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Letter to Illinois Gov Rauner in support of HB40

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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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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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Governors in Montana, Minnesota Veto Measures Designed to Restrict a Woman’s Access to Safe, Legal Abortion

Governors in Montana, Minnesota Veto Measures Designed to Restrict a Woman’s Access to Safe, Legal Abortion State advocates, policymakers continue to push back against abortion restrictions (MEDIA ADVISORY) Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton vetoed two measures [...]

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Louisiana Continues to Defend Texas-Style Clinic Shutdown Law

Louisiana Continues to Defend Texas-Style Clinic Shutdown Law Louisiana appeals court order blocking abortion restrictions identical to those found unconstitutional by Supreme Court last summer in Whole Woman’s Health (MEDIA ADVISORY)  Despite last summer’s landmark [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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21 Members Of Congress Call On El Salvador To Decriminalize Abortion

21 Members Of Congress Call On El Salvador To Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Today Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Norma J. Torres delivered a letter from 21 Members of Congress, including House Foreign Affairs Committee [...]

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Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned After Miscarriage Granted Asylum

Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned After Miscarriage Granted Asylum (PRESS RELEASE) This week the Swedish Migration Agency granted asylum to Maria Teresa, a Salvadoran woman wrongfully imprisoned after a miscarriage who was absolved and released in [...]

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Inter-American Commission Holds Hearing On Forced Sterilization Of Chilean Woman Living With HIV

Inter-American Commission Holds Hearing On Forced Sterilization Of Chilean Woman Living With HIV (PRESS RELEASE) Reproductive health and human rights advocates gathered in Washington D.C. for a hearing in the case of F.S., a Chilean woman [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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