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Veto Letter to UT Governor Gary R. Herbert: House Bill 461
Read the Center for Reproductive Rights’ letter to Utah Governor Gary Herbert urging him to veto House Bill 461 which would impose the most extreme waiting period restriction in the country by tripling from 24 [...]
Veto Letter to GA Governor Nathan Deal: House Bill 954
Read the Center for Reproductive Rights’ letter to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal urging him to veto House Bill 954 which will endanger the health of pregnant women in Georgia who have a constitutional right to [...]
CRR Comments on ANPRM
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted comments in response to the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on "Certain Preventative Services Under the Affordable Care Act," published in the Federal Register on March 21, 2012. [...]
Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Fourth Circuit Panel Decision
Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Fourth Circuit Panel Decision
Understanding the Legal and Policy Framework on Abortion in Uganda
Abortion is legal in Uganda when done to preserve the life or mental or physical health of the pregnant woman, understood to include cases of sexual violence. However, unclear and often confusing abortion laws and [...]
Civil Society Declaration for Global Fammily Planning Summit
International human rights groups are urging world leaders attending next month’s global Family Planning Summit to ensure that any effort to increase the use of contraceptives be a part of a broader strategy to improve [...]
Best Practices for Protecting Women’s Reproductive Health: Submission to U.N. Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted information to the Independent Expert Review Group (iERG), a four-year panel that is part of the U.N. Secretary General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, on best practices [...]
Barrage of Lawsuits Challenging Women’s Health Care is Just a “Political Stunt”
(PRESS RELEASE) More than 40 Catholic groups filed 12 separate lawsuits across the country yesterday challenging the Affordable Care Act's copay-free birth control benefit for all women—a move the Center for Reproductive Rights has called [...]
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Center Issues Oral Statement before U.N. on Adolescents’ Reproductive Rights
This week, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development holds its 45th session. The commission monitors and evaluates the implementation of the Programme of Action, a global agreement adopted by 179 governments nearly 20 [...]
District Court Order on Permanent Injunction, Following Opinion by Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks denied the Center’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed in part and granted in part the State Defendants’ motion. Judge Sparks stated that the Fifth Circuit’s ruling had eviscerated First [...]
Fifth Circuit Opinion
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the district court’s preliminary injunction, which had blocked enforcement of key provisions of a Texas law requiring doctors to give women seeking abortions a [...]
UN Calls on Uganda to Fulfill Human Rights Obligations
One year ago, the Center for Reproductive Rights and our partner, the Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA - Uganda), submitted a joint letter to the Human Rights Council (the Council), which was about to [...]
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding human rights abuses of incarcerated women in the U.S.
The U.S. Legal Program, together with the Rebecca Project for Human Rights and Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH), submitted a letter to Mr. Manfred Nowak, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
