Reporting on Rights
Abortion Rights in Trouble New Study Shows:
If Roe v. Wade Were Overturned Today, Over 70 Million Women and Girls In More than Half the Country Would be Impacted New York, NY If the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade today, millions of women in their childbearing years in more than half of the country could lose their right […]
New Abortion Study Finds: If Roe were Overturned Today, Millions of Women in More than Half the Country Could Lose Access to Abortion
The Center and Congressional Members to Hold Press Conference Washington, DC |Report will be available online October 5, 2005.MEDIA ADVISORYWHAT:The Center for Reproductive Rights along with members of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus will hold a press conference/staff briefing on the results of CRR’s new study, What If Roe Fell?What If Roe Fell? is the […]
Law 101: An Introduction to Domestic and International Legal Terms
This glossary and reproductive rights backgrounder is the perfect resource guide for those interested in reproductive freedom but not familiar with complex legal terms. The U.S. and international glossaries are a tool to help advocates and interested readers familiarize themselves with the legal perspective on reproductive rights reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/res_law101.pdf
Ashcroft Strikes Out
by Priscilla Smith September 10, 2004 As appears on Center for American Progress, www.americanprogress.org We have been down this road before. On Wednesday, a third federal judge held that the federal abortion ban is unconstitutional. Joining judges in New York and San Francisco who also struck down the law, Judge Richard Kopf of the U.S. […]
Governments Worldwide Put Emergency Contraception into Women’s Hands
Crafting an Abortion Law that Respects Women’s Rights: Issues to Consider
Portrait of Injustice: Abortion Coverage under the Medicaid Program
, State Coverage of Medically Necessary Abortions When abortion was first legalized in 1973, federal funds were available to low-income women seeking medically necessary abortions. But four years later, Representative Henry Hyde (Rep-IL) sponsored a bill that eliminated federal funding for abortion except when necessary to save the woman’s life. The Hyde Amendment has since […]
Yet Another Anti-Abortion Scare Tactic: False Claims of Breast Cancer Risk
Some anti-abortion activists rely upon phony medical claims as a way to deter women from choosing abortion. Motivated by their desire to overturn the United State Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade and to deprive women of the right to choose, anti-abortion advocates manipulate science about women’s health as […]
“Partial-Birth” Abortion Ban Legislation: By State
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2014-07-23-at-5.35.03-PM.png On June 28, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska ban on so-called “partial-birth abortion,” finding it an unconstitutional violation of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that guaranteed women’s right to choose abortion. The Supreme Court’s decision in Stenberg v. Carhart exposed these bans for what they are: extreme and deceptive […]