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Whose Choice: Abortion Funds–Providing Critical Support to Women in Need

How does Hyde affect a woman, the family she is working to take care of, and her community? This is the story that the new report, Whose Choice? How the Hyde Amendment Harms Poor Women, [...]

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Whose Choice: State Funding for Abortion Under Medicaid

How does Hyde affect a woman, the family she is working to take care of, and her community? This is the story that the new report, Whose Choice? How the Hyde Amendment Harms Poor Women, [...]

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Whose Choice: How Hyde and Medicaid Work

How does Hyde affect a woman, the family she is working to take care of, and her community? This is the story that the new report, Whose Choice? How the Hyde Amendment Harms Poor Women, [...]

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Whose Choice: Executive Summary

How does Hyde affect a woman, the family she is working to take care of, and her community? This is the story that the new report, Whose Choice? How the Hyde Amendment Harms Poor Women, [...]

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Download: CRR Opposes Colorado’s Personhood Initiative

The Center for Reproductive Rights opposes Colorado Proposed Amendment 62, which would amend the Colorado Constitution to define the word "person" to include "every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that [...]

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Download: A First Look Back at the 2010 State Legislative Session

Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women's access to abortion, including mandatory delays, biased counseling provisions and other burdensome and unnecessary requirements. On average, more than six hundred bills are proposed [...]

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Alaska Parental Notification Ballot Measure Hurts Teens

Today, the Center released a statement opposing Alaska Ballot Measure 2, a proposed mandatory parental notification law that would endanger teens. Alaskans go to the polls on August 24th to vote on the measure. Click [...]

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Veto Letter to FL Governor Crist: Legislative Bill 1143

Dear Governor Crist, The Center for Reproductive Rights opposes House Bill 1143 and strongly urges you to veto this measure. House Bill 1143 would enact one of the most extreme ultrasound laws proposed in the [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

Submission to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Maternal Mortality, Morbidity and Human Rights

Submission to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the preparation of the thematic study on Maternal Mortality, Morbidity and Human Rights This submission responds to the OHCHR Note Verbale's [...]

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Oral Intervention re: Poland:14th Session of the Human Rights Council

06.04.10 - The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health on his visit to Poland. We share the concerns voiced by the Special Rapporteur in [...]

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Veto Letter to OK Governor Brad Henry: Legislative Bill 3284

Read the Center for Reproductive Right's letter to Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry urging him to veto Legislative Bill 3284, a bill that would enact the most onerous, burdensome, and intrusive abortion reporting requirements in the [...]

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Women and the Law: International and Comparative Law Supplement

To support and expand the teaching of reproductive health and rights in law school curricula, the Law School Initiative has undertaken a series of regional discussions with law faculty about the challenges of teaching reproductive [...]

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Statement to ECOSOC: Maternal Mortality and the MDGs (PDF)

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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