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2022 State Legislative Wrap-up

This report provides an overview of the state policy landscape after analyzing hundreds of bills proposed and enacted in U.S. state legislatures relating to reproductive care.

Legal Analyses

2022 State Legislative Wrap-up (Report)

State Policy Report: An overview of the state landscape

Abortion, Assisted Reproduction, Maternal Health,United States,Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Publications

Systemic Racism and Reproductive Injustice in the United States

The Center for Reproductive Rights joined a broad coalition of reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations to submit a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) in preparation for [...]

SRHR General,United States, United Nations,At the United Nations,Publications

State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, July 2022)

This Center report provides detailed analysis of state high court cases litigated by the Center that built strong protections for abortion rights and access using personal autonomy, privacy, and equality frameworks prior to the Dobbs [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections,United States,Reporting on Rights,Publications

The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment

How constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law can help strengthen reproductive rights going forward.

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(Report) The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment

This Center report delves into constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law that undergird the right to reproductive autonomy.

Abortion, Legal Protections,United States,Reporting on Rights,Publications

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda

This report by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the African Population and Health Research Center, and partners reveals that women and girls from low-income backgrounds in five African countries faced multiple barriers in accessing sexual and [...]

COVID-19, SRHR General,Africa,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Publications

Implementing Rights-based Accountability for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings (Report)

Read the report of the pilot study conducted by the Center and CARE International in Uganda.

Humanitarian Settings, SRHR General,Africa, Uganda,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Publications

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, April 2022) card link

State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, April 2022)

This Center report outlines 11 states in which high courts have recognized that their state constitutions protect abortion rights and access independently from and more strongly than the U.S. Constitution or have struck down restrictions [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections,United States,Reporting on Rights,Publications

Roe v. Wade

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling recognizing the right to abortion.

Publications

2021 Annual Report

Click on the image below to download the Center for Reproductive Rights 2021 Annual Report.

Books & Reports

Across Borders: How International and Regional Reproductive Rights Cases Influence Jurisprudence Worldwide

This report by the Center analyzes the legal influence of six landmark cases on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) around the world.

SRHR General,Accountability Bodies, Inter-American Human Rights System, European Human Rights System, United Nations,Publications

2021 State Legislative Wrap-up (Report)

State Policy Report: An overview of the state landscape

Abortion,United States,Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Publications

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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