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The Economist: Fertile grounds for hope

The Economist: Fertile grounds for hope Evelyne Opondo * SIR - Although it is true that modern contraception could play an important role in lowering birth rates in sub-Saharan Africa, governments must ensure that women [...]

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Think Progress: As Their Reproductive Rights Are Under Attack, Here’s How Texas Women Are Fighting Back

Think Progress: As Their Reproductive Rights Are Under Attack, Here’s How Texas Women Are Fighting Back Tara Culp-Ressler Earlier this month, when several Texas abortion clinics announced that they will be forced to close under [...]

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LA Times: Pact reached to keep North Dakota’s only abortion clinic open

LA Times: Pact reached to keep North Dakota's only abortion clinic open Michael Muskal North Dakota and its only abortion clinic have resolved part of their dispute over the state’s new abortion law, meaning the [...]

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Abandoned By a Nation

The Center filed a new case against Ireland to stop its health care system from turning its back on women in desperate need of help. It’s nearly impossible to go through this life and not [...]

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Women Must Have Control Over Their Own Bodies

Women Must Have Control Over Their Own Bodies [OP-ED] by Rebecca Brown Earlier this year France was the latest to join a handful of progressive countries to expand access to reproductive health services — with [...]

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Reuters: IWD 2014: No equality without reproductive autonomy

Reuters: IWD 2014: No equality without reproductive autonomy Nancy Northup Earlier this year, France’s National Assembly moved to amend its country’s laws to reaffirm women’s absolute right to end a pregnancy through the first 12 [...]

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WATCH: Texas Law Closes Two More Clinics

WATCH: Texas Law Closes Two More Clinics Amy Hagstrom Miller, owner of Whole Woman’s Health and our client, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night to deliver devastating news: the unconstitutional law passed in [...]

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Associated Press: Arizona sued over rules limiting abortion drug use

Associated Press: Arizona sued over rules limiting abortion drug use Bob Christie PHOENIX (AP) — Abortion providers said Wednesday that they have sued the state of Arizona to try to block new state rules limiting [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

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Downton Abbey & Black History Month

Downton Abbey & Black History Month Great piece over the weekend from Talking Points Memo writer Nicole Beisel. Beisel takes a look at a recent storyline on the popular television show “Downton Abbey” when one [...]

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Irish Woman Tweets Abortion Story

Irish Woman Tweets Abortion Story After receiving a number of “nasty” messages from anti-choice activists, a blogger in Ireland got angry, and then decided to raise her voice. According to The Guardian, Janet Ni Shuilleabhain [...]

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New York Magazine: Watch Mark Ruffalo Talk About Abortion Rights

New York Magazine: Watch Mark Ruffalo Talk About Abortion Rights Kat Stoeffel, The Cut Mark Ruffalo has been a known abortion rights advocate for about a year. But now he’s on tape — just in [...]

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The State of the States 2013

The State of the States 2013 The Landscape of Abortion Restrictions Passed in 2013 Over the past year, we have had to double the size of our team of attorneys and experts who track state [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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