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Virginia District Court Rejects Bid to Halt Lawsuit Against the Commonwealth’s Longstanding Abortion Restrictions
Virginia District Court Rejects Bid to Halt Lawsuit Against the Commonwealth’s Longstanding Abortion Restrictions Decision allows challenge by Virginia health care providers to move forward (PRESS RELEASE) A Virginia federal court today rejected the Commonwealth’s efforts to shut [...]
The Center for Reproductive Rights Sues the Department of State over Deletion of Reproductive Rights from the Annual Human Rights Reports
The Center Sues the Department of State over Deletion of Reproductive Rights from the Annual Human Rights Reports (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against [...]
Council of Europe Decision Calls on Poland to Immediately Grant Women Access to Legal Abortion Care and Services
Council of Europe Decision Calls on Poland to Immediately Grant Women Access to Legal Abortion Care and Services (PRESS RELEASE)The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe today called on Poland to immediately put [...]
Hearing Recap: Judge Kavanaugh’s Testimony Confirms Hostile Record and Philosophy on Reproductive Rights
Hearing Recap: Judge Kavanaugh’s Testimony Confirms Hostile Record and Philosophy on Reproductive Rights Read the summary of our report on the hearing During his confirmation hearing, Judge Brett Kavanaugh [...]
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Testimony Confirms his Hostile Record and Philosophy Towards Reproductive Rights
(PRESS RELEASE) Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, on the confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court: “The stakes of this confirmation could not [...]
Day 3: Leaked Email Reveals Judge Kavanaugh’s Views on Roe and “Precedent”
Day 3: Leaked Email Reveals Judge Kavanaugh’s Views on Roe and “Precedent” Concept of “settled law” rules the day—but past Judge Kavanaugh emails are unsettling Today was the last chance for the Senate and the [...]
Day 2: Judge Brett Kavanaugh Skirts Questions on Abortion
Day 2: Judge Brett Kavanaugh Skirts Questions on Abortion Kavanaugh vows to "follow Supreme Court precedent" — his record shows otherwise Judge Brett Kavanaugh, on the second day of his confirmation hearing, repeatedly refused to [...]
Texas Court Strikes Down Unconstitutional Texas Reproductive Health Restriction in Challenge Brought by Whole Woman’s Health and Texas Abortion Providers
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, a federal district court judge struck down a Texas measure requiring health care providers to bury or cremate all embryonic and fetal tissue from abortions, miscarriages, and ectopic pregnancy surgeries—regardless of their [...]
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Day 1: Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Hearing Begins: What’s at Stake?
Day 1: Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Hearing Begins: What’s at Stake? Amid considerable tumult, the Senate Judiciary Committee today began the hearing process to consider the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve as the next [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Opposes Confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Center for Reproductive Rights Opposes Confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh Kavanaugh’s judicial record, writing, and public statements are fundamentally hostile to reproductive rights (PRESS RELEASE) Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center [...]
Statement on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing Dates
Statement on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing Dates (PRESS RELEASE) Said Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: “Members of the United States Senate have a responsibility to understand [...]
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure reproductive rights are guaranteed in law as human rights, announced [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health Submit Amicus Brief in Support of the “Janes”
Center for Reproductive Rights, NAPAWF, NLIRH Submit Amicus Brief in Support of the “Janes” (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF), and the National Latina Institute [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.