“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” That’s the first sentence of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations 63 years ago on December 10. And yet here we are, all these decades later, still fighting tooth and nail to ensure that those […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Lawsuit Says Law Sacrifices Women’s Health to Ideological Agenda (PRESS RELEASE) The judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights to overturn a law severely restricting the use of medications to terminate pregnancies has granted a temporary injunction blocking the law’s enforcement. Today’s decision, handed down by Oklahoma […]
By Laura MacCleery, Director of Government Relations, Center for Reproductive Rights Last week’s vote on the anti-abortion measure, H.R. 358, was a disappointing new low for the House. The heated debate occasioned dueling letters by Rep.’s Jan Schakowsky (D.-Ill.) and the bill’s author, Rep. Joseph Pitts (R.-Penn.), about whether the bill would allow institutions and […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Reviving recent efforts within Congress to dramatically roll back women’s access to reproductive health services, today the House of Representatives passed radical legislation that would ban abortion coverage for millions of women across the country and allow healthcare providers, including hospitals, to refuse a woman emergency abortion services, even if she would die […]
This litigation challenges a law that would impose severe restrictions on physicians’ ability to provide medical care to women seeking pregnancy terminations that serve no legitimate purpose and run afoul of all available medical evidence. Filing Date: 10/5/2011 State: Oklahoma Plaintiff(s): Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice and Nova Health Systems d/b/a Reproductive Services Center Attorney(s): […]
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) 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 […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today’s decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to require health insurance companies to cover a full range of contraceptive methods without co-payments is a tremendous victory for women and represents a huge stride towards reducing unintended pregnancies in the U.S. and promoting healthier, planned childbirth, says the Center for Reproductive […]
(PRESS RELEASE) A vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to reimpose the Global Gag Rule threatens women’s health and lives and undermines basic American values, say advocates at the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global advocacy organization that promotes women’s reproductive rights around the world. At around 11:45 p.m. on July 20th, Committee members […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, a state judge issued a temporary restraining order against a North Dakota law that effectively bans the use of medication abortion in the state by imposing new and unnecessary restrictions. Medication abortion is a safe and common use of FDA-approved drugs to induce first-trimester abortions. Judge Wickham Corwin’s order will block enforcement […]