Systemic Racism and Reproductive Injustice in the United States
The Center for Reproductive Rights joined a broad coalition of reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations to submit a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) in preparation for [...]
(Report) The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment
This Center report delves into constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law that undergird the right to reproductive autonomy.
Global Trends: Abortion Rights 2022
This flyer illustrates the global trends in abortion rights since 1994: only four countries--including the United States--have regressed, while 58 countries have progressed.
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy
This Center report outlines 11 states in which high courts have recognized that their state constitutions protect abortion rights and access independently from and more strongly than the U.S. Constitution or have struck down restrictions [...]
What You Need to Know About the Historic Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court
On February 25, 2022, President Biden announced his intention to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement. Judge Jackson has had a [...]
Ensuring Equitable Access to Infertility Care in the United States: Guiding Principles for Policies Mandating Insurance Coverage
Inequities in health and access to healthcare, including infertility care, are pervasive in the United States. Well-documented disparities in access to infertility care reveal that people of color, people with low incomes, people with disabilities, [...]
2020 Legislative Wrap up
The Center for Reproductive Rights 2020 Legislative Wrap-up provides a report of U.S. state abortion laws enacted during the year. As states were forced to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, economic upheaval, and a racial reckoning, [...]
Submission to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Briefing on Maternal Health Disparities
The Center's written testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, submitted Nov. 13, 2020, discusses the real-life impacts of racial bias and discrimination in U.S. maternal health care; describes the U.S. government’s obligations to [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
The Undue Burden Standard after June Medical Services v. Russo
This report by the Center for Reproductive Rights analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June Medical Services v. Russo, a leading abortion case brought and won by the Center and decided in June 2020. The [...]
Pregnant Immigrants and Asylum Seekers During COVID-19: U.S. Government Abuses at the Border and Beyond
This issue brief outlines evidence of the mistreatment of pregnant immigrants and people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and in U.S. immigration detention, and discusses how existing policies have created the conditions for escalating [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
