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Salvadoran Teenager Wrongfully Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Experiencing Pregnancy Complications
Salvadoran Teenager Wrongfully Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Experiencing Pregnancy Complications (PRESS RELEASE) This week a nineteen-year old Salvadoran rape survivor who became pregnant and suffered a stillbirth was sentenced to 30 years [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Leaked Trump Plan to Restrict Women’s Access to Contraception
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Leaked Trump Plan to Restrict Women’s Access to Contraception (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights issued the following statement after news outlets reported that the Trump administration is [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Calls President Trump’s Budget “Cruel and Short-Sighted”
Center for Reproductive Rights Calls President Trump’s Budget “Cruel and Short-Sighted” Budget attacks women who rely on Planned Parenthood, decimates Medicaid program, eliminates international family planning assistance (MEDIA ADVISORY) The Center for Reproductive Rights issued [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
