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Statement from Nancy Northup, President & CEO of Center for Reproductive Rights, on yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court order allowing the Trump administration’s travel ban to go into effect pending the legal challenges

Statement from Nancy Northup, President & CEO of Center for Reproductive Rights, U.S. Supreme Court RE: Travel Ban (PRESS RELEASE) - “We are deeply dismayed that the Supreme Court has allowed this discriminatory travel ban [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Commencement of Confirmation Hearings on Alex Azar as HHS Secretary

(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Senate began its confirmation hearings on Alex Azar for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), President Trump’s choice to fill a post vacated by Tom Price, who resigned following an [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights President & CEO Nancy Northup: Statement on HHS Secretary Price’s Resignation

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on HHS Secretary Price’s Resignation Today, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price – who packed the agency with anti-abortion extremists to chip away at women’s healthcare rights [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Warns Graham-Cassidy Imperils Women’s Health Care

Center for Reproductive Rights Warns Graham-Cassidy Imperils Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE)—Today the Senate Finance Committee held the first and only public hearing on the Graham-Cassidy proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which [...]

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Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Threatens To Decimate Women’s Health Care

Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Threatens To Decimate Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) The Graham-Cassidy health care bill, like previous iterations of efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), would have devastating impacts on women’s [...]

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Senate Republicans Keep Up Attack on Women’s Health Care Access and Services in Latest Devastating Proposal

Senate Republicans Keep Up Attack on Women’s Health Care Access and Services in Latest Devastating Proposal (PRESS RELEASE) – After pulling their initial health care proposal, Senate Republicans today introduced a revised health care bill [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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