2016 State of the States: A Pivotal Time for Reproductive Rights
Politicians in statehouses across the country continued to attack women’s access to vital health care services in 2016, introducing more than 500 bills and enacting more than 60 new laws restricting access to reproductive health [...]
Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Threatens Women’s Care
Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Threatens Women's Care Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, spoke with Rachel Maddow about concerns that Rep. Tom Price, who is slated to be Donald Trump's [...]
Trump and the Supreme Court: What Happens Now?
Trump and the Supreme Court: What Happens Now? The consequences of Donald Trump’s election as president may be enormous for the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump has pledged to appoint conservative, anti-choice justices, [...]
Women’s Strike Defeats Abortion Ban in Poland
Women’s Strike Defeats Abortion Ban in Poland On October 3, seven million women in Poland went on strike, outraged by a proposal that would completely ban abortion—and punish women who end a pregnancy with up [...]
Breaking Ground 2016: Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive Rights
Breaking Ground: Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive Rights, an annual publication from the Center for Reproductive Rights, summarizes the jurisprudence from United Nations treaty monitoring bodies on reproductive rights, particularly the standards on maternal health [...]
Facing Uganda’s Law on Abortion
Maternal mortality continues to be a formidable factor in the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Uganda. Indeed 343 women out of every 100,000 women die from preventable pregnancy-related complications each [...]
Facing Uganda’s Law on Abortion: Experiences from Women and Service Providers
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Nancy Northup on PBS NewsHour
Nancy Northup on PBS NewsHour Watch Nancy Northup's appearance on the 6/27/16 episode of PBS NewsHour.
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Nancy Northup on All In With Chris Hayes
Nancy Northup on All In With Chris Hayes Watch Nancy Northup's appearance on the 6/27/16 episode of All In With Chris Hayes.
Nancy Northup on Maddow
Nancy Northup on Maddow Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic ruling strongly reaffirming abortion rights, Center for Reproductive Rights president and CEO Nancy Northup appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to discuss [...]
Pakistan Addresses High Rate of Fistula
Pakistan Addresses High Rate of Fistula The high court in Pakistan’s Sindh region is facing the country’s first case to seek recognition of the widespread incidence of obstetric fistula as a violation of women’s fundamental [...]
Progress on Reproductive Health in the Philippines
Progress on Reproductive Health in the Philippines One year after the publication of a groundbreaking United Nations report that held the Philippine government accountable for grave and systematic reproductive rights violations, there are signs of [...]
Annual Report 2015
The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the power of law to bring reproductive autonomy to women across the globe--whether we are winning freedom for one woman after almost a decade of wrongful imprisonment in El [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.