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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 [...]
The Himalayan Times: The urgent need of comprehensive law
The Himalayan Times: The urgent need of comprehensive law By Sapana Malla Pradhan In Nepal, we just culminated a month long celebration acknowledging abortion law reform in this country, including the amendment to the Muluki [...]
New York Times Editorial: If Roe v. Wade Goes
New York Times Editorial: If Roe v. Wade Goes It is no secret that Mitt Romney and his running-mate, Representative Paul Ryan, are opponents of abortion rights. When Mr. Ryan was asked at last week’s [...]
Bloomberg: Laws Revive ‘World Before Roe’ as Abortions Require Arduous Trek
Bloomberg: Laws Revive ‘World Before Roe’ as Abortions Require Arduous Trek By Amanda Crawford "Over the past two years, state lawmakers across the U.S. have been passing new abortion restrictions at a record pace. Dozens [...]
Mississippi’s Lone Abortion Clinic Fights to Stay Open
Mississippi’s Lone Abortion Clinic Fights to Stay Open When he signed it into law in April this year, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant lauded House Bill No. 1390 as the "first step" to making Mississippi the [...]
Slate: Rape Exceptions Don’t Work
Slate: Rape Exceptions Don't Work By Amanda Marcotte "Irin Carmon has an excellent piece at Salon decrying, in light of the Akin controversy, the entire discourse around 'rape exceptions.' Carmon points out that when rape [...]
Baltimore Sun: City’s pregnancy center law gets new hearing
Baltimore Sun: City's pregnancy center law gets new hearing By Andrea Walker "A federal appeals court has granted a new hearing in a case challenging whether Baltimore can require faith-based pregnancy counseling centers to post [...]
Associated Press: Kansas judge won’t dismiss suit over abortion rules
Associated Press: Kansas judge won't dismiss suit over abortion rules By John Hanna "A Kansas judge refused Friday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two doctors who are challenging new state regulations for abortion providers, [...]
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Block the Law, Protect Women
Arizona: Block the Law, Protect Women A New York Times editorial is calling on a federal judge to block an abortion ban recently passed in Arizona. The Center for Reproductive Rights filed suit against the [...]
New York Times Editorial: Anti-Abortionists on Trial
New York Times Editorial: Anti-Abortionists on Trial "The state-by-state assault on women’s rights and the Constitution by Republicans faced an important challenge on Wednesday in Phoenix, where plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit are trying to [...]
Reality Check: The Truth About Abortion Bans Later in Pregnancy
The Truth About Abortion Bans Later in Pregnancy In April, Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law one of the most extreme abortion bans in recent memory. The Center took action in July to stop [...]
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Virginia’s controversy continues
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Virginia's controversy continues By Michelle Movahed, Staff Attorney, Center for Reproductive Rights Last month, the Virginia Board of Health rightfully honored its mission to promote and protect the health of all Virginians, rejecting [...]
New Beginning in Nepal
New Beginning in Nepal As the only global legal advocacy group dedicated to the advancement of reproductive rights worldwide, the Center set a goal several years ago to establish a strong presence in the places [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.