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Legal Analysis: What Dobbs Got Wrong
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed nearly 50 years of precedent and, for the first time, eliminated a right grounded in personal liberty: the right to abortion. Its ruling in Dobbs v. [...]
2022 State Legislative Wrap-up
This report provides an overview of the state policy landscape after analyzing hundreds of bills proposed and enacted in U.S. state legislatures relating to reproductive care.
Colombia: Historic Advancement in the Decriminalization of Abortion
This fact sheet discusses the implications of the Colombia Constitutional Court's ruling in February, 2022, decriminalizing abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation.
En Honduras cada día la ley obliga a tres niñas violadas a ser madres
La prohibición absoluta del aborto es una violación a los derechos fundamentales de esas niñas.
The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment
How constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law can help strengthen reproductive rights going forward.
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights
How cases in state supreme courts can offer stronger and expanded legal grounds for protecting abortion rights.
Influencing SRHR Law Across Borders
A new report by the Center tracks the legal influence of six international landmark cases over time—and the result of groundbreaking litigation before international and regional human rights bodies to secure, protect and advance rights across a range of sexual and reproductive health issues.
CEDAW joint NGO submission: Cambodia’s surrogacy situation and surrogacy draft law for consideration by the Committee during its 74th session
The Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC), Gender and Development Network (GADNet), and Center for Reproductive Rights prepared this letter to assist the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee) in its review [...]
Supplementary Report on the Status of Adolescents’ Reproductive Rights in the Philippines: 2020 Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
The Asia Unit of the Center for Reproductive Rights together with Philippine-based partners submitted supplemental information for the adoption of the list of issues (LOI) for the Republic of the Philippines by the Committee on [...]
