we finally have a bill that will actually protect women’s health.
