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Obama Rescinds Global Gag Rule

Center for Reproductive Rights applauds President, urges further action New York— The Center for Reproductive Rights applauds President Barack Obama's swift executive order repealing the Global Gag Rule soon after taking office. This damaging policy, [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Conclusion of Grand Jury Investigation of Dr. George Tiller

On Thursday, July 3, a citizen-convened grand jury refused to indict Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. In a written statement, the jurors said they had not found sufficient evidence to accuse Dr. Tiller of [...]

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Kansas Supreme Court Limits Grand Jury’s Power in Abortion Patients’ Medical Records Case

NEW YORK -- Today, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the grand jury investigating abortion provider Dr. George Tiller cannot embark on a fishing expedition into his patients' medical records. The court ordered the lower [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Argues Before Kansas Supreme Court to Stop Grand Jury from Obtaining Patient Medical Records in Abortion Case

NEW YORK- Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights argued before the Kansas Supreme Court to stop a citizen-petitioned grand jury from obtaining the medical records of approximately 2,000 women who sought services from Kansas abortion [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Senate’s Vote to Repeal the Global Gag Rule

The Center for Reproductive Rights calls on President Bush to sign the bill repealing the Global Gag Rule. The President has repeatedly stated his commitment to cultivating democracy abroad and should therefore, take this opportunity [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on U.S. to Keep It’s Promise to Protect Reproductive Rights

United States Goes Before U.N. Human Rights Committee Geneva - Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights urged the United States to uphold the legal pledge it made under the International Covenant on Civil and Political [...]

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Statement by Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights

The Weldon Amendment New York - The Center for Reproductive Rights salutes both the California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) for filing lawsuits against the Weldon amendment [...]

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Court Shuts Down Man Who Fakes Abortion Services in Louisiana

After a hearing today, Judge Stanwood R. Duval of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana granted a preliminary injunction against William Graham, a Louisiana man who has been operating a fake [...]

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Man Who Fakes Abortion Services to Appear in Hearing Wednesday

Defendant Expected to Represent Himself in Court As More Victims Come ForwardWHAT: Oral arguments will be heard regarding plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction against William Graham. Choice, Inc. v. Graham is a federal lawsuit [...]

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Louisiana Man Sued for Faking Abortion Services

Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against Metairie, Louisiana, resident William Graham on behalf of three women, a Metairie medical facility, one [...]

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Women’s Health Experts from Kenya and Peru Speak out on the Impact of the Global Gag Rule

New Report Documents the Gag Rule’s Devastating Effects on Unsafe Abortion in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Peru At a breakfast briefing on October 22, women's health experts from Kenya and Peru will discuss the devastating [...]

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North Dakota Supreme Court Throws out Abortion-Breast Cancer Lawsuit Against Clinic

Today, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled that an anti-choice protestor had no right to use a false advertising law to harass the state's sole abortion clinic. The decision maintains a lower court ruling that [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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