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Texas Supreme Court Says Kate Cox Can’t Get An Abortion in Texas

12.12.2023—Late last night, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against a Texas woman with a lethal pregnancy diagnosis seeking access to an abortion in the state. “This ruling should enrage every Texan to their core. If [...]

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Texas Woman Who Needs Emergency Abortion Forced to Flee State

12.11.2023 -- After a week of legal whiplash and threats of prosecution from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kate Cox has been forced to leave Texas to get healthcare outside of the state. Kate has [...]

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Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Ruling That Allowed Pregnant Woman to Have Emergency Abortion  

12.08.2023 -- Late tonight, the Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a lower court ruling that would have allowed Kate Cox, a Dallas woman with severe pregnancy complications, to have an abortion to protect her health [...]

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Texas Court Rules in Favor of Pregnant Woman Seeking an Emergency Abortion

12.07.2023 -- Today, a Texas state court has granted the request of a woman with severe pregnancy complications, Kate Cox, to have an abortion to protect her life, health and future fertility. Kate had been [...]

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Texas Woman Asks Court for an Emergency Abortion

12.05.23 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed an emergency lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman in Texas, Kate Cox, who needs urgent abortion care due to a lethal fetal diagnosis [...]

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Joint Statement on the Prosecution of an Andorra Abortion Activist card link

Joint Statement on the Prosecution of an Andorra Abortion Activist

Issued by Amnesty International, Center for Reproductive Rights, and Women's Link

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Written Opinion on the Right to Care and its Relation to Reproductive Autonomy Submitted Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Opinion by the Center and its partners argues that care—including caring for others, being cared for and self-care—should be considered a universal and autonomous human right.

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Even More Women Sue Texas After Being Denied Abortions for Dangerous Pregnancy Complications

11.14.2023 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, seven women who were refused medically necessary abortions joined a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights earlier this year against the state of Texas (Zurawski v. State of [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos recibió evidencia de las violaciones a derechos humanos en América Latina por el uso de glifosato y otros pesticidas card link

Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos recibió evidencia de las violaciones a derechos humanos en América Latina por el uso de glifosato y otros pesticidas

• La exposición a agrotóxicos causa devastadores efectos en la salud reproductiva, especialmente en mujeres y niñas de comunidades indígenas, negras y quilombolas. • El 51% de los agrotóxicos usados en el mundo se aplican [...]

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Human Rights Body Hears Firsthand Accounts of Fear and Danger Caused by U.S. Abortion Bans

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights holds first hearing on U.S. abortion access since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

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CIDH escuchó impactantes testimonios sobre los efectos de la prohibición del aborto en Estados Unidos

La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos realizó su primera audiencia sobre acceso al aborto en Estados Unidos, desde que la Corte Suprema revocó la protección federal constitucional al derecho al aborto en ese país.

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Ohio Voters Enshrine Abortion Rights Into Law in Historic Vote

11.07.23 (PRESS RELEASE) – Ohio voters have passed a constitutional amendment that enshrines reproductive freedom – including the right to abortion – in the state constitution. Voters turned out in record numbers to support abortion [...]

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State of Tennessee Attempts to Dismiss Case Filed by Women Denied Abortions in Dangerous Situations

11.02.23 (PRESS RELEASE) – Last night, the State of Tennessee filed a motion attempting to throw out a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of two Tennessee doctors and three women [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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