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Personhood Falls Flat…Again
Personhood Falls Flat…Again Practice and repetition do not always guarantee success. Just take a look at the personhood movement for proof. The concept that fertilized eggs should have the same legal rights as a human [...]
20 Years of Attacks
20 Years of Attacks As the founders of the Center for Reproductive Rights prepared to argue Planned Parenthood v. Casey before the U.S. Supreme Court 20 years ago, there was a real concern that the [...]
A Landmark Win for Women’s Health
A Landmark Win for Women’s Health The news out of Washington today is excellent for women across the United States. The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act is a victory for all [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Resources and Materials on Refusal Laws
Center for Reproductive Rights Resources and Materials on Refusal Laws The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other reproductive right opponents regularly proclaim that respect for religious liberty requires "conscience provisions," also known as refusal [...]
The End of Abortion?
The End of Abortion? A new law threatens to shut down Mississippi's only abortion clinic. CRR fights back with lawsuit. On July 1st, Mississippi becomes the first state in the country with no abortion clinic. [...]
STILL Talking about Birth Control?
STILL Talking about Birth Control? Millions of women receive their health insurance through Catholic-affiliated businesses. And yet, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wants to deny these women the right to copay-free contraception—even though the [...]
Sandra Fluke: Life After the Infamous Limbaugh Attack
Sandra Fluke: Life After the Infamous Limbaugh Attack It's been four months since the national debate over women's access to copay-free birth control and religious freedom exploded. In February, the Obama administration confirmed its new [...]
CRR Celebrates 20 Years
CRR Celebrates 20 Years Twenty years ago on June 15, 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights opened its doors. A small team of lawyers had a vision to start an organization that coalesced around the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
This Week in Misogyny
This Week in Misogyny This week, news surfaced that a conservative congressional spokesperson called for action against women lawmakers who are fighting the war on women—in particularly inflammatory and violent language. "Let's hurl some acid [...]
PRENDA Defeated
The so-called “Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act” failed to get the two-thirds majority vote needed to pass in the House of Representatives. Sponsors of the bill claimed it combatted any abortion sought on the basis of gender, [...]
Groundbreaking Victory in Oklahoma: Medication Abortion Protected
Today, a court delivered another stinging rebuke to the Oklahoma legislature, striking down the government’s latest attempt to choke off women’s access to reproductive health services—an arbitrary and severe restriction on medication abortion. Judge Donald [...]
A Repugnant Attack—Defeated
With a unanimous decision yesterday by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the Center for Reproductive Rights has won our legal challenge to strike down a ballot initiative that would have given every fertilized egg the full [...]
Time to Get Emergency Contraception Right
The rules on who can get emergency contraception without a prescription are confusing. They don’t need to be, and they shouldn’t be, not for a drug deemed safe by government experts. A recent study, though, [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
