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Major Reproductive Rights Organizations Launch Nationwide Network to Offer Abortion-Related Legal Defense Services
02.22.23 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, six leading reproductive rights organizations announced the Abortion Defense Network, a new program to connect people facing legal threats related to abortion care with trusted attorneys who provide legal advice [...]
Federal Bill Ensuring Medicaid Coverage for Abortion Introduced in U.S. House
01.26.23 (PRESS STATEMENT) – Today, the EACH Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representatives Barbara Lee, Diana DeGette, Jan Schakowsky, and Ayanna Pressley. This bill would guarantee that people using Medicaid [...]
U.S. House Holds Vote to Protect Abortion Nationwide
01.09.2023 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Tonight, House Democrats attempted to bring the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) for a vote as their first official action of the 118th Congress. However, they did not receive enough votes [...]
FDA Takes Steps to Expand Access to Medication Abortion
01.03.2023 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that mifepristone—one of two medications used in medication abortion—may now be dispensed directly to patients at pharmacies and through mail order pharmacies with [...]
La FDA toma medidas para ampliar el acceso al aborto con medicamentos
La autoridad de regulación de medicamentos en Estados Unidos permitirá de forma permanente el acceso al aborto con píldoras en farmacias y por correo
Montana Voters Reject Anti-Abortion Ballot Initiative
11.10.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) A Montana ballot initiative (LR-131)–which was strongly opposed by the Montana Medical Association and Montana Hospital Association–has been rejected by Montana voters. Designed to stigmatize abortion, the referendum was deceivingly named [...]
Kentucky Voters Reject Anti-Abortion Constitutional Amendment
11.09.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Kentucky voters have rejected Amendment 2, a ballot initiative that would have amended the state constitution to clarify that it does not protect the right to abortion. Because of Kentucky’s “trigger [...]
Californians Approve Constitutional Amendment Protecting Right to Abortion
11.08.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) California voters tonight approved Proposition 1, which adds language to the state constitution expressly ensuring the right to abortion. While the California constitution already protects the right to privacy, the constitution [...]
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Michigan Voters Approve Constitutional Amendment to Protect Reproductive Freedom
11.09.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Voters in Michigan tonight passed Proposition 3, voting to amend their state constitution to affirm the right of every Michigander to reproductive freedom, including the right to abortion. Earlier tonight, voters [...]
Vermonters Approve Constitutional Amendment to Protect Abortion in Landslide Vote
11.08.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Tonight, voters in Vermont overwhelmingly passed The Reproductive Liberty Amendment, choosing to amend their state constitution to affirm the right of every Vermont citizen to reproductive freedom, including the right to [...]
Elizabeth Banks Helps Raise $2.7 Million for the Center for Reproductive Rights at 30th Anniversary Gala
10.26.22 (PRESS RELEASE) —The Center for Reproductive Rights raised $2.7 million Tuesday night at its 30th anniversary gala in New York, with special guest Elizabeth Banks. The event was held just four months after the [...]
Federal Abortion Ban Proposed in Senate
09.14.2022 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Yesterday, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Senator Graham has falsely claimed that the ban would put the U.S. in line with European countries. Statement [...]
Statement from Nancy Northup on the Biden-Harris Administration’s Announcement on Actions to Further Abortion Access
08.26.2022 — On Friday, August 26, the Biden-Harris administration announced further actions to implement President Biden’s Executive Orders on abortion access (EO 14076 and EO 14079). Statement from Nancy Northup, President & CEO of the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
