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Court Lets Part of Tennessee Abortion Ban Take Effect
Law banning abortion if sought for reasons related to Down syndrome, race, or gender will take effect in Tennessee Today, a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals panel granted a request from the state of Tennessee, [...]
What Mississippi’s 15-Week Abortion Ban Could Mean for Access Across the Country
Teen Vogue quotes the Center's Hillary Schneller on how the case of Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban poses a fundamental challenge to Roe v. Wade.
So, Joe Biden Won. Now, Activists Look at the Work That Still Lies Ahead
Harper's Bazaar quotes Center president and CEO Nancy Northup on the continued vulnerability of access to contraception and abortion care even after Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential race.
Submission to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Briefing on Maternal Health Disparities
The Center's written testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, submitted Nov. 13, 2020, discusses the real-life impacts of racial bias and discrimination in U.S. maternal health care; describes the U.S. government’s obligations to [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Election of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the 46th President of the United States
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the election of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the 46th President of the United States Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: The [...]
Coming Abortion Fight Could Threaten Birth Control, Too
Kaiser Health News quotes Center president and CEO Nancy Northup on how other personal liberties could be threatened by a new abortion jurisprudence from the U.S. Supreme Court.
In Europe and the US, abortion rights are under renewed threat
CNN quotes the Center's Julie Rikelman about hostility toward abortion rights in the U.S. federal courts.
International Solidarity with Women and Peaceful Protestors in Poland
As organizations committed to the advancement of human rights and gender equality, we stand in solidarity with all those in Poland who for the last week have peacefully protested against the politicized attack on women’s [...]
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Revealed: $280m ‘dark money’ spent by US Christian right groups globally
Alejandra Cárdenas, director of global legal strategies at the Center for Reproductive Rights, tells openDemocracy that its findings “prove a manipulation we’ve been seeing for years by the US Christian right in Latin America and [...]
Amy Coney Barrett Has Joined The Supreme Court. What Happens To Roe V. Wade Now?
ELLE interviews Center president and CEO Nancy Northup on the effects the new Supreme Court Justice's "extreme record" and "vitriolic public advocacy" may have on abortion care and women's health.
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO Today, in a deeply divided nation while an election is already underway, the U.S. Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court [...]
‘Give women options’: Advocates push for decriminalization of abortion
Rappler reports on a panel on abortion rights in the the Philippines featuring Center senior legal advisor Jihan Jacob: "if the government denies women's access to abortion, 'we're also violating their fundamental human rights.'"
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal Rolls Back Reproductive Rights
The Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling to invalidate the constitutionality of access to abortion on the ground of “severe and irreversible fetal defect or incurable illness that threatens the fetus’ life” will further harm women and [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
