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Going on Offense

Going on Offense On Capitol Hill, in the space of just a few hours, it's possible to witness some of the ugliest hostility toward women's reproductive rights in close proximity to the inspired conviction of [...]

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Extremism in Overdrive

Extremism in Overdrive As the director of the Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo, the only reproductive health care provider still offering abortion care in the entire state of North Dakota, Tammi Kromenaker is used [...]

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ACS Reproductive Rights and Justice Award

ACS Reproductive Rights and Justice Award On June 13, 2013, the Center for Reproductive Rights, in partnership with the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), presented the first annual ACS Reproductive Rights and [...]

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Ireland’s Law a Modest Step Forward

Ireland’s Law a Modest Step Forward Technically, abortion has been legal in Ireland for two decades, but under extremely narrow circumstances. In practical terms, though, legal exceptions to a near total ban on abortion were [...]

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El Salvador’s Disgrace

El Salvador’s Disgrace The Center’s president and CEO, Nancy Northup, reflects on the agonizing plight of an El Salvadoran woman known publicly as Beatriz, who for many weeks has faced the risk of death and [...]

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No Relief in Ireland

No Relief in Ireland When Amanda Kellet and James Burke went to a Dublin hospital for their 21-week ultrasound, they were looking forward to finding out whether they were having a boy or a girl. [...]

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Judge Condemns Latest Fed Delays on EC

Judge Condemns Latest Fed Delays on EC Just weeks after issuing a landmark decision in the Center’s epic battle to make emergency contraception available to all women without a prescription, Judge Edward Korman was back [...]

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A Ban By Any Other Name

A Ban By Any Other Name by Nancy Northup, President & CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights Since the day the United States Supreme Court found in Roe v. Wade constitutional protections for women's right to [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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Forced to Surrender

Forced to Surrender A New Orleans medical clinic had no choice but to close after a withering, years-long attack by the government designed to stop abortions. Maria Couevas is anything but a quitter. The facts [...]

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CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan

CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) recently issued concluding observations from its February review of [...]

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Pursuit of Justice

Pursuit of Justice The story of Polish daughter and mother P and S is deeply complicated. P, a teenager, was raped and became pregnant as a consequence. She wanted to terminate the pregnancy and had [...]

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France: Reproductive Health Care Now Free

France: Reproductive Health Care Now Free As of April 1, women in France who need an abortion can get one without worrying about whether they can afford it. The government will pay 100 percent of [...]

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Updated Undue Burden Module is now available

Updated Undue Burden Module is now available This newly updated Undue Burden Module serves to break down Casey’s undue burden standard, to analyze its separate components, and to introduce students to a variety of judicial [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.