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CRR Blasts Health and Human Services Secretary’s Intervention to Block FDA Approval of Plan B One-Step for Over-the-Counter, All-Ages Use

(PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights strongly criticizes U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' decision to intervene and block the Food and Drug Administration's expected approval of emergency contraceptive Plan [...]

Contraception, Emergency Contraception,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In Washington D.C.,News

Salon: Who’s winning the abortion war?

By Irin Carmon "This was the year politicians and women’s groups started using 'war on women' to refer to the Republican obsession with regulating uteruses. So if it’s a war, who’s winning? The answer, frustratingly, [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA)

Verified Petition and Application for Restraining Order: Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al.

This case challenges the constitutionality of onerous regulations and a sham licensing process adopted and implemented by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) that will cause most of the abortion providers in the [...]

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Order Against Enforcement of the Act and Permanent Regulations: Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al.

This case challenges the constitutionality of onerous regulations and a sham licensing process adopted and implemented by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) that will cause most of the abortion providers in the [...]

Abortion, Anti-Choice Harassment, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts,Documents

Reproductive Rights Violations—Torture By Any Other Name

A woman living with HIV in Chile is forcibly sterilized while unconscious and undergoing a cesarean delivery. A Kenyan woman, along with her newborn child, is detained for weeks by hospital staff in miserable conditions. [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Discriminatory Policies, Maternal Health, Coercive Policies,Africa, Kenya, Asia, Philippines, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, Chile, United States, Accountability Bodies, United Nations,Reporting on Rights,News

Center’s shadow letter to the ESCR Committee on Ecuador

The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter for the review of Ecuador to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) during its 47th Session in December 2011. The letter discusses the [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Adolescent SRHR, Contraception, Emergency Contraception, Legal Restrictions,Latin America & Caribbean, Ecuador,At the United Nations, Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Documents

Carta sombra: Ecuador_CESCR_2011_Inglés

El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos presentó un reporte alternativo al Comité para los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (CDESC) durante el 47 período de sesiones en diciembre de 2011. El documento reporta acerca del incumplimiento [...]

Abortion,Latin America & Caribbean,Documents

CRR Calls Ban On Sex- and Race-Selective Abortions a “Cynical” and “Thinly-Veiled Attack” on Women’s Rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights is calling on members of the House of Representatives to reject the latest effort to restrict women's access to safe, legal reproductive health services-specifically targeting women in minority communities. Today [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,Engaging Policymakers, In Washington D.C.

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The “Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act”: A Dangerous and Cynical Attack on Women’s Health and the Right to Safe Abortion

Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) has proposed the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, H.R. 3541, attacking American women’s right to safe abortion under the guise of prohibiting “discrimination against the unborn.” Representative [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Publications

Agreed Order Regarding TRO & Status Conference: Hodes & Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al.

The case Hodes &, Nauser, MDs, P.A. et al. v. Robert Moser, M.D et al. challenges a recently-enacted regulatory scheme in Kansas that will prevent the provision of abortion services in any medical establishment not [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Documents

Harmful Anti-Abortion Licensing Scheme Blocked By Kansas Judge

(PRESS RELEASE) – A Kansas state judge has blocked enforcement of a recently enacted state licensing statute and regulations that reproductive rights advocates say would cut off women's access to constitutionally protected medical services, including [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA)

Comité de la ONU determina que Perú debe liberalizar las restricciones sobre el aborto

Bogotá - En el 7 de noviembre, el Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer (CEDAW) condenó a Perú por violar los derechos humanos de una mujer adolescente que requería servicios legales [...]

Abortion, Adolescent SRHR,Latin America & Caribbean

Los derechos reproductivos son derechos humanos

Los fundamentos jurídicos de los derechos reproductivos de las mujeres se basan en una variedad de derechos humanos reconocidos por el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos. Esta publicación delinea diez de los derechos humanos [...]

Abortion, Adolescent SRHR, Censorship, Contraception, Maternal Health,Latin America & Caribbean,Documents

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.