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Joint Statement issued by Amnesty International, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Human Rights Watch on Upcoming Session of the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland
Amnesty International, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Human Rights Watch will be sending independent expert monitors to the forthcoming hearing of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal as the court prepares to issue a decision regarding [...]
Breaking: Slovakia’s Parliament Rejects Harmful Restrictions on Abortion Care
Today, the Slovak Parliament once again rejected pending legislation that would have introduced new regressive restrictions on women’s access to abortion care and subjected women to a series of harmful and medically unnecessary requirements prior [...]
Federal Court Strikes Down Tennessee’s Forced Waiting Period for Abortions
The law forced patients to delay their abortion for at least 48 hours after receiving state-mandated biased counseling Today, a federal district court struck down a Tennessee law that forced patients to wait at least [...]
Texas Ban on Standard Abortion Procedure Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court
Fifth Circuit says a law prohibiting Texas doctors from using the standard abortion procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional In a victory for Texans, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals today struck [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Opposes Confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett
Judge Barrett has the most extreme anti-reproductive rights record since Judge Robert Bork. Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights For only the second time since our founding in 1992, the Center for [...]
Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Tennessee’s Medically Unsound Medication Abortion “Reversal” Law
Despite medical experts agreeing there is no evidence that a medication abortion can be “reversed,” politicians pushed harmful law in an attempt to force providers to lie to patients Yesterday, a federal district court in [...]
Statement: Judge Amy Coney Barrett Nominated to the Supreme Court
Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights on President Trump’s Nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court Just one week ago, the American people lost a champion of [...]
Civil Society Statement of Solidarity with UN Special Procedures Mandate Holders
Following the U.S. government’s response to the human rights experts’ communication around abortion access in the United States in the context of COVID-19, the Center for Reproductive Rights, together with numerous other organizations, published a [...]
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Statement on the Death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg marks the passing of a legal giant who devoted her life to advancing the liberty and equality of women, first as [...]
North Carolina Abortion Providers and Reproductive Justice Activists File Sweeping Litigation Challenging Multiple Abortion Restrictions
Restrictions disproportionately impact Black North Carolinians and people in rural areas Abortion providers in North Carolina and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective today filed litigation challenging several medically unnecessary abortion restrictions that have [...]
El gobierno colombiano no debe reanudar las aspersiones con glifosato porque generan riesgos para la salud reproductiva
3 de septiembre de 2020 — El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos y la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Universidad del Valle presentan una investigación que revela que la exposición al glifosato puede tener impactos [...]
The Colombian government should not restart glyphosate spraying because it causes reproductive health risks
September 3rd, 2020 — The Center for Reproductive Rights and the School of Public Health of the Universidad del Valle present an investigation that reveals the negative impacts of glyphosate exposure on people's reproductive health, [...]
Tennessee’s Medically Unsound ‘Abortion Reversal’ Law Challenged in Court
Medical experts agree there is no evidence that a medication abortion can be “reversed.” Abortion providers in Tennessee filed a lawsuit today challenging a requirement that forces doctors to provide false and misleading information to [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
