In July 2011, the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) urged the governments of Nepal, Costa Rica, and Zambia to improve their record on reproductive rights. The Center for Reproductive Rights, along with our partners, played an important role by submitting shadow letters that informed the CEDAW Committee’s recommendations. Nepal: Despite […]
On May 25, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Asociación Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir, the Centro de Investigación y Promoción para América Central de Derechos Humanos, Law Students for Reproductive Justice of the University of Washington School of Law, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Agenda Política de Mujeres, the Alianza de […]
On May 26, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the 49th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the status of reproductive and sexual health and rights in Zambia. Women and girls in Zambia languish because of the high prevalence of maternal mortality and morbidity. […]
On June 7, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Justice for All, and the Women’s Reproductive Rights Program of the Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development submitted a shadow letter to the 49th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls in Nepal. […]
Download the Preliminary Injunction Decision for Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey order below. https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/68-Order-55-page-Decision.pdf
This case challenges the constitutionality of onerous regulations and a sham licensing process adopted and implemented by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) that will cause most of the abortion providers in the State to cease providing ongoing abortion services. https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/12-Order-Granting-TRO-Pending-Hearing-on-App-for-TI-SIGNED-11-10-11.pdf
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/w-a-d-img.jpeg When doctors in India found out that Gita Bai was HIV-positive, they denied her pre-natal care. She soon returned to the hospital when contractions started—and the doctors physically barred her from entering the building. Gita delivered her child on the street outside the hospital. Doctors finally admitted her a couple days later when she […]
(REVISED 1.19.22) This case challenges a regulatory scheme that would have gone into effect on November 14, 2011. If enforced, the scheme would prevent the provision of abortion services in any medical establishment that does not meet burdensome and medically unnecessary licensing regulations. Case filed: November 9, 2011 State: Kansas Plaintiff(s): Hodes &, Nauser, MDs, […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Closing the door to massive infringements on women’s reproductive rights in Mississippi, voters in the state rejected today an extreme and dangerous “personhood” measure which would have amended the state’s constitution to define a fertilized egg as a legal person. The ballot initiative held the potential to not only ban abortion under all […]
Federal Court Blocks Demeaning North Carolina Ultrasound Law Middle District Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Preventing Key Measures of Intrusive and Biased Law from Going into Effect Tomorrow, Court Says Plaintiffs ‘Are Likely to Succeed on the Merits of the First Amendment Challenge’ (PRESS RELEASE) U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles granted in part a preliminary injunction […]