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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 [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case by Foster Care Service Providers That Could Have Broad Implications for Non-Discrimination Law
On November 4, the United States Supreme Court heard argument in a case that could subject LGBTQ people and others to discrimination by private entities that contract with the government to provide government services. The case, Fulton v. City [...]
Europe Update: Abortion Rights at Risk in Poland and Slovakia
Recent developments in Poland and Slovakia demonstrate the ongoing struggle to defend abortion rights against coordinated and systemic attacks on sexual and reproductive rights across the world. Poland Update: On Wednesday, January 27, 2021, Poland’s government published an announcement from [...]
Coming Abortion Fight Could Threaten Birth Control, Too
Kaiser Health News quotes Center president and CEO Nancy Northup on how other personal liberties could be threatened by a new abortion jurisprudence from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Center Urges UN Members to Consider Reproductive Rights in Assessing U.S.’s Human Rights Record
U.S. Peer Review at the UN Human Rights Council Scheduled for November 9 In preparation for the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United States’ human rights record before the United Nations Human Rights [...]
In Europe and the US, abortion rights are under renewed threat
CNN quotes the Center's Julie Rikelman about hostility toward abortion rights in the U.S. federal courts.
International Solidarity with Women and Peaceful Protestors in Poland
As organizations committed to the advancement of human rights and gender equality, we stand in solidarity with all those in Poland who for the last week have peacefully protested against the politicized attack on women’s [...]
Tennessee’s Mandatory Waiting Period for Abortion: “Highly Insulting and Paternalistic”
Update: On 4/23/21, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the 48-hour mandatory waiting period, allowing it to take effect immediately in Tennessee. Patients at health centers at the time of the ruling [...]
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Revealed: $280m ‘dark money’ spent by US Christian right groups globally
Alejandra Cárdenas, director of global legal strategies at the Center for Reproductive Rights, tells openDemocracy that its findings “prove a manipulation we’ve been seeing for years by the US Christian right in Latin America and [...]
Amy Coney Barrett Has Joined The Supreme Court. What Happens To Roe V. Wade Now?
ELLE interviews Center president and CEO Nancy Northup on the effects the new Supreme Court Justice's "extreme record" and "vitriolic public advocacy" may have on abortion care and women's health.
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO Today, in a deeply divided nation while an election is already underway, the U.S. Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court [...]
‘Give women options’: Advocates push for decriminalization of abortion
Rappler reports on a panel on abortion rights in the the Philippines featuring Center senior legal advisor Jihan Jacob: "if the government denies women's access to abortion, 'we're also violating their fundamental human rights.'"
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal Rolls Back Reproductive Rights
The Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling to invalidate the constitutionality of access to abortion on the ground of “severe and irreversible fetal defect or incurable illness that threatens the fetus’ life” will further harm women and [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
