More than one hundred advocates descended on Capitol Hill to boost support for the Women’s Health Protection Act and had great results. At the abortion clinic in Colorado where Klaira works, it is not at [...]

Human Rights v. World Cup “How can we balance our love of the game with our commitment to human rights?” asks Human Rights Watch Deputy Director, Iain Levine, in his timely opinion piece in Foreign [...]

Shaming El Salvador on the Global Stage Manuela’s story is the stuff of nightmares. The young mother from El Salvador had not been feeling well for several years. She sought medical attention for what seemed [...]

MSNBC: After Tiller In a frank and unsettling segment of her show, MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry talks to journalist Irin Carmon and the Center for Reproductive Rights’ Policy and Advocacy Advisor Kelly Baden in a discussion [...]

Women's Rights Hang In the Balance By Nancy Northup Imagine that a group of state legislators didn't like a particular religious denomination and decided to run it out of state by enacting new ­building codes [...]

Missouri Set to Triple Abortion Waiting Period In the latest erosion of reproductive rights in the U.S., the Missouri senate has voted to triple the length of the current 24-hour waiting period required before an [...]

WATCH: The Battle in Mississippi Amanda Allen, our State Legislative Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, appeared this past Sunday on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show to discuss the developing story out of Mississippi where [...]

Five Ways Arizona is Hurting Women In an April 21 article, Rolling Stone criticizes the state of Arizona as posing “some of the gravest threats to reproductive freedom” in the country, specifically because of its [...]

When Hospitals Put Patients Last Update: A state judge just temporarily reinstated the two doctors' admitting privileges. But the fight is far from over. The case is still moving forward. We will continue to keep [...]

Black Women & Bodily Autonomy The May edition of Essence magazine takes a look at what’s at stake for African-American women in the battle over reproductive rights. With extremist politicians passing an inordinate number of [...]