Parental involvement laws require young women to obtain the consent of or notify one or both parents in order to obtain an abortion, forcing those who are unable to comply with the requirements to delay obtaining appropriate medical care. Forty-three states have adopted some form of parental involvement law, but in six of those states, […]
This was a pre-election challenge to a ballot measure in Alaska proposing a law to require notification of one parent of a minor, followed by a 48-hour delay, prior to the performance of an abortion. Filing Date: 7/31/2009 State: Alaska Plaintiff(s): Planned Parenthood of Alaska, Susan Wingrove Center Attorney(s): Janet Crepps Co-Counsel/Cooperating Attorneys: Eve Gartner and […]
(PRESS RELEASE) The European Committee of Social Rights, which monitors state compliance with the European Social Charter, has found that Croatia’s limited curriculum covering sex education discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation. The Committee stated that the state has an obligation to ensure that educational materials do not reinforce demeaning stereotypes and perpetuate forms […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Human Rights Committee for its review of Ecuador during its 97th Session in October 2009. The letter highlights two structural issues in Ecuador: sexual violence against girls in schools and, limited or no access to essential reproductive and sexual health care services for adolescents. […]
El gobierno sigue negando a las mujeres el acceso al aborto legal Nueva York – El día de hoy, una peruana de 16 años de edad, quien sobrevivió a una violación y sufrió consecuencias devastadoras después de que se le negara un aborto, presentó una demanda contra el Estado peruano ante el Comité de Naciones […]
UN Committee Rules Treaty Obligations Guarantee Reproductive Health Services (Updated 3.18.21) The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) ruled that Peru’s failure to guarantee access to essential reproductive health services, including legal abortion, violates international treaty obligations, including the obligation to eliminate discrimination against women in the field of health care and to […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights is deeply disappointed with President Obama’s failure to strike government funding restrictions on abortion, particularly the Hyde Amendment, from his proposed budget for 2010. The budget does, however, propose defunding abstinence-only sex education and creating programs aimed at reducing teen pregnancy. The Hyde Amendment bans federal funding for abortion in […]
“If President Obama follows his new science directive, then teenagers will have the medicine and knowledge to protect their health,” writes Nancy Northup in a letter to the editor to The New York Times’ today, commenting on news that President Obama has a new take on mixing science and politics. Science and Sex EducationPublished: March […]
After being sexually abused by her school’s vice-principal for two years, Paola Guzmán, a student in Ecuador, became pregnant and committed suicide. She was only 16. In October 2006, the Center filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) with our local partners in Ecuador on behalf of Paola’s mother. Recently, the […]
Today, on the Day for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the Center for Reproductive Rights calls on governments worldwide to take immediate steps to end the practice. They must enact and implement laws to prohibit FGM, while also working to empower women and promote respect for their basic human rights. FGM Threatens the […]