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President Trump Signs Measure Reversing Obama Era Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care

President Trump Signs Measure Reversing Obama Era Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care (PRESS RELEASE)  President Trump today signed a measure which rescinds an Obama-era rule protecting health care for patients who rely [...]

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Trump Administration Guts Funding to United Nations Population Fund

Trump Administration Guts Funding to United Nations Population Fund Latest attack on reproductive health services threatens programs to reduce unintended pregnancies and prevent child marriages (PRESS RELEASE) This week the U.S. State Department announced its [...]

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U.S. Senate Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care

U.S. Senate Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care Two dozen Senators speak out against the measure, standing up for family planning (PRESS RELEASE)  By a vote of 51-50—with [...]

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21 Members Of Congress Call On El Salvador To Decriminalize Abortion

21 Members Of Congress Call On El Salvador To Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Today Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Norma J. Torres delivered a letter from 21 Members of Congress, including House Foreign Affairs Committee [...]

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Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned After Miscarriage Granted Asylum

Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned After Miscarriage Granted Asylum (PRESS RELEASE) This week the Swedish Migration Agency granted asylum to Maria Teresa, a Salvadoran woman wrongfully imprisoned after a miscarriage who was absolved and released in [...]

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Texas Senate Passes Ban on Proven, Safe Method of Abortion

Texas Senate Passes Ban on Proven, Safe Method of Abortion (MEDIA ADVISORY)  The Texas Senate gave final approval and passed a measure today which would ban a safe, medically proven method of ending a pregnancy in [...]

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Inter-American Commission Holds Hearing On Forced Sterilization Of Chilean Woman Living With HIV

Inter-American Commission Holds Hearing On Forced Sterilization Of Chilean Woman Living With HIV (PRESS RELEASE) Reproductive health and human rights advocates gathered in Washington D.C. for a hearing in the case of F.S., a Chilean woman [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on President Trump’s Proposed FY 2018 budget

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on President Trump’s Proposed FY 2018 budget President Trump's proposed budget would slash health programs for the most vulnerable and gut funding for global human rights bodies--threatening the wellbeing of [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Congressional Proposal to Repeal the Affordable Care Act

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Congressional Proposal to Repeal the Affordable Care Actection Act “Repealing the Affordable Care Act would decimate access to health care for millions of people and unravel one of the [...]

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U.N. Committee: El Salvador Must Repeal Total Abortion Ban

U.N. Committee: El Salvador Must Repeal Total Abortion Ban (PRESS RELEASE) El Salvador should repeal its total abortion ban and pass a law that decriminalizes abortion in limited circumstances, according to the United Nations Committee [...]

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Texas Appeals Federal Court Order Blocking Unconstitutional Restrictions on Miscarriage and Abortion Care

Texas Appeals Federal Court Order Blocking Unconstitutional Restrictions on Miscarriage and Abortion Care Federal district court halted vague, burdensome regulations after legal challenge by Center for Reproductive Rights (MEDIA ADVISORY) The state of Texas late [...]

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U.S. House Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care

U.S. House Votes to Reverse Obama Administration Rule Protecting Women’s Access to Basic Health Care (MEDIA ADVISORY)  By a vote of 230-188, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to rescind a rule protecting health [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Confirmation of Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Confirmation of Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services “Tom Price has a dangerous record of attacking women’s health care and we are deeply troubled by [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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