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Arizona Law Granting “Personhood” to Fetuses Blocked in Court
07.11.2022 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, a federal district court granted a request by Arizona abortion providers, physicians, and advocacy groups to prevent a 2021 law that grants “personhood” rights to fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs from being used to criminalize abortion services. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, all abortion providers stopped services […]
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Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika in Brazil
The goal of this report is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impact that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in Brazil. Secondly, this report analyzes the response to the Zika epidemic through both a public health and human rights lens, ultimately finding that there was a […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Trump Administration’s Attack on Title X Family Planning Program
Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Trump Administration’s Attack on Title X Family Planning Program (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights denounced the Trump administration’s latest move to block women’s access to critical health care through a proposed rule that would prohibit granting federal Title X family planning funds to family planning providers that […]
Nigeria’s Federal High Court Strikes Out Civil Society Organization’s Case of a Woman Who Was Illegally Detained and Died During Confinement
(PRESS RELEASE) The family of a woman who was illegally detained for the inability to clear her medical bill and denied emergency services leading to her death, yesterday had their case dismissed by the Federal High Court in Nigeria, due to a procedural irregularity that should not be applicable if the court had addressed the case […]
Center for Reproductive Rights President & CEO Nancy Northup: Statement on HHS Secretary Price’s Resignation
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on HHS Secretary Price’s Resignation Today, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price – who packed the agency with anti-abortion extremists to chip away at women’s healthcare rights and access from within – resigned from his post amidst a controversy involving the improper use of taxpayer dollars. Said […]
Testimony of the Center for Reproductive Rights on the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Proposal
The Center for Reproductive Rights respectfully submits the following testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance in strong opposition to the Graham-Cassidy-HellerJohnson proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act and reform health care. https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CRR_SFC-Testimony-on-Graham-Cassidy.pdf
Center for Reproductive Rights Warns Graham-Cassidy Imperils Women’s Health Care
Center for Reproductive Rights Warns Graham-Cassidy Imperils Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE)—Today the Senate Finance Committee held the first and only public hearing on the Graham-Cassidy proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which would deal a particularly devastating blow to women’s health care. Overnight, Senate Republicans introduced an updated version of the bill […]
Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Threatens To Decimate Women’s Health Care
Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Threatens To Decimate Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) The Graham-Cassidy health care bill, like previous iterations of efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), would have devastating impacts on women’s health. In addition to decimating Medicaid as we know it – gutting coverage for millions of women – and slashing […]
President Trump Signs Measure Reversing Obama Era Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care
President Trump Signs Measure Reversing Obama Era Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) President Trump today signed a measure which rescinds an Obama-era rule protecting health care for patients who rely on federal funding for family planning services like birth control and cancer screening through the Title X program. The U.S. […]