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Center and Partners Promote Strategies to Expand Abortion Access at “Safe Abortion Dialogue-Asia” Conference
The Center for Reproductive Rights Asia team is playing a significant role this month at Safe Abortion Dialogue-Asia, a virtual conference focused on developing strategies to reduce barriers and expand access to safe abortion care in the region.
We’re Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, and We’re Braced for the Worst
Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s Shannon Brewer contributes an opinion piece to the New York Times describing what it’s like to be the clinic director at the only abortion clinic left in Mississippi, dealing with dozens [...]
Women’s Health Protection Act Reintroduced in Congress: “Abortion with Dignity and Without Barriers”
In this Ms. Magazine article about the 2021 reintroduction of the Women's Health Protection Act, Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, talks about recently released polling conducted by Hart Research [...]
Democrats reintroduce legislation to protect abortion access around the country
In an NBC News piece about the 2021 reintroduction of the Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA), Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, is quoted on the importance of WHPA, saying, [...]
Members of Congress Introduce Bill to Protect Abortion Access
06.08.21 (PRESS RELEASE) — Today, the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)—a bill that would protect the right to access abortion throughout the country—was introduced in the House by U.S. Representatives Judy Chu (D-CA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), [...]
Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)
Equal access to abortion care is essential for social and economic equality, reproductive autonomy, and the right to determine our own lives. But, in many places, accessing abortion care is extremely difficult, and for many people [...]
Women’s Health Protection Act Introduced in U.S. Congress to Protect Abortion Access
As members of the U.S. Congress introduce the Women’s Health Protection Act, the Center for Reproductive Rights is announcing new research showing that a solid majority of U.S. voters support passage of federal legislation that would protect the right to access abortion care throughout the United States.
Convicted for ‘advertising’ abortion, German doctors are fighting to share the facts
In this CNN article about a German law that prevents doctors from “advertising for abortion,” or even publishing information on abortion on their websites, Leah Hoctor, the Center for Reproductive Rights' regional director for Europe, [...]
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Biden’s Proposal to Lift Hyde Amendment Is a Step Toward Allowing Abortion Coverage for Medicaid Recipients
For the first time in decades, a president has submitted a budget without the Hyde Amendment, a policy that prohibits coverage of abortion care for people insured through Medicaid. It's now up to Congress to [...]
International Film Festival Features Documentary About Center’s Salvadoran Client
Teodora, a Center client who was unjustly imprisoned under El Salvador’s inhumane abortion law, is the subject of a documentary at a human rights film festival.
The Unique Dangers of the Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear a Mississippi Abortion Case
In this New Yorker article, the author states with the Supreme Court's decision to review a Mississippi abortion ban, the most pressing question now may be not whether Roe and Casey can survive, but how [...]
Hyde Amendment Omitted from President’s Budget for First Time in Decades
05.28.2021 Statement from Nancy Northup, president & CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: “Today’s release of President Biden’s budget proposal marks the first time in decades that a president has submitted a budget without the [...]
Bill Would Require U.S. Reporting on Reproductive Rights in Annual Human Rights Report
The Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act would ensure that the State Department, regardless of administration, is required to report on the status of sexual and reproductive rights in the Human Rights Reports.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
