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Trends to Watch It’s mid-2015. Do you know where your reproductive rights are? A new briefing explains. In just the first six months of 2015, three separate anti-choice bills arrived on the desk of Montana [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Legal Restrictions,United States,Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),News

A Vision of Health

A Vision of Health Many of the nation’s top reproductive rights voices convened in Washington, DC, to nourish our shared vision of reproductive health policy for the future. The audience clusters attentively around her as [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,United States,Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA), In Washington D.C.,News

Without a Prescription

Over-the-counter birth control. It’s a great idea in theory. But how do we get there? On the first day of her first year in college, Savannah remembers feeling “extremely uneasy”—and it wasn’t just freshman jitters [...]

Legal Restrictions, Other Barriers, Contraception, Legal Restrictions,United States,Engaging Policymakers,News

Syed & Others v. Province of Sindh & Another (Sindh High Court of Pakistan)

Pakistan’s Sindh Government increases access to obstetric fistula repair services to comply with orders by the High Court

Maternal Health,Asia, Pakistan,In the Courts,Case

The Waiting Game

Mandatory delays for abortion care hurt women. Yet they’ve become a popular weapon in the anti-choice assault on reproductive rights. Faith is a nurse from San Antonio, Texas. She has a full life—a challenging job, [...]

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FIDA-Kenya and others v. Attorney General and others (High Court of Kenya)

Kenyan High Court Rules Victims of Sexual Violence Have a Constitutional Right to Abortion   (Updated 3.18.21) Kenya’s High Court ruled that the Ministry of Health’s 2014 withdrawal of the “Standards and Guidelines for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality from Unsafe Abortion [...]

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Adams & Boyle, P.C. et al. v. Slatery, et al.

(Updated 8-12-21) This lawsuit was filed as a challenge to three unconstitutional Tennessee measures designed to close reproductive health care clinics and make abortion harder to obtain.  Two of the laws challenged have been permanently [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Other Barriers,United States,In the Courts,Case

Gainesville Woman Care LLC d/b/a Bread and Roses Women’s Health Center, et al. v. State of Florida, et al.

(REVISED 9.21.2021) Florida passed a law in 2015 forcing a woman to wait a minimum of 24 hours and make at least one additional trip to her health care provider before receiving an abortion.  The [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Other Barriers,United States,In the Courts,Case

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc. et al. v. Brnovich, Christ, et al.

(REVISED 7.20.2018) This lawsuit challenged an Arizona state law, SB 1318 (originally scheduled to take effect on July 3, 2015), which would have forced doctors to lie to patients by telling them that it may be possible [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Other Barriers,United States,In the Courts,Case

Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A., et al. v. Schmidt & Howe

(REVISED 4.07.2021) This lawsuit, filed on June 1, 2015, challenges a Kansas law (SB95) banning the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy in the second trimester—a law that could force some women to [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Other Barriers,United States,In the Courts,Case

Joint Statement and Call to Action for Philippine Government to Address Grave Violations of Women’s Rights

Joint Call to Action for Philippine Government to Address Grave Violations of Women’s Rights Joint Statement for the Philippine Congress to Examine the Harmful Impact of the Total Criminal Ban on Abortion In commemoration of [...]

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A Dangerous Limit

A Dangerous Limit Women need abortion options after 20 weeks. Here’s why. Last week the U.S. House passed a bill prohibiting most abortions after 20 weeks, with only narrow exceptions for women with life-threatening conditions [...]

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Chile Looks Forward

A promising piece of legislation could ease one of the world’s most extreme abortion bans. This past March, a 25-year-old woman suffering from terrible abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding sought emergency care at the hospital—where [...]

Abortion,Latin America & Caribbean, Chile,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,News

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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