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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 [...]
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 [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on President Trump’s Proposed FY 2018 budget
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on President Trump’s Proposed FY 2018 budget President Trump's proposed budget would slash health programs for the most vulnerable and gut funding for global human rights bodies--threatening the wellbeing of [...]
As the Hyde Amendment Turns Forty, Center for Reproductive Rights Continues to Call for Repeal
As the Hyde Amendment Turns Forty, Center for Reproductive Rights Continues to Call for Repeal 40 years since passage of dangerous and discriminatory Hyde Amendment coincides with new national poll showing voters support lifting abortion [...]
States Continue to Defend Unconstitutional Clinic Shutdown Laws in Spite of Supreme Court Ruling
States Continue to Defend Unconstitutional Clinic Shutdown Laws in Spite of Supreme Court Ruling (MEDIA ADVISORY) Earlier this week the Center for Reproductive Rights requested a federal district court permanently block Louisiana’s Texas-style clinic shutdown law [...]
House Judiciary Subcommittee Holds Hearing Targeting Low-Income Women’s Access to Safe, Legal Abortion
(PRESS RELEASE) Despite facing a host of other issues related to access to critical health care services, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice earlier today held a hearing which focused on two [...]
Obama Budget Advances Reproductive Health at Home & Abroad, But Leaves Too Many Low-Income Women Behind
Obama Budget Advances Reproductive Health at Home & Abroad, But Leaves Too Many Low-Income Women Behind (PRESS RELEASE) President Barack Obama’s proposed FY2017 budget released yesterday includes steps toward expanding and promoting reproductive health care coverage [...]
President Obama Vetoes Congressional Measure Defunding Planned Parenthood
President Obama Vetoes Congressional Measure Defunding Planned Parenthood (PRESS RELEASE) President Barack Obama today vetoed a measure that attempted to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal key pieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The measure [...]
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U.S Senate Narrowly Passes Latest Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood
U.S Senate Narrowly Passes Latest Attempt to Defund Planned Parenthood Pro-choice champions attempt to block defunding language and protect women’s health clinics (PRESS RELEASE) Ignoring calls from elected officials and other key leaders, the U.S. [...]
U.S. Senate Defeats Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding
U.S. Senate Defeats Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding (PRESS RELEASE) Pro-choice Senators blocked attempts to advance a measure today which would have stripped Planned Parenthood of all federal funding dedicated to [...]
Senate Bill Would Ensure All Military Servicewomen and Dependents Have Equal Access to Contraceptive Coverage, Family Planning Counseling
Senate Bill Would Ensure Military Servicewomen, Dependents Equal Access to Contraceptive Coverage, Family Planning Sen. Shaheen and more than a dozen other Senators sponsor new legislation to extend comprehensive reproductive health-care coverage to non-active duty [...]
House Appropriations Committee Approves Abortion Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers
House Appropriations Committee Approves Abortion Coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers In passing an amendment offered by Rep. Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Committee follows Senate’s lead and grants Peace Corps Volunteers abortion coverage in cases of [...]
Playing Politics with Women’s Health: U.S. Senator Pits Women’s Health Protection Act Against Nationwide Abortion Ban
Playing Politics with Women’s Health: U.S. Senator Pits Women’s Health Protection Act Against Nationwide Abortion Ban (PRESS RELEASE) Today Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is expected to try to force a vote on his unconstitutional, nationwide [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
