17-year-old K.L. took on the country Peru for enabling officials to force her to carry a fatally-impaired fetus to term. When our client K.L. was seventeen years old, she found out that she was pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. Even though abortion is legal in Peru for therapeutic reasons, K.L. was illegally denied access to […]
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A key United Nations human rights body, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee), is urging Ecuador to curb sexual violence against girls in schools. The issue was highlighted by a shadow letter from the Center. According to local organizations, between 22% and 63% of Ecuadorian girls report sexual abuse in […]
Filing date: , 6/7/2004 State: Louisiana Plaintif(s): Choice, Inc. Of Texas D/B/A Causeway Medical Clinic, Center Atorney(s): , Sandy Cohen Co-Counel/Cooperating Attorneys: , Morrison & Foerster LLP: Jamie Levitt, J. Alexander Lawrence, Sarah Rosell (co-counsel), Bill Rittenberg (Local Counsel) Summary: Beginning in 1993, William A. Graham co-opted the name of a well-known medical provider, and […]
European Court of Human Rights Sets Standards for the Rights of Adolescents to Reproductive Health Services (Updated 04.01.21) The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Poland violated an adolescent’s human rights when her access to a legal abortion after being sexually assaulted was repeatedly obstructed. The Court, for the first, time addressed the special vulnerability of adolescents in need of abortion care and confirmed young people’s […]
On Thursday, July 3, a citizen-convened grand jury refused to indict Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. In a written statement, the jurors said they had not found sufficient evidence to accuse Dr. Tiller of any crime related to abortion laws in Kansas. The state prohibits post-viability abortions unless a woman’s life or health is […]
Almost 60,000 women die every year in Nigeria from preventable pregnancy-related causes because the oil-rich country has failed to implement and enforce its own policies on maternal health, according to a new report published by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights and the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) in Lagos, Nigeria. Broken […]
NEW YORK — Today, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the grand jury investigating abortion provider Dr. George Tiller cannot embark on a fishing expedition into his patients’ medical records. The court ordered the lower court, the Eighteenth Judicial District court in Wichita, to undertake a number of steps before allowing any information from the […]
NEW YORK- Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights argued before the Kansas Supreme Court to stop a citizen-petitioned grand jury from obtaining the medical records of approximately 2,000 women who sought services from Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. The Center argued that the subpoenas are a profound intrusion on the patients’ privacy, and their […]