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Chile to Pass Historic Bill

Chile to Pass Historic Bill that Decriminalizes Abortion in Certain Circumstances Chile to Pass Historic Bill that Decriminalizes Abortion in Certain Circumstances (PRESS RELEASE) Today Chile’s Constitutional Tribunal voted 6 to 4 to pass an abortion [...]

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Federal District Court Blocks Four Arkansas Abortion Restrictions Due to Legal Challenge Brought by Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU

Federal District Court Blocks Four Arkansas Abortion Restrictions Measures could have effectively ended abortion care for many women in the state (PRESS RELEASE) A federal district court judge last night preliminarily blocked four abortion restrictions [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood File New Lawsuit Challenging Texas Measure Banning The Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion in the Second Trimester

CRR, PP File New Lawsuit Challenging TX Measure Banning Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion in Second Trimester Dangerous law puts medical decisions in the hands of politicians -- rather than doctors and their patients. [...]

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Chile’s Senate Passes Abortion Bill

Chile’s Senate Passes Abortion Bill (PRESS RELEASE) After more than two years of Congressional deliberations, today the Chile Senate passed an abortion bill that will allow women to access safe and legal abortion services in [...]

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Senate Republicans Keep Up Attack on Women’s Health Care Access and Services in Latest Devastating Proposal

Senate Republicans Keep Up Attack on Women’s Health Care Access and Services in Latest Devastating Proposal (PRESS RELEASE) – After pulling their initial health care proposal, Senate Republicans today introduced a revised health care bill [...]

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Salvadoran Teenager Wrongfully Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Experiencing Pregnancy Complications

Salvadoran Teenager Wrongfully Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Experiencing Pregnancy Complications (PRESS RELEASE) This week a nineteen-year old Salvadoran rape survivor who became pregnant and suffered a stillbirth was sentenced to 30 years [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Challenges Louisiana Clinic Shutdown Laws One Year After Historic Supreme Court Decision

Center for Reproductive Rights Challenges Louisiana Clinic Shutdown Laws High court’s landmark Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt ruling declared similar restrictions unconstitutional (PRESS RELEASE) — The Center for Reproductive Rights today filed a new lawsuit [...]

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Senate Republicans Unveil Dangerous Health Care Bill Which Robs Millions of Health Care, Withholds Abortion Coverage for Virtually All Women in the United States

Senate Republicans Unveil Dangerous Health Care Bill Which Robs Millions of Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) Senate Republicans today unveiled their health care bill that dismantles the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and pushes health care out [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU File New Lawsuit Challenging Four Abortion Restrictions Passed in Arkansas This Year

Center, ACLU File New Lawsuit Challenging Four Abortion Restrictions Passed in Arkansas This Year (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Arkansas filed a new [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Vows to Fight Texas’ Latest Attempt to Restrict Abortion

Center for Reproductive Rights Vows to Fight Texas’ Latest Attempt to Restrict Abortion Governor signs measure banning safe, proven method of abortion, also doubles down on regulations targeting women seeking abortion care, miscarriage management (PRESS [...]

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Dominican Republic Senate Halts Decriminalization Of Abortion

Dominican Republic Senate Halts Decriminalization Of Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Yesterday, the Dominican Republic's Senate (Congress’s upper chamber) voted against advancing a penal code that would allow women access to safe abortion services in cases of [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Leaked Trump Plan to Restrict Women’s Access to Contraception

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Leaked Trump Plan to Restrict Women’s Access to Contraception (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights issued the following statement after news outlets reported that the Trump administration is [...]

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Center Calls Upon Texas Governor to Veto Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions

Center Calls Upon Texas Governor to Veto Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Measure would ban safe, proven method of abortion, also doubles down on regulations targeting women seeking abortion care, miscarriage management (PRESS RELEASE) The Texas legislature [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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