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In Pursuit of Justice
In Pursuit of Justice Imagine you go to the hospital or a doctor's office and receive the treatment that you need to stay healthy. On your way out the door, you are given a bill. [...]
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 [...]
Associated Press: Oklahoma Abortion Laws Unconstitutional, State Supreme Court Rules
Associated Press: Okla. Abortion Laws Unconstitutional, State Supreme Court Rules By Tim Talley "Oklahoma laws requiring women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound image placed in front of them while they hear a description of [...]
U.S. Doctors Support Contraception
U.S. Doctors Support Contraception Two organizations that represent tens of thousands of doctors in separate medical fields have publicly expressed their support for expanded access to contraception. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said [...]
UN CEDAW Pushes Chile to Guarantee Rights of Women Living with HIV
UN CEDAW Pushes Chile to Guarantee Rights of Women Living with HIV The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) finished its periodic reports on Chile and, in October, issued concluding [...]
CRR-CLS Fellow Published on Project Syndicate
CRR-CLS Fellow Published on Project Syndicate 2012-2014 CRR-CLS Fellow Margaux Hall recently published “From Bribery to Empowerment,” an op-ed inspired by her legal work on foreign bribery investigations and her time in Sierra Leone. To [...]
Ireland’s Abortion Law: Lives At Risk
Ireland’s Abortion Law: Lives At Risk Last month, Savita Halapannavar arrived at Galway Hospital 17 weeks into her pregnancy and suffering from severe back pains. Doctors informed her that she was having a miscarriage, and then, over [...]
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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Abortion Pill: Keeping Women Safe in Iowa
Abortion Pill: Keeping Women Safe in Iowa Across the country, anti-choice legislators have tried to choke off access to medication abortion, especially its use through telemedicine. They have falsely claimed that their intent is to [...]
Texas At It Again
Texas At It Again This week, elected officials in Texas began pre-filing some of the bills they hope to pass during the 2013 legislative session. A pre-filing certainly doesn't guarantee that a law will pass, [...]
European Court of Human Rights Issues Judgment in Z v. Poland
European Court of Human Rights Issues Judgment in Z v. Poland This week the European Court of Human Rights issued a disappointing judgment in Z v. Poland, a case brought by a mother, known as [...]
Opportunity for Change
Opportunity for Change In the months leading up to this election, hundreds of thousands of Americans stood up to demand an end to the relentless onslaught of attacks on women, doctors, and the rights of [...]
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 [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
