2015 State of the States: Fighting Back By Pushing Forward
Politicians in statehouses across the country continued to attack women’s access to vital health care services in 2015, introducing nearly 400 bills and enacting 47 new laws restricting access to reproductive health care this legislative [...]
Stand Up, Fight TRAP: A Policy and Advocacy Resource to Counter Clinic Shutdown Laws
Clinics across the country are being forced to close their doors, making it even harder for a woman to get the abortion care she needs, simply because some politicians want to play politics with women’s [...]
Nancy Northup on MSNBC: Stop the Deception
Nancy Northup on MSNBC: Stop the Deception Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, appeared on a segment of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry show to debate the continued public funding of “crisis pregnancy centers”—phony [...]
Texas Policy Harms Undocumented Women
Texas Policy Harms Undocumented Women Undocumented women in Texas often do not seek needed health care for fear of being stopped at checkpoints, while others are refused care due to their undocumented status. But in [...]
A Voting Rights Act for Reproductive Rights?
The following article was written by Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, as part of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law's publication titled "Legal [...]
State of the States: 2015 at the Midpoint
Troubling trends abound, but some bright spots provide hope for the future of reproductive health care access. 2015 saw the continuation of harmful trends in state legislatures to restrict reproductive rights and access, either through sham [...]
Center Attorney Talks Texas on NPR
Center Attorney Talks Texas on NPR A federal appeals court ruled earlier this week to uphold the Texas law that puts most of the state’s abortion clinics at risk of closure. The court reasoned that [...]
Nancy Northup in Time: It’s Personal, Not Political
Nancy Northup in Time: It’s Personal, Not Political A new study on fetal survival rates underscores the highly individual nature of reproductive health decisions and the importance of entrusting these decisions to those most affected [...]
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Op-Ed: Abortion ID Bill Unfairly Targets Immigrants
Op-Ed: Abortion ID Bill Unfairly Targets Immigrants The following was published in the Austin American Statesman on Tuesday, May 26: My name is Vero Higareda. I am 21 years old. I am an immigrant Latina. [...]
Annual Report 2014
The following annual report documents the momentum and impact of our work in 2014—from defending the very last abortion clinic in Mississippi, to spearheading introduction of a historic bill to protect reproductive freedom across the [...]
Fighting Back: Reclaiming Reproductive Rights in the 113th Congress and Beyond
The 113th Congress was another busy time for extremist politicians looking to make abortion and even contraception impossible to access. As detailed in the Center for Reproductive Rights’ new report, “Fighting Back: Reclaiming Reproductive Rights [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.