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Center for Reproductive Rights Applauds Congress for Bill Protecting Women’s Access to Contraception

Center for Reproductive Rights Applauds Congress for Bill Protecting Women’s Access to Contraception (PRESS RELEASE)— Members in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives today introduced a bill to repeal interim final rules issued by [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights to Fight Back in Court After Trump Administration Guts Women’s Access to Birth Control

Center for Reproductive Rights to Fight Back in Court After Trump Administration Guts Women’s Access to Birth Control Trump administration issues final rules allowing employers, universities to deny women insurance coverage for birth control (PRESS [...]

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Senate Votes Against ‘Skinny Repeal’ Bill and Gutting Women’s Health Care

Senate Votes Against ‘Skinny Repeal’ Bill and Gutting Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE)—Last night, the United States Senate voted against a ‘skinny repeal’ bill that would have rolled back aspects of the Affordable Care Act [...]

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Senate’s ‘Skinny Repeal’ Proposal Another Dangerous Attempt to Unravel Health Care for Millions of American Women

Latest Senate Attempt to Repeal ACA Will Hurt Women, Compromise Access to Essential Health Care Services (PRESS RELEASE)—The Senate this week plans to once again take up legislation that would kick millions of Americans off [...]

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Senate Votes to Advance Debate on Measures to Repeal ACA with Devastating Impact for Women’s Health Care

Senate Votes to Advance Debate on Measures to Repeal ACA with Devastating Impact for Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE)—Today, the United States Senate voted in favor of advancing  debate on legislation that would repeal the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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21 Members Of Congress Call On El Salvador To Decriminalize Abortion

21 Members Of Congress Call On El Salvador To Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Today Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Norma J. Torres delivered a letter from 21 Members of Congress, including House Foreign Affairs Committee [...]

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Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned After Miscarriage Granted Asylum

Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned After Miscarriage Granted Asylum (PRESS RELEASE) This week the Swedish Migration Agency granted asylum to Maria Teresa, a Salvadoran woman wrongfully imprisoned after a miscarriage who was absolved and released in [...]

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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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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Congressional Proposal to Repeal the Affordable Care Act

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Congressional Proposal to Repeal the Affordable Care Actection Act “Repealing the Affordable Care Act would decimate access to health care for millions of people and unravel one of the [...]

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Trump Policies Put Women’s Futures at Risk

Trump Policies Put Women’s Futures at Risk On the evening of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, appeared on MSNBC’s For The Record with Greta to [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court (PRESS RELEASE)  Today President Trump announced the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Gorsuch [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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