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IN THE FACE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC, SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES ARE ESSENTIAL
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe – pushing healthcare systems to their limits and compelling governments and healthcare institutions to make difficult and increasingly urgent decisions about how to deliver care [...]
Trump Administration ‘Defunds’ Reproductive Health Services Providers in Texas
Yesterday, on the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) approved a previously-denied waiver request by the state of Texas for federal Medicaid funding to administer a [...]
California District Court Joins other Federal Courts in Vacating the Trump Administration’s “Denial of Care” Rule in Full
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, a California federal judge became the third judge in the U.S. to strike down the Trump Administration’s Denial of Care rule in its entirety. U.S. District Judge William Alsup also upheld the [...]
Trump Administration Postpones Denial of Care Rule
In response to the Trump administration’s announcement that the Denial of Care Rule will no longer go into effect on July 22, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Lambda Legal, Americans United for Separation of Church [...]
Emergency Request to Block Title X Rule Filed in Maine
Emergency Request to Block Title X Rule Filed in Maine After a nationwide block of the Gag Rule was lifted yesterday, the Center for Reproductive Rights is asking a court in Maine to re-block the [...]
Lambda Legal, Center for Reproductive Rights and Americans United Sue Trump Administration to Block Denial of Care Rule
Lambda Legal, CRR, and Americans United Sue Trump Administration to Block Denial of Care Rule (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Lambda Legal, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the postponement of human rights treaty bodies
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the postponement of human rights treaty bodies In a recent letter to treaty body chairs, Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced that due to [...]
Maine Title X Recipients Take Trump Administration to Court
Maine Title X Recipients Take Trump Administration to Court In an effort to block the Domestic Gag Rule, the Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Maine Family Planning (PRESS RELEASE)—Today, [...]
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Pakistan Court Orders Implementation of Measures to Address Obstetric Fistula
Pakistan Court Orders Implementation of Measures to Address Obstetric Fistula The Center for Reproductive rights welcomes a ruling by the Sindh High Court in Pakistan directing the government to implement measures to provide access to [...]
Trump Administration Finalizes Title X Domestic Gag Rule
Trump Administration Finalizes Title X Domestic Gag Rule The Center for Reproductive Rights will ask court to block rule in Maine Today, the Trump Administration released a final rule that would make sweeping changes to [...]
Court Strikes Down Discriminatory Anti-Abortion Law in Alaska
Court Strikes Down Discriminatory Anti-Abortion Law in Alaska Law that would withhold Medicaid coverage from women seeking abortions is declared unconstitutional Today, the Alaska Supreme Court struck down a state law and Department of Health [...]
Center Sues Kenyan Officials Over Recent Ban on Marie Stopes
(PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights and co-counsel Sofia Rajab-Leteipan of Leteipan & Associates Advocates have today filed a case at the High Court, Nairobi, against Kenyan government officials. The petition is challenging the [...]
UN Human Rights Committee Asserts that Access to Abortion and Prevention of Maternal Mortality are Human Rights
UN Human Rights Committee Asserts that Access to Abortion and Prevention of Maternal Mortality are Human Rights (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes and firmly supports the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s General [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.