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Center for Reproductive Rights Calls President Trump’s Budget “Cruel and Short-Sighted”
Center for Reproductive Rights Calls President Trump’s Budget “Cruel and Short-Sighted” Budget attacks women who rely on Planned Parenthood, decimates Medicaid program, eliminates international family planning assistance (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Center for Reproductive Rights issued [...]
House Passes Dangerous Bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act and Gut Women’s Health Care
House Passes Dangerous Bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act and Gut Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) By a narrow margin of 217-213, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed the so-called American Health Care [...]
President Trump Signs Measure Reversing Obama Era Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care
President Trump Signs Measure Reversing Obama Era Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) President Trump today signed a measure which rescinds an Obama-era rule protecting health care for patients who rely [...]
Trump Administration Guts Funding to United Nations Population Fund
Trump Administration Guts Funding to United Nations Population Fund Latest attack on reproductive health services threatens programs to reduce unintended pregnancies and prevent child marriages (PRESS RELEASE) This week the U.S. State Department announced its [...]
U.S. Senate Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care
U.S. Senate Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care Two dozen Senators speak out against the measure, standing up for family planning (PRESS RELEASE) By a vote of 51-50—with [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on President Trump’s Proposed FY 2018 budget
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on President Trump’s Proposed FY 2018 budget President Trump's proposed budget would slash health programs for the most vulnerable and gut funding for global human rights bodies--threatening the wellbeing of [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Congressional Proposal to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Congressional Proposal to Repeal the Affordable Care Actection Act “Repealing the Affordable Care Act would decimate access to health care for millions of people and unravel one of the [...]
U.S. House Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care
U.S. House Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care (MEDIA ADVISORY) By a vote of 230-188, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to rescind a rule protecting health [...]
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31 Senators Call for Expanded Family Planning Services Worldwide in Response to the Zika Outbreak
31 Senators Call for Expanded Family Planning Services Worldwide in Response to the Zika Outbreak (PRESS RELEASE) Today U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Patty Murray (D-WA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) led [...]
United States Rejects Calls by U.N. Human Rights Council to End Harmful Restrictions on Reproductive Rights
United States Rejects Calls by U.N. Human Rights Council to End Harmful Restrictions on Reproductive Rights U.S. position leaves women without access to essential health services (PRESS RELEASE) This week the United States government rejected [...]
U.S. Senate Defeats Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding
U.S. Senate Defeats Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding (PRESS RELEASE) Pro-choice Senators blocked attempts to advance a measure today which would have stripped Planned Parenthood of all federal funding dedicated to [...]
Congresswoman Lujan Grisham Introduces Federal Bill Restoring Vital Health Care Services to Immigrant Women and Families
Congresswoman Lujan Grisham Introduces Federal Bill Restoring Vital Health Care Services to Immigrant Women and Families (PRESS RELEASE)—Women’s health advocates, health care providers, and immigrant’s rights leaders applaud Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01) for introducing [...]
113th Congress Saw Significant Pushback Against Attacks on Reproductive Health
113th Congress Saw Significant Pushback Against Attacks on Reproductive Health Members countered relentless anti-choice efforts—from abortion bans to attacks on health care coverage—with Women’s Health Protection Act, other proactive measures (PRESS RELEASE) In the face [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.