Oklahoma House Committee Advances Measure Requiring “Father’s Consent” Before Woman Can Obtain Safe, Legal Abortion (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Oklahoma House Committee on Public Health advanced a bill today which would ban a woman from obtaining abortion care in Oklahoma unless the “father of the fetus” provides his “informed written consent.” The sponsor of the measure […]
Error de la justicia: El impacto de la prohibición total del aborto en El Salvador https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/19JAN17-SP-ElSalvador-CEDAW-brief-66th-session.pdf
Miscarriage of Justice: The Impact of El Salvador’s Total Abortion Ban (Advocacy Brief) https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/19JAN17-ElSalvador-CEDAW-brief-66th-session.pdf
(REVISED 08.09.18) The Supreme Court delivered a landmark victory in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt on June 27, 2016, striking down the two abortion restrictions under challenge in the case, preserving access for thousands of Texas women, and signaling that similar laws across the country are also unconstitutional. The decision had an equally important effect […]
Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned Shares Her Story with U.N. Committee (PRESS RELEASE) A Salvadoran woman who was wrongfully imprisoned after an obstetric emergency and later absolved and released in 2015 spoke to a United Nations committee about the mistreatment of pregnant women in El Salvador and the human rights abuses resulting from the country’s extreme […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Confirmation of Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services “Tom Price has a dangerous record of attacking women’s health care and we are deeply troubled by his confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General “Jeff Sessions has a troubling history of attacking women’s constitutional rights and we have serious concerns about his confirmation as Attorney General,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “From voting to defund Planned Parenthood […]
Pennsylvania Senate Passes Two Abortion Bans (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Pennsylvania Senate passed an unconstitutional measure today which bans a safe, medically proven, method of second trimester abortion while also banning abortion at 20 weeks after a woman’s last menstrual period. The bill now heads to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The Pennsylvania House passed a similar measure […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016-AnnualReport-Cover.PNG The year 2016 was a historic one. The Center’s legal victories brought us closer to our vision of a world where women have the reproductive autonomy to fulfill their destinies. We won the most significant abortion rights case in a generation before the U.S. Supreme Court, and we achieved groundbreaking justice for women in […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court (PRESS RELEASE) Today President Trump announced the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Gorsuch was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where […]
