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Michigan Senate Committee Follows House’s Lead, Advances Extreme Anti-Choice Legislation with Virtually Zero Notice
Michigan Senate Committee Advances Extreme Anti-Choice Legislation (PRESS RELEASE) After providing legislators and the public with only a few hours’ notice, today the Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee advanced an extreme anti-choice measure that would virtually [...]
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 [...]
New Beginning in Nepal
New Beginning in Nepal As the only global legal advocacy group dedicated to the advancement of reproductive rights worldwide, the Center set a goal several years ago to establish a strong presence in the places [...]
States’ Rights and Anti-Choice Hypocrisy
States’ Rights and Anti-Choice Hypocrisy Anti-choice legislators have proven time and again their disregard for principle or consistency in their approach to important issues. Jezebel documents Iowa Rep. Steve King's manic approach to states' rights, [...]
2012 At the Midpoint: The Assault Continues
2012 At the Midpoint: The Assault Continues There's no question that 2011 was a truly seismic year for reproductive rights in the U.S. More than 60 laws damaging women's access to reproductive health care passed [...]
Rachel Maddow Show: Reprieve for Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic
Rachel Maddow Show: Reprieve for Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic Host: Rachel Maddow Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup sat down with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to talk about our fight to save the last remaining [...]
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, [...]
NPR Tell Me More: ‘Unconstitutional’ Miss. abortion law has to go
NPR Tell Me More: 'Unconstitutional' Miss. abortion law has to go Host: Maria Hinojosa NPR's Tell Me More guest host Maria Hinojosa talks with Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive [...]
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Salon: Imprisoned for giving birth
Salon: Imprisoned for giving birth By Irin Carmon "Only 43 percent of births in Kenya happen in a health facility (for reference, in 2009, 98.9 percent of births in the U.S. took place in a [...]
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 [...]
Civil Society Declaration for Global Fammily Planning Summit
International human rights groups are urging world leaders attending next month’s global Family Planning Summit to ensure that any effort to increase the use of contraceptives be a part of a broader strategy to improve [...]
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 [...]
CRR Celebrates 20 Years
CRR Celebrates 20 Years Twenty years ago on June 15, 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights opened its doors. A small team of lawyers had a vision to start an organization that coalesced around the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.