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Biden’s Proposal to Lift Hyde Amendment Is a Step Toward Allowing Abortion Coverage for Medicaid Recipients
For the first time in decades, a president has submitted a budget without the Hyde Amendment, a policy that prohibits coverage of abortion care for people insured through Medicaid. It's now up to Congress to [...]
The First 100 Days of the Biden-Harris Administration: Reproductive Rights, Health and Justice
In its first 100 days, the Biden-Harris administration has taken crucial steps to undo many Trump-Pence administration’s policies that undermined reproductive rights and access to health care in the U.S. and around the world.
Biden Administration to Rescind Trump-era “Domestic Gag Rule”
The Biden Administration on Wednesday issued a proposed rule to undo a harmful Trump-era policy, known as the “domestic gag rule,” that targeted the Title X family planning program with regulations limiting access to reproductive health care services.
Statement from Lourdes Rivera, Senior Vice President of U.S. Programs at the Center for Reproductive Rights, on President Biden’s Proclamation on Black Maternal Health Week in the U.S.
Today, President Joe Biden took a momentous step and brought national awareness to the U.S. maternal health crisis disproportionately impacting Black mothers by signing a proclamation recognizing April 11 through April 17, 2021 as Black Maternal Health Week. The proclamation [...]
Biden Administration Rescinds Global Gag Rule
President Joseph Biden has rescinded the “Global Gag Rule”—a devastating anti-abortion policy that undermined the health and rights of women around the world. The rule denied funding for foreign organizations providing abortion information or services. [...]
Declaración de la directora ejecutiva Nancy Northup sobre la Orden Ejecutiva del presidente Biden
Hoy el presidente Joe Biden emitió una orden ejecutiva que derogaba la Regla Global de Mordaza que había sido emitida de nuevo y ampliada durante la administración Trump; la derogación de la regla del Título X; retirar [...]
CEO Nancy Northup’s Statement on President Biden’s Executive Order
(New York) – Today, President Joe Biden issued an executive order repealing the Global Gag Rule that had been re-issued and greatly expanded during the Trump Administration; beginning the repeal of the Title X rule; [...]
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Center Urges Biden Administration to Take Quick Action to Advance Reproductive Health and Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights has called on the Biden administration to take quick and decisive action to reverse the Trump administration’s harmful policies and to move forward to advance human rights and reproductive rights [...]
CEO Nancy Northup’s Statement on the Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the 46th President of the United States
Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: Today’s inauguration of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th president of the United States presents an urgent opportunity to put human needs [...]
So, Joe Biden Won. Now, Activists Look at the Work That Still Lies Ahead
Harper's Bazaar quotes Center president and CEO Nancy Northup on the continued vulnerability of access to contraception and abortion care even after Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential race.
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Election of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the 46th President of the United States
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the election of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the 46th President of the United States Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights: The [...]
Natalie Dodson
Senior Advisor, Office of Population Affairs, HHS | Department of Health and Human Services
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