The Centre for Health and Resource Management (CHARM) v. State of Bihar is a public interest case that seeks to hold the Government of India accountable for the poor conditions in public health facilities in the state of Bihar. This case was filed after Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) undertook a fact-finding mission in Munger, […]
by Luisa Cabal, Director of International Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights Beatrice Wajiku was not a typical 14-year-old. Like most young girls, she enjoyed playing in the neighborhood and sharing secrets with friends. But unlike most teenagers she was the primary breadwinner for a family that had been wholly devastated by unbelievable poverty, crime, […]
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) Legislation introduced last night by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and 16 cosponsoring Senators would block ongoing efforts by anti-choice lawmakers to reimpose the Global Gag Rule on abortion—and the Center for Reproductive Rights is calling on Congress to pass it. The gag rule, championed by anti-choice administrations since 1984, prohibits family planning groups based […]
(PRESS RELEASE) As the joint House-Senate Supercommittee begins work tomorrow developing a bipartisan deficit-reduction plan, progressive organizations are cautioning members of Congress against adding policy riders to this year’s budget bill—calling such additions an “extortionist and back-room means of legislating” in a letter signed by 135 groups representing millions of members and supporters.The coalition, spearheaded […]
(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 […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/midyear_wrapup_HP.jpg What’s the worst thing about bad ideas? They’re catching. Once one state passes a new anti-choice law—no matter how outrageously invasive or unconstitutional—it’s on its way to being copied by anti-choice activists and legislators in other states, bound by the same goal: blocking women’s access to safe abortion and other reproductive health services. The […]
CHARM v. State of Bihar and Others is a public interest litigation petition filed in March 2011 by the Center’s partner in India, Human Rights Law Network. It seeks legal accountability from the state government of Bihar for its failure to provide essential maternal health care, including safe abortion services, in public health facilities, leading […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights applauded a report issued by a panel of scientific experts, recommending that the federal government require health insurance companies to cover a full range of contraceptive methods for women as a preventive service, without co-payments. The government requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a highly respected […]
By Kathy Finn “Henry Hyde, a champion of the anti-abortion movement, might turn over in his grave if he knew that a provision of law he authored was an obstacle to individual states banning abortion. The Hyde Amendment, named for the Illinois Republican who served in Congress for 32 years and died in 2007, initially […]