Colombia: The Right to True and Accurate Information
Colombia: The Right to True and Accurate Information A decision is expected at any time on a Colombian Constitutional Court case revolving around women's fundamental right to information on sexual and reproductive health care. Back [...]
UN Urges the Slovak Government to Reform Reproductive Health
A recent review by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights found that Slovakia continues to fall short on certain key elements of reproductive health care. The Center for Reproductive Rights and [...]
Not Easy Being a Woman in Texas
Not Easy Being a Woman in Texas Anti-choice legislators in Texas have long been in the business of violating reproductive rights, demonstrated ever so bluntly last year when they pushed one of the most demeaning, [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Resources and Materials on Refusal Laws
Center for Reproductive Rights Resources and Materials on Refusal Laws The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other reproductive right opponents regularly proclaim that respect for religious liberty requires "conscience provisions," also known as refusal [...]
Sandra Fluke: Life After the Infamous Limbaugh Attack
Sandra Fluke: Life After the Infamous Limbaugh Attack It's been four months since the national debate over women's access to copay-free birth control and religious freedom exploded. In February, the Obama administration confirmed its new [...]
Barrage of Lawsuits Challenging Women’s Health Care is Just a “Political Stunt”
(PRESS RELEASE) More than 40 Catholic groups filed 12 separate lawsuits across the country yesterday challenging the Affordable Care Act's copay-free birth control benefit for all women—a move the Center for Reproductive Rights has called [...]
Over 700,000 Petitioners Demand Honduran Congress Reject Law Criminalizing Emergency Contraception
Advocates, lawyers, and citizens gathered today in protest on steps of Honduran Congress (PRESS RELEASE) Over 700,000 people have signed a petition demanding the Honduran Congress reject the latest attempt to criminalize the use or [...]
United Nations Adopts Groundbreaking Resolution on Young People’s Reproductive Health
Late Friday, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) issued a bold resolution supporting young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. The resolution not only reaffirmed that it is a basic right [...]
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Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma order on Personhood ballot initiative
On April 30, 2012, the Oklahoma Supreme Court issued a unanimous order stating that Initiative Petition 395 was "clearly unconstitutional," citing Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and could not be added to the state ballot in [...]
Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules “Personhood” Initiative “Clearly Unconstitutional”
Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules “Personhood” Initiative “Clearly Unconstitutional” Ballot initiative aimed to ban abortion, ban most contraception, and threaten fertility treatments (PRESS RELEASE) The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that a proposed ballot initiative [...]
Time to Get Emergency Contraception Right
The rules on who can get emergency contraception without a prescription are confusing. They don’t need to be, and they shouldn’t be, not for a drug deemed safe by government experts. A recent study, though, [...]
One Million Voices for Honduran Women
Can you imagine living in a country where women are thrown in jail for using emergency contraception—even if they were raped? This heinous law is currently pending before the Honduran Congress with a vote scheduled [...]
Protest to In re Initiative Petition 395, State Question No. 761 (OK Personhood)
This is a pre-election challenge to a blatantly unconstitutional ballot initiative proposed in Oklahoma that would define a fertilized egg as a "person," thereby banning abortion and most forms of contraception, as well as interfering [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.