Letter to President Obama RE Review of Helms Amendment
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Letter-to-President-Obama-RE-Review-of-Helms-Amendment-.pdf
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Letter-to-President-Obama-RE-Review-of-Helms-Amendment-.pdf
By Margaret Hartmann “Though Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled the FDA’s recommendation to give everyone access to Plan B without a prescription, the battle to make the drug more widely available for women of all ages isn’t over. The Center For Reproductive Rights has reopened its 6-year-old New York lawsuit, and it […]
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 […]
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
Center will reopen its 2005 lawsuit against FDA and add HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as a defendant in the case (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights announced today it will reopen its 2005 lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for imposing unnecessary age restrictions on emergency contraceptives, and seek immediate relief to […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Late today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied the Center for Reproductive Rights’ 2001 Citizen Petition to make levonorgestrel-based emergency contraception available over the counter to women of all ages on the grounds the agency needs additional data—which a federal court decided two years ago was not necessary to make a […]
“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 […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO Nancy Northup again accused the Obama Administration of playing politics with women’s health today following President Obama’s remarks suggesting that sales of emergency contraceptives should continue to be restricted for young women under the age of 17 due to their potentially “adverse effect.” “When it comes […]
(PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights strongly criticizes U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to intervene and block the Food and Drug Administration’s expected approval of emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step for over-the-counter sale to women of all ages. “Six years ago, we sued the Bush administration for rejecting […]