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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 [...]
The Center wins a major victory for abortion rights in Africa
In a groundbreaking decision, the High Court of Kenya ruled that the Ministry of Health’s 2014 withdrawal of the “Standards and Guidelines for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality from Unsafe Abortion in Kenya” (Standards and Guidelines), and [...]
Nearly 200 Businesses Sign on to Publicly Support Reproductive Rights
CEOs Sign on for Repro Rights “Don’t Ban Equality” initiative is launched with full-page ad in the New York Times, backed by reproductive rights organizations, including the Center More than 180 CEOs, from a broad [...]
Mapping Abortion Rights Worldwide
The Center for Reproductive Rights unveils our fully updated, interactive World's Abortion Laws Map Tonight, the fully revised and updated World's Abortion Laws Map—the definitive record of the legal status of abortion in countries around [...]
Catalyzing Global Change for Women and Girls
Creating progress that can drive true gender equality for women and girls worldwide will be center stage at this week’s global international conference on the health and wellbeing of women and girls: Women Deliver officially [...]
Demanding Accountability
Latin America is the only region in the world in which the pregnancy rate for girls under 15 years of age is rising. Most of these pregnancies are the result of rape, frequently by family [...]
Strong Voices for Our Rights
Sponsors and supporters of the Women’s Health Protection Act explain why WHPA now At the reintroduction of the Women’s Health Protection Act on May 23, a powerful lineup of government representatives and leaders in the [...]
Members of House and Senate Make Bold Move to Protect Abortion Access
Congress Makes Bold Move to Protect Abortion Access Led by lead sponsors Rep Judy Chu (D-CA) and Sen Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the Women's Health Protection Act is re-introduced, to protect equal abortion access, for everyone [...]
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We’re Not Going Back
“We’re Not Going Back” Center President and CEO Nancy Northup speaks with Rachel Maddow on the escalating state-level attacks on abortion Last night, Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, appeared [...]
Unequal Access to Maternal Health Care in the EU
Access to quality maternal health care is a human right to which all women and girls are entitled. Regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, or any other social, economic or political affiliation, all pregnant persons are [...]
Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador
Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador El Salvador's draconian abortion ban has led over 40 women to decades-long prison sentences for suffering obstetric emergencies. They were separated from their families, and [...]
Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador
Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador
Kansas Supreme Court Says State Constitution Protects Abortion
Today, the Kansas Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A., et al. v. Schmidt & Howe, affirming that the state’s constitution protects Kansas women’s right to safe and legal abortion. [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.