CRR Implores Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Address El Salvador’s Absolute Abortion Ban (PRESS RELEASE) This week the Center for Reproductive Rights along with local Salvadoran organization Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto Ético, Terapéutico y Eugenésico filed a precautionary measure before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, asking for leniency and humane […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_FH_Decrim_Abortion_Day_2012.jpg International Day of Decriminalization of Abortion In 2008, Manuela, a 33-year-old mother of two from El Salvador, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison after suffering severe complications giving birth. From the moment that she arrived at the hospital seeking emergency health care, slipping in and out of consciousness and hemorrhaging, […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_feature_header_costa_rica_IVF.jpg Costa Rica’s IVF Ban and the Future of Reproductive Rights in Latin America Miguel and Ileana worked together for one year at a car dealership in the late 1980s. They fell for each other in 1989 and in love shortly thereafter. They married in 1992, Ileana’s three-year-old little girl took Miguel’s last name, and […]
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Hears Challenge to Costa Rica’s In-Vitro Fertilization Ban (PRESS RELEASE) In a case that will affect the ability of women and families throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to make their own decisions about their reproductive health and future, Costa Rica’s longstanding ban on in-vitro fertilization (IVF)—which has prohibited hundreds […]
Preying on Women Living with HIV/AIDS by Lilian Sepúlveda, Director of the Global Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_HP_img_Lilian_OpEd.jpg For almost a decade, I’ve been working at the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing and defending reproductive rights. Every day we fight for a future when all […]
Here’s A Story to Make You Nice and Mad https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_HP_image_DomRep_Abortion_0.jpg 07.26.12 – CNN.com is reporting that a pregnant teenager in the Dominican Republic is being denied cancer treatment because of the country’s abortion ban. The 16-year-old is dying of acute leukemia, but doctors are reluctant to give her aggressive chemotherapy because she’s nine weeks pregnant. The […]
Birth Control Alone Isn’t Enough by Louise Finer, Director of Global Advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_HP_image_Family_Planning_Summit_blog.jpg In 1996, a Peruvian woman named María Mamérita Mestanza Chávez died from complications of a forced sterilization in Peru. She was a low-income, indigenous Peruvian woman, who was coerced into agreeing to sterilization by government officials […]
(Updated 12.02.21) In a landmark ruling, on November 30, 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has for the first time established standards throughout the region to help protect women seeking reproductive health care, including abortion. The ruling by the Court—which is the highest judicial body for human rights in the Americas—came on November 30 […]