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Organization of American States Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women; Calls on Governments to Decriminalize Abortion

OAS Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women, Calls Governments to Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) For the first time ever a committee within the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered to be the United Nations for the [...]

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Fifth Circuit Greenlights Texas Law Which Will Immediately Shutter All But Seven Abortion Clinics in the Entire State

Fifth Circuit Greenlights Texas Law Which Will Immediately Shutter All But Seven Abortion Clinics in the Entire State Nearly One Million Texas Women Now Face Minimum of 300 Mile Roundtrip to Access Constitutionally Protected Health [...]

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New Lawsuit Challenges Unconstitutional Oklahoma Abortion Restrictions

New Lawsuit Challenges Unconstitutional Oklahoma Abortion Restrictions Law Threatens to Reduce Access to Safe, Legal Abortion in Region Already Devastated by Similar Restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a new lawsuit in state [...]

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New Report Debunks Politicians’ Disingenuous Claims about Protecting Women’s Health and Safety in Passing Abortion Restrictions

New Report Debunks Politicians’ Disingenuous Claims about Protecting Women’s Health, Safety with Abortion Restrictions States with Highest Number of Abortion Restrictions Have Poorest Health Outcomes, Least Supportive Policies for Women and Children (PRESS RELEASE) States [...]

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New Lawsuit Seeks to Block Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion in Oklahoma

New Lawsuit Seeks to Block Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion in Oklahoma Legal challenge filed less than a year after state courts permanently struck down similar measure as unconstitutional (PRESS RELEASE) Women’s health care providers filed [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Brings Forced Sterilization Case of HIV Positive Woman to Human Rights Commission

Center for Reproductive Rights Brings Forced Sterilization Case of HIV Positive Woman to Human Rights Commission Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hear Case on the Forced Sterilization of Chilean Woman Living with HIV (PRESS [...]

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United Nations Calls on Governments to Promote Safe Pregnancy and Child Birth

United Nations Calls on Governments to Promote Safe Pregnancy and Child Birth U.N. Human Rights Council Passes 5th Resolution to Address Preventable Maternal Deaths (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Human Right Council unanimously passed its fifth [...]

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‘Top Chef’ Host Padma Lakshmi Joins Everyday Americans to Share Her Reproductive Health Care Story

‘Top Chef’ Host Padma Lakshmi Joins Everyday Americans to Share Her Reproductive Health Care Story State attacks on women’s constitutional rights galvanize women and men across the U.S. to speak out at DrawTheLine.org (PRESS RELEASE) [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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Spain Halts Extreme Abortion Law

Spain Halts Extreme Abortion Law News follows resignation of Spanish Minister of Justice Alberto Ruiz Gallardón (PRESS RELEASE) Today Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced the withdrawal of a draft bill that would have criminalized [...]

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New Report: Global Trend of Expanding Legal Abortion Services Continues

New Report: Global Trend of Expanding Legal Abortion Services Continues (PRESS RELEASE) More than 30 countries have amended their laws to expand access to safe and legal abortion services in the last 20 years—a trend [...]

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Missouri Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto, Triples Waiting Period for Women Seeking Safe and Legal Abortion Services

Missouri Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto, Triples Waiting Period for Women Seeking Safe, Legal Abortion Services Missouri joins Utah and South Dakota to become third state to force women to delay constitutionally protected health care for [...]

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Philippine Department of Justice Fails to Include Grounds for Abortion in Draft Criminal Code

Philippine Department of Justice Fails to Include Grounds for Abortion in Draft Criminal Code (PRESS RELEASE) More than 50 representatives from human rights organizations, academia, and other civil society groups in the Philippines and abroad, [...]

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Leading Health and Human Rights Organizations Call for End to Unnecessary Restrictions that Harm Women’s Health Worldwide

Leading Health & Human Rights Organizations Call for End to Unnecessary Restrictions that Harm Women’s Health Worldwide Diverse Coalition of 80 Groups Calls on the Obama Administration to Allow U.S. Foreign Assistance for Safe Abortion [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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