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Washington Acts for Women Advocates team up to garner remarkable Capitol Hill support for a federal bill protecting women’s access to abortion care. “There are women languishing around the country who cannot speak for themselves. [...]

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Teresa Is Free

Teresa Is Free The Center generated international pressure to release another member of El Salvador’s wrongly imprisoned “Las 17.” Last week, 30-year-old Teresa held a photograph of her young son as she took the stand. [...]

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Sign On Letter Calling on Oklahoma Gov. Fallin to Veto Senate Bill 1552

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U.S. State Department Letter Re: El Salvador’s Las 17

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Open statement on Zika virus

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West Virgina Governor Tomblin Veto Letter

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A Landmark Day

A Landmark Day As the Center argued a major case at the U.S. Supreme Court for the future of abortion access, supporters united outside for a powerful rally. The crowd was already loud and dense [...]

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Letter Calling on WV Governor Tomblin to Veto Senate Bill 10

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Trapped

Trapped A new documentary offers an inside view of the fierce battle to protect abortion access in the American South. “I’m hoping that what we’re seeing right now is the darkest night which will bring [...]

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Over the Counter

Over the Counter It’s time to put birth control pills where they belong: on the shelf next to condoms, spermicide, and emergency contraception. Savannah remembers feeling “extremely uneasy” on the first day of her first [...]

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Millicent Awuor Maimuna & Margaret Anyoso Oliele v. Attorney General and others, Constitutional Petition No. 562 of 2012, High Court of Kenya

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Whole Woman’s Health Student Guide

This semester, our nation’s highest court will hear arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, a crucial case that will impact our ability to make personal decisions about our reproductive health for generations to come. [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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