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The Guardian: El Salvador abortion controversy shows lack of progress on Cairo agenda

The Guardian: El Salvador abortion controversy shows lack of progress on Cairo agenda by Luisa Cabal, Vice President of Programs "The treatment of a 22-year-old pregnant woman in El Salvador who was repeatedly denied potentially [...]

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Mother Jones: Republicans want to ban abortions after 20 weeks. Here’s how one group is fighting back

Mother Jones: Republicans want to ban abortions after 20 weeks "The Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based nonprofit, is at the center of the key legal battles over abortion and contraception. CRR filed the [...]

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Kenya Broadcasting Corporation: Center files case on unlawful detention

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation: Center files case on unlawful detention "The Center for Reproductive Rights has Friday filed a case before the High Court of Kenya on behalf of two women who were illegally detained in [...]

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RH Reality Check: Silence and Denial Don’t Work: Ireland, Malta, the European Union and the Lessons of Savita’s Death

RH Reality Check: Silence and Denial Don't Work: Ireland, Malta, the European Union and the Lessons of Savita's Death by Johanna Westeson, Regional Director for Europe at the Center for Reproductive Rights Much has been [...]

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DailyBeast: Martha Plimpton on Women’s Rights, Sandra Fluke, and Organization A is For

DailyBeast: Martha Plimpton on Women’s Rights, Sandra Fluke, and Organization A is For By Martha Plimpton “…[B]ack in February of this year, a young woman named Sandra Fluke was invited to testify before Rep. Darrel [...]

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DailyBeast: Isabel Allende-How a Mysterious Baby Girl Sparked My Fight for Women

DailyBeast: Isabel Allende- How a Mysterious Baby Girl Sparked My Fight for Women By Isabel Allende "Nearly two decades ago, I took a trip to India that would change my life. Touring some rural areas [...]

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Parade: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Meryl Streep & More Team Up for New PSA

Parade: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Meryl Streep & More Team Up for New PSA By Mary Margaret "Celebrities including Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Meryl Streep, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, and Lisa Kudrow have teamed up [...]

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Us Weekly: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and Amy Poehler Fight for Reproductive Rights in PSA

Us Weekly: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and Amy Poehler Fight for Reproductive Rights in PSA "Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and Amy Poehler are ready to draw the line. In an effort to bring attention to [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

RH Reality Check: It’s Time to Draw the Line on Attacks Against Reproductive Freedom

RH Reality Check: It's Time to Draw the Line! By Nancy Northup As we approach the 40th anniversary of the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, it has never been clearer what is [...]

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Jezebel: Celebrities Have Had it Up to Here With This Anti-Woman Crap

Jezebel: Celebrities Have Had it Up to Here With This Anti-Woman Crap By Erin Gloria Ryan "Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights has launched a star-heavy initiative called Draw the Line, which controversially asserts that [...]

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RH Reality Check: Forced Pregnancy Testing: Blatant Discrimination and a Gross Violation of Human Rights

Forced Pregnancy Testing: Blatant Discrimination and a Gross Violation of Human Rights by Onyema Afulukwe, Legal Adviser for Africa at the Center for Reproductive Rights Earlier this month, news spread of a Louisiana charter school's [...]

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Forced Sterilization Preys on Women Living with HIV/AIDS

Preying on Women Living with HIV/AIDS by Lilian Sepúlveda, Director of the Global Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights For almost a decade, I've been working at the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global [...]

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Salon: Imprisoned for giving birth

Salon: Imprisoned for giving birth By Irin Carmon "Only 43 percent of births in Kenya happen in a health facility (for reference, in 2009, 98.9 percent of births in the U.S. took place in a [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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