2022 State Legislative Wrap-up (Report)
State Policy Report: An overview of the state landscape
European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview
The Center for Reproductive Rights monitors and analyzes European abortion laws and advocates for reform of laws to ensure that they reflect international human rights standards and best medical practice. For more than 80 years [...]
Colombia: Histórico Avance en la Despenalización del Aborto
This fact sheet discusses the implications of the Colombia Constitutional Court’s ruling in February, 2022, decriminalizing abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation.
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.
Factsheet: India MTP Amendment Act (2021)
This Center factsheet, released in September 2022, outlines and analyzes India's 2021 MTP Amendment Act, which aimed to reform the country's 50-year-old abortion law, the 1971 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.
U.S. Abortion Laws in Global Context (Fact Sheet)
In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, an onslaught of abortion bans have gone into effect throughout the U.S. Half of U.S. states are currently poised [...]
Global Trends: Abortion Rights 2022
An infographic showing the global trends in abortion rights.
Legal and Policy Barriers to Self-Managed Abortion (Report)
We envision a world where individuals seeking abortion care can exercise full reproductive autonomy without any impediments or gatekeepers. This includes the ability of individuals to have self-managed abortions, which are those performed through self-care [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, July 2022)
This Center report provides detailed analysis of state high court cases litigated by the Center that built strong protections for abortion rights and access using personal autonomy, privacy, and equality frameworks prior to the Dobbs [...]
(Report) The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment
This Center report delves into constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law that undergird the right to reproductive autonomy.
Protecting Abortion Access in Europe – A Call to Action
Following a decision by the United States Supreme Court taking away the constitutional right to abortion, the Center for Reproductive Rights joined more than 130 leading organizations, working to advance sexual and reproductive health and [...]
Aligning the Penal Code to the Constitution: The Malindi High Court Decision on the Question of Abortion in Kenya (Factsheet)
The case of PAK and Salim Mohammed v. Attorney General and Three Others, Malindi High Court
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, April 2022)
This Center report outlines 11 states in which high courts have recognized that their state constitutions protect abortion rights and access independently from and more strongly than the U.S. Constitution or have struck down restrictions [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.