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Ignoring Precedent, Appeals Court Blocks Truth-in-Advertising Ordinance for Deceptive Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Baltimore
Appeals Court Blocks Baltimore Truth-in-Advertising CPC Ordinance Center for Reproductive Rights pledges to consider all available means of continuing defense of ordinance aimed at informing women of all available reproductive options (PRESS RELEASE) In judicial [...]
Personhood Falls Flat…Again
Personhood Falls Flat…Again Practice and repetition do not always guarantee success. Just take a look at the personhood movement for proof. The concept that fertilized eggs should have [...]
WHO Report: Safe Abortion is Essential to Protecting Women’s Human Rights
WHO Report: Safe Abortion is Essential to Protecting Women’s Human Rights States should eliminate barriers to abortion services, provide accurate information on reproductive health care (PRESS RELEASE) Providing women across the globe with access to [...]
Rwandan President Must Decriminalize Abortion, Pass New Penal Code
Rwandan President Must Decriminalize Abortion Advocates call on officials to further relax penalties for women who terminate their pregnancies, abortion providers (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights and Rwandan advocates are calling on President [...]
India Pushed to Prioritize Women’s Health
India Pushed to Prioritize Women’s Health Late last week, India came under pressure during its review before the U.N. Human Rights Council for continually failing to make the health of women and girls a priority. [...]
U.S. House to Vote on Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban
U.S. House to Vote on Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban Bill outlawing sex-selective abortions promotes racial profiling and barriers to constitutionally-protected health care, does nothing to address causes of gender discrimination (PRESS RELEASE) The full U.S. [...]
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 [...]
Un millón de voces para las mujeres hondureñas
¿Te imaginas vivir en un país donde se mete a las mujeres en la cárcel por usar anticoncepción de emergencia—incluso si fueron violadas? Este infortunado proyecto de ley quedó pediente ante el Congreso hondureño con [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
United Nations Adopts Groundbreaking Resolution on Young People’s Reproductive Health
Late Friday, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) issued a bold resolution supporting young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. The resolution not only reaffirmed that it is a basic right [...]
Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules “Personhood” Initiative “Clearly Unconstitutional”
Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules “Personhood” Initiative “Clearly Unconstitutional” Ballot initiative aimed to ban abortion, ban most contraception, and threaten fertility treatments (PRESS RELEASE) The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that a proposed ballot initiative [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Launches Legal Challenge to Keep Abortion and Contraception Ban Off Oklahoma Ballot
Center for Reproductive Rights Launches Legal Challenge to Keep Abortion and Contraception Ban Off Oklahoma Ballot Ballot initiative also threatens fertility treatments and medical care for pregnant women (PRESS RELEASE) Oklahoma’s proposed ballot initiative to [...]
Millions of European Women Struggle to Access Contraception
Members of European Parliament Host Roundtable on Human Rights Violations, Gender Discrimination (PRESS RELEASE) Millions of women living in European Union member states still cannot access affordable contraception or even get accurate information about it [...]
Senate Rejects Threat to Health Care Coverage for All Employees
Vote defeats attempt to allow any employer to refuse to cover critical health services for any reason (PRESS RELEASE) Protecting basic health care coverage for millions of employees across the country, today members of the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
