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State Court Blocks Oklahoma Measure Criminalizing Doctors for Providing Safe, Common Abortion Method, But Fails to Block 72-Hour Waiting Period
State Court Blocks Oklahoma Measure Criminalizing Doctors for Providing Safe, Common Abortion Method (PRESS RELEASE) Earlier today, a state court judge blocked an Oklahoma measure banning the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy [...]
U.N. Committee Calls on Bangladesh to End Child Marriage and Address Adolescent Health
U.N. Committee Calls on Bangladesh to End Child Marriage and Address Adolescent Health (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on the government of Bangladesh to take active [...]
Leading National Health Organizations, Legal Scholars, and State Attorneys General Oppose Texas Clinic Shutdown Law
Leading National Health Organizations, Legal Scholars, and State Attorneys General Oppose Texas Clinic Shutdown Law American Medical Association and 12 state Attorneys General among broad coalition urging U.S. Supreme Court to avert impending health crisis [...]
New Research Reveals Devastating Impact of Clinic Shutdown Laws on Texas Women
New Research Reveals Devastating Impact of Clinic Shutdown Laws on Texas Women Without U.S. Supreme Court intervention, widespread clinic delays will undermine the constitutional rights of women (PRESS RELEASE) New research released today by the Texas Policy [...]
New Lawsuit Challenges Two Oklahoma Laws That Delay Women’s Health Care and Criminalize Doctors
New Lawsuit Challenges Two Oklahoma Laws That Delay Women’s Health Care and Criminalize Doctors (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a new lawsuit in state district court today challenging two Oklahoma measures which [...]
A Voting Rights Act for Reproductive Rights?
The following article was written by Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, as part of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law's publication titled "Legal [...]
Texas Continues to Fight Back: El Paso Clinic Reopens Following Supreme Court Action Blocking Sham Abortion Restrictions
Texas Continues to Fight Back: El Paso Clinic Reopens Following Supreme Court Action Blocking Sham Abortion Restrictions Reproductive Services in El Paso reopens, but millions of Texas women still at risk of losing access to [...]
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Gender Equality and Empowerment of All Women And Girls Central to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
Gender Equality and Empowerment of All Women And Girls Central to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (PRESS RELEASE) Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is at the crux of 17 goals in [...]
55 Members of Congress Call on Secretary of State John Kerry to Review Cases of Salvadoran Women Wrongfully Imprisoned for Pregnancy Complications
55 Members of Congress Call on John Kerry to Review Cases of Salvadoran Women Wrongfully Imprisoned (PRESS RELEASE) Today Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Norma J. Torres delivered a letter from 55 Member of Congress [...]
United States Rejects Calls by U.N. Human Rights Council to End Harmful Restrictions on Reproductive Rights
United States Rejects Calls by U.N. Human Rights Council to End Harmful Restrictions on Reproductive Rights U.S. position leaves women without access to essential health services (PRESS RELEASE) This week the United States government rejected [...]
Government of Ecuador Fails to Protect the Rights of People Living With HIV
Government of Ecuador Fails to Protect the Rights of People Living With HIV (PRESS RELEASE) The Ecuadoran government violated the human rights of a young girl living with HIV according to a ruling by the [...]
U.S. Senate Blocks Vote on Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban
U.S. Senate Blocks Vote on Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban Measure banning abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy would create mandatory delay for rape survivors, makes no exceptions for women’s health (PRESS RELEASE) Pro-choice Senators voted [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
