In August 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed an amicus brief to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Joëlle Gauer and Others —five women with mental disabilities in France who were forcibly sterilized—arguing that forced sterilization constitutes a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Case filed: […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Lawsuit Says Law Sacrifices Women’s Health to Ideological Agenda (PRESS RELEASE) The judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights to overturn a law severely restricting the use of medications to terminate pregnancies has granted a temporary injunction blocking the law’s enforcement. Today’s decision, handed down by Oklahoma […]
By Laura MacCleery, Director of Government Relations, Center for Reproductive Rights Last week’s vote on the anti-abortion measure, H.R. 358, was a disappointing new low for the House. The heated debate occasioned dueling letters by Rep.’s Jan Schakowsky (D.-Ill.) and the bill’s author, Rep. Joseph Pitts (R.-Penn.), about whether the bill would allow institutions and […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Reviving recent efforts within Congress to dramatically roll back women’s access to reproductive health services, today the House of Representatives passed radical legislation that would ban abortion coverage for millions of women across the country and allow healthcare providers, including hospitals, to refuse a woman emergency abortion services, even if she would die […]
This litigation challenges a law that would impose severe restrictions on physicians’ ability to provide medical care to women seeking pregnancy terminations that serve no legitimate purpose and run afoul of all available medical evidence. Filing Date: 10/5/2011 State: Oklahoma Plaintiff(s): Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice and Nova Health Systems d/b/a Reproductive Services Center Attorney(s): […]
By Aram Schvey, policy counsel for foreign policy and human rights, Center for Reproductive Rights You don’t ask a vegetarian where to get a great prime rib, or a teetotaler for a single-malt scotch recommendation. You don’t ask a bald man where to get a stylish haircut. So why would federal policymakers defer to a […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MM_HRC.jpg For the third year running, the UN’s Human Rights Council has focused its attention on the global problem of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. A ground-breaking resolution was adopted yesterday, in which States reaffirm their commitment to addressing the root causes of preventable maternal deaths and disability.Organizations like the Center for Reproductive Rights have […]
(PRESS RELEASE) As the Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote on a budget bill for the District of Columbia’s fiscal year 2012, the Center for Reproductive Rights called on members of the Senate to defeat any efforts to re-impose the longtime ban on abortion funding in the city. In the final bill funding appropriations […]
A coalition of human rights groups is speaking out against the practice of forced sterilisation of women with mental disabilities in France. On the 16 August, the Center for Reproductive Rights, European Disability Forum, Interights, International Disability Alliance and Mental Disability Advocacy Center, submitted written comments to the European Court of Human Rights in the […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2011-Update-Maternal-Mortality-in-India-1.gif This report is an update to Maternal Mortality in India: Using International and Constitutional Law to Promote Accountability and Change, published by the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) in 2008. Since its release, Maternal Mortality in India has been distributed extensively, and has been utilized in the development of several groundbreaking maternal health […]