OAS Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women, Calls Governments to Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) For the first time ever a committee within the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered to be the United Nations for the [...]

Fifth Circuit Greenlights Texas Law Which Will Immediately Shutter All But Seven Abortion Clinics in the Entire State Nearly One Million Texas Women Now Face Minimum of 300 Mile Roundtrip to Access Constitutionally Protected Health [...]

New Lawsuit Challenges Unconstitutional Oklahoma Abortion Restrictions Law Threatens to Reduce Access to Safe, Legal Abortion in Region Already Devastated by Similar Restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a new lawsuit in state [...]

New Report Debunks Politicians’ Disingenuous Claims about Protecting Women’s Health, Safety with Abortion Restrictions States with Highest Number of Abortion Restrictions Have Poorest Health Outcomes, Least Supportive Policies for Women and Children (PRESS RELEASE) States [...]

Center for Reproductive Rights Brings Forced Sterilization Case of HIV Positive Woman to Human Rights Commission Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hear Case on the Forced Sterilization of Chilean Woman Living with HIV (PRESS [...]

Spain Halts Extreme Abortion Law News follows resignation of Spanish Minister of Justice Alberto Ruiz Gallardón (PRESS RELEASE) Today Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced the withdrawal of a draft bill that would have criminalized [...]

Missouri Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto, Triples Waiting Period for Women Seeking Safe, Legal Abortion Services Missouri joins Utah and South Dakota to become third state to force women to delay constitutionally protected health care for [...]

Philippine Department of Justice Fails to Include Grounds for Abortion in Draft Criminal Code (PRESS RELEASE) More than 50 representatives from human rights organizations, academia, and other civil society groups in the Philippines and abroad, [...]

Leading Health & Human Rights Organizations Call for End to Unnecessary Restrictions that Harm Women’s Health Worldwide Diverse Coalition of 80 Groups Calls on the Obama Administration to Allow U.S. Foreign Assistance for Safe Abortion [...]

Federal Court Blocks Enforcement of Louisiana Law Threatening Women’s Access to Safe and Legal Abortion Clinics will remain open pending legal challenge (PRESS RELEASE) A Louisiana state law specifically designed to shutter abortion clinics across [...]