LA Times Op-Ed: Anti-Choice TRAP Laws Exposed https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Featured-Story_LATimes_TRAP2.jpg Anti-choice state legislation has been alarmingly successful at limiting abortion access across the country over the last few years, writes CUNY Law Professor Caitlin Borgmann in an incisive opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times this week. TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws are crafted to […]
Spotlight on India Sterilization “Camps” https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/india_forced.jpg A recent Wall Street Journal article takes a look at some of the big-picture issues around the recent tragedy in Bilaspur, India, where 13 women died and dozens of others seriously fell ill while undergoing coerced sterilization at one of the country’s government-sponsored sterilization “camps.” Although investigators have now […]
Warning: Pregnancy May Be Harmful to Your Civil Rights https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pregnant_NoRights4.jpg “At no point in her pregnancy should a woman lose her civil and human rights,” assert the authors of a recent op-ed in the New York Times. Written by Lynn Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, the article takes a look […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights, Women Enabled International, and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health prepared this letter to assist the Committee against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT Committee) during its 53rd Session in its review of the United States’ compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets It https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Elle-JusticeGinsberg-NewsStory.jpg If she wasn’t your hero already, take a look at the interview Justice Ginsburg gave to Elle magazine for their October issue, and you might reconsider. Writer Jessica Weisberg asks the 81-year-old Clinton appointee about topics all over the map—from the conservative pendulum swing on abortion issues to work/life […]
Forced Sterilization in Chile Francisca, a young Chilean woman, describes the day her only son was born as the worst and the best day of her life. The best—for obvious reasons. The worst—for reasons almost too awful to fathom. While a doctor at Curicó Hospital was delivering Francisca’s baby via cesarean, he also sterilized her without […]
MSNBC Spotlights “Draw the Line” Campaign https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MSNBC-Padma-NewsStory.jpg MSNBC looked at the Center for Reproductive Rights’ new storytelling campaign Draw the Line, which shares the personal reproductive health experiences of Americans from all walks of life. Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi kicked off the initiative for the Center with a two-minute video describing her long struggle […]
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(REVISED 03.21.2019) This lawsuit successfully challenged a regulation that would have prevented most low-income women in Alaska seeking medically necessary abortion services from receiving Medicaid coverage. In 2001, the Alaska Supreme Court held that withholding state Medicaid coverage for abortions while covering all other medically necessary care, including for pregnant women, violated the equal protection […]