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Raising Awareness: Black Maternal Health Week, April 11-17
The week aims to raise awareness around racial inequities in U.S. maternal health outcomes.
Colorado Becomes the 22nd State to Protect Abortion Rights
While many states race to restrict or ban abortion, other states enact measures protecting rights and access.
Center Report: More State Abortion Restrictions Passed in 2021 Than in Any Year Since Roe v. Wade
In 2021, states across the U.S. passed laws restricting and banning abortion at a rate higher than in any previous year since the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutional right to abortion in 1973. This [...]
Legislators, Advocates and Experts Collaborate at Center’s State Leadership Summit
Proactive strategies to advance reproductive health, rights and justice highlighted the discussions at the Center's State Leadership Summit.
Evaluating Priorities: State Lawmakers Must Prioritize Health and Well-being Over Abortion Restrictions
When state lawmakers push through laws restricting access to abortion, they often claim their aim is to protect the health and well-being of women, their pregnancies, and their children. But these claims rarely stand up, [...]
Center’s 2020 Legislative Wrap-Up Outlines Abortion Measures Passed in U.S. States
The Center for Reproductive Rights has published its 2020 Legislative Wrap-up, providing a report on state abortion laws enacted during the year. As states were forced to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, economic upheaval, and a [...]
Center Advocacy Efforts Will Help Improve Maternal Health in Georgia
Law Enacted to Extend Postpartum Medicaid Coverage Aims to Reduce Maternal Mortality, Racial Disparity Advocacy efforts by the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners helped lead to the enactment of a new law in [...]
Debunking Anti-Abortion Politicians’ Claims of “Protecting Women’s Health”
When anti-abortion state lawmakers push through laws restricting access to abortion, they often claim their aim is to protect the health and well-being of women, their pregnancies, and their children. But do those claims stand [...]
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Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Center Helps Expand Access to IVF in Maryland
New law to end discriminatory insurance coverage In a victory for people seeking in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in Maryland, the Center for Reproductive Rights, working in partnership with the Women's Law Center of Maryland, helped to [...]
Speak Out Now Against Health Care Discrimination
Today, the Trump administration continued chipping away at civil rights protections by proposing a rule that endorses discrimination in health care settings—putting patients’ lives and health at risk. This rule, published by the Department of [...]
Stop the Trump Administration from Erasing Women
New bill demands Department of State stop neglecting vital data on reproductive health care from its annual report on global human rights The Trump administration has made no secret of its commitment to erasing women [...]
Center Files Emergency Motion with the U.S. Supreme Court to Block Louisiana Law
Update: The United States Supreme Court issued a temporary administrative stay on February 1, preventing the admitting privileges law from going into effect today, February 4. The Court now has until Thursday, February 7 to respond [...]
Protect, Defend, Extend: State of the States 2018
Protect, Defend, Extend: State of the States 2018 In 2018, state legislatures continued their unrelenting attack on abortion access—our report examines those tactics, as well as how advocates are fighting back Opponents of abortion rights [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
