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We Look Forward to Seeing You!
Thank you so much for registering for "Are Your Reproductive Rights on the Line?" A confirmation has been emailed to you. We look forward to seeing you on November 10, 2010 at 6:30pm. If you [...]
Annual Report: Defending Reproductive Rights
Since its inception, the Center for Reproductive Rights has catalyzed the power of law and the moral force of human rights standards to attain reproductive self-determination for women around the world. Our pioneering litigation, tireless [...]
Dignity Denied: Violations of the Rights of HIV-Positive Women in Chilean Health Facilities
More women than ever before are living with HIV around the world, and too many of them suffer cruel reproductive rights violations. The Center's newest fact-finding report, Dignity Denied: Violations of the Rights of HIV-Positive [...]
UN to Nicaragua: Youth Have the Right to Contraception and Safe Abortion
This week, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) sent a clear and urgent message to Nicaragua: adolescents must have access to safe, legal, and confidential sexual and reproductive health services, [...]
Celebrating World Contraception Day
Did you know that the average U.S. woman who wants two children will spend five years pregnant, or trying to get pregnant, and 30 years trying to avoid pregnancy? Or that 215 million women worldwide [...]
Whose Choice: Download Report
How does Hyde affect a woman, the family she is working to take care of, and her community? This is the story that the new report, Whose Choice? How the Hyde Amendment Harms Poor Women, [...]
Whose Choice: A Timeline of the Hyde Amendment and Its Impact on Abortion Funding
When abortion was first legalized in 1973, federal funds were available to low-income women seeking medically necessary abortions who were reliant on the government for healthcare. In fact, at that time federal Medicaid funds paid [...]
Whose Choice: Press Room
Requests for interviews: Dionne Scott, Senior Press Officer (917) 637-3649 [email protected] If you are a reporter working on deadline during non-business hours, please send an email including your telephone number to our Senior Press [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Center Urges International Community to Utilize MDGs to Advance Human Rights
As world leaders gather in New York for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit from September 20-22, the Center for Reproductive Rights is urging leaders to fully incorporate human rights into efforts to achieve the [...]
Whose Choice: How the Hyde Amendment Harms Poor Women
One in 10 women in the United States depends on Medicaid for their healthcare coverage. But, because of a 1976 measure called the Hyde Amendment more than a million women have been denied funds to [...]
Whose Choice: Learn More
Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has been used to ban the federal government from spending money on abortion with very few exceptions. This means that low-income women enrolled in Medicaid have been most severely affected [...]
A First Look Back at the 2010 State Legislative Session
Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women's access to abortion, including mandatory delays, biased counseling provisions and other burdensome and unnecessary requirements. On average, more than six hundred bills are proposed [...]
Forsaken Lives: Slideshow
During a trip to the Philippines last spring, the Center endeavored to document the sights and experiences of women living under the country's blanket ban on abortion. In addition to a powerful video shot in [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.