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Center Calls Upon Texas Governor to Veto Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions

Center Calls Upon Texas Governor to Veto Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Measure would ban safe, proven method of abortion, also doubles down on regulations targeting women seeking abortion care, miscarriage management (PRESS RELEASE) The Texas legislature [...]

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Inter-American Commission Holds Hearing On Chile’s Abortion Law Reform

Inter-american Commission Holds Hearing On Chile’s Abortion Law Reform Center for Reproductive Rights, Isabel Allende, and Miles Offer Powerful Testimony on Importance of Decriminalizing Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Reproductive health and human rights advocates advocated for the [...]

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Trump Administration Expands Global Gag Rule

Trump Administration Expands Global Gag Rule U.S. State Department’s Plan Magnifies the Harmful Impact of the Global Gag Rule on Women and Girls (PRESS RELEASE) The Trump Administration released guidance on a policy that restricts [...]

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India Supreme Court Denies Abortion To Rape Survivor Living With HIV

India Supreme Court Denies Abortion To Rape Survivor Living With HIV (PRESS RELEASE) This week the Supreme Court of India denied a rape survivor living with HIV from seeking an abortion. In its ruling, the [...]

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Honduras Reinforces Total Abortion Ban

Honduras Reinforces Total Abortion Ban (PRESS RELEASE) The Honduran Congress halted a historic opportunity to reform the country’s total abortion ban. On Thursday, Congress refused to amend the abortion law in adopting a new penal [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Trump’s Appointment of Extreme Anti-Choice Activist Charmaine Yoest as Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at HHS

Statement on Trump’s Appointment of Anti-Choice Activist Charmaine Yoest to HHS (PRESS RELEASE) President Donald Trump today announced his appointment of Charmaine Yoest  to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the Department [...]

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Federal District Court Permanently Blocks Louisiana’s Texas-style Clinic Shutdown Law

Federal District Court Permanently Blocks Louisiana’s Texas-style Clinic Shutdown Law Center for Reproductive Rights secures major victory for Louisiana women 10 months after Supreme Court issues historic ruling striking Texas’ nearly identical clinic shutdown law [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on Montana Governor Steve Bullock to Veto Cruel and Unconstitutional Abortion Ban

Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on Montana Governor Steve Bullock to Veto Cruel and Unconstitutional Abortion Ban (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Center for Reproductive Rights called on Montana Governor Steve Bullock today to veto SB 329, [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

Inter-American Commission On Human Rights Opens Case Involving Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned

Inter-American Commission On Human Rights Opens Case Involving Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned (PRESS RELEASE) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)—a principal human rights body for the Americas—announced it will hear the case of Manuela, [...]

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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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Center For Reproductive Rights Statement On Confirmation Of Judge Neil Gorsuch To The Supreme Court

Center For Reproductive Rights Statement On Confirmation Of Judge Neil Gorsuch To The Supreme Court Following an unprecedented vote to change Senate rules yesterday, the Senate voted today to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee Judge [...]

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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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U.S. Senate Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care

U.S. Senate Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care Two dozen Senators speak out against the measure, standing up for family planning (PRESS RELEASE)  By a vote of 51-50—with [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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