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Trends to Watch
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Center Attorney Talks Texas on NPR
Center Attorney Talks Texas on NPR A federal appeals court ruled earlier this week to uphold the Texas law that puts most of the state’s abortion clinics at risk of closure. The court reasoned that [...]
Nancy Northup in Time: It’s Personal, Not Political
Nancy Northup in Time: It’s Personal, Not Political A new study on fetal survival rates underscores the highly individual nature of reproductive health decisions and the importance of entrusting these decisions to those most affected [...]
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 [...]
Op-Ed: Abortion ID Bill Unfairly Targets Immigrants
Op-Ed: Abortion ID Bill Unfairly Targets Immigrants The following was published in the Austin American Statesman on Tuesday, May 26: My name is Vero Higareda. I am 21 years old. I am an immigrant Latina. [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Philippines In the Hot Seat
A momentous UN report exposes reproductive rights horrors in the Philippines. Tina Montales, her husband, and their eight children barely have enough to eat. A few rolls and coffee for breakfast. A couple of pounds [...]
CRR-CLS Fellowship Suspended
CRR-CLS Fellowship Suspended Sensing an important need to cultivate new, cutting edge scholarship and teaching on reproductive health, rights and justice, the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) and Columbia Law School (CLS) formed a [...]
Joint Statement with URGE regarding Teen Abortion Restrictions
Joint Statement with URGE regarding Teen Abortion Restrictions The Center for Reproductive Rights and URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity call on Texas lawmakers to reject attempts to make it harder for young people [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
