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CRR-CLS Fellowship Suspended
CRR-CLS Fellowship Suspended Sensing an important need to cultivate new, cutting edge scholarship and teaching on reproductive health, rights and justice, the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) and Columbia Law School (CLS) formed a [...]
Joint Statement with URGE regarding Teen Abortion Restrictions
Joint Statement with URGE regarding Teen Abortion Restrictions The Center for Reproductive Rights and URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity call on Texas lawmakers to reject attempts to make it harder for young people [...]
Texas Teens Under Attack
A slew of new bills in Texas targets some of the state’s most vulnerable teenagers. Over the last 15 years, Houston family lawyer Rita Lucido has seen just about everything when it comes to young [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights & American Constitution Society Honor Yale Student Leaders
Center for Reproductive Rights & American Constitution Society Honor Yale Student Leaders The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), in partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights, will present the third annual American [...]
Symposium at Case Western Reserve School of Law
Symposium at Case Western Reserve School of Law On April 17, 2015, the Center cosponsored the 2015 Law Medicine Conference: The Rhetoric of Reproduction at Case Western University School of Law. This symposium explored the [...]
Spring Webinar Series with LSRJ, the Center for Reproductive Rights & Ipas: Register Here!
Spring Webinar Series with LSRJ, the Center for Reproductive Rights & Ipas: Register Here! Join us on Monday, April 20th at 7pm EST for “Human Rights at Home and Abroad.” During this presentation, our speakers [...]
Lawmakers Force Doctors to Mislead Patients
Lawmakers Force Doctors to Mislead Patients Last week, the state of Arizona further invaded the doctor-patient relationship when the governor signed a new law requiring abortion providers to inform their patients about a scientifically unproven [...]
Crisis in the South
Over the last four years, access to abortion care has been shrinking all across the United States. In the South, the situation has become particularly dire. Last month, under the cover of night, a hooded [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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Texas Latinas Rising
A human rights hearing in Texas gave voice to the thousands of Latinas on the border whose health and rights are in jeopardy. On Monday, March 9, 2015, the forecast for the Lower Rio Grande [...]
2015 Student Policy and Advocacy Award goes to NCCU LSRJ!
2015 Student Policy and Advocacy Award goes to NCCU LSRJ! This semester, the Center is pleased to honor the North Carolina Central University chapter of Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) with the Center for [...]
Sarah Weddington Prize Winners Announced!
Sarah Weddington Prize Winners Announced! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 10th annual Sarah Weddington Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship co-sponsored by Law Students for Reproductive Justice and the Center for [...]
Announcing Innovation in Scholarship Awardee David S. Cohen
Announcing Innovation in Scholarship Awardee David S. Cohen The Law School Initiative at the Center for Reproductive rights is excited to announce the 2015 Innovation in Scholarship Awardee, David S. Cohen. David Cohen is an [...]
An “Abortion Ban” for Poor Women
An “Abortion Ban” for Poor Women Anti-choice politicians have pushed hundreds of different sham laws over the last few years, but all are designed to do just one thing: Make abortion care more difficult to [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.