2012 At the Midpoint: The Assault Continues There's no question that 2011 was a truly seismic year for reproductive rights in the U.S. More than 60 laws damaging women's access to reproductive health care passed [...]

(Updated 12.02.21) In a landmark ruling, on November 30, 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has for the first time established standards throughout the region to help protect women seeking reproductive health care, including [...]

The Obama Administration's recently announced policy to require insurers to cover contraception as women's preventive health care has prompted many over-heated op-eds, editorials on both sides and even a thoroughly one-sided Congressional hearing. The controversy [...]

Country’s highest court rules to decriminalize abortion for women carrying fetuses with anencephaly (PRESS RELEASE) Brazilian women now have a right to access abortion if they are carrying pregnancies suffering from anencephaly—a severe fetal anomaly [...]

RH Reality Check: Silence and Denial Don't Work: Ireland, Malta, the European Union and the Lessons of Savita's Death by Johanna Westeson, Regional Director for Europe at the Center for Reproductive Rights Much has been [...]

      1) Religious liberty and the right of an individual to live according to his or her own religious conscience are supported, not threatened, by this policy.           The [...]

Newly-signed omnibus legislation enacts most extreme abortion ban in U.S., other severe restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the country’s most extreme anti-reproductive rights law of its kind—banning abortion procedures before [...]

The Himalayan Times: The urgent need of comprehensive law By Sapana Malla Pradhan In Nepal, we just culminated a month long celebration acknowledging abortion law reform in this country, including the amendment to the Muluki [...]