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Whose Choice: A Timeline of the Hyde Amendment and Its Impact on Abortion Funding
When abortion was first legalized in 1973, federal funds were available to low-income women seeking medically necessary abortions who were reliant on the government for healthcare. In fact, at that time federal Medicaid funds paid [...]
Whose Choice: Press Room
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Center Urges International Community to Utilize MDGs to Advance Human Rights
As world leaders gather in New York for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit from September 20-22, the Center for Reproductive Rights is urging leaders to fully incorporate human rights into efforts to achieve the [...]
Whose Choice: How the Hyde Amendment Harms Poor Women
One in 10 women in the United States depends on Medicaid for their healthcare coverage. But, because of a 1976 measure called the Hyde Amendment more than a million women have been denied funds to [...]
Whose Choice: Learn More
Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has been used to ban the federal government from spending money on abortion with very few exceptions. This means that low-income women enrolled in Medicaid have been most severely affected [...]
A First Look Back at the 2010 State Legislative Session
Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women's access to abortion, including mandatory delays, biased counseling provisions and other burdensome and unnecessary requirements. On average, more than six hundred bills are proposed [...]
Forsaken Lives: Slideshow
During a trip to the Philippines last spring, the Center endeavored to document the sights and experiences of women living under the country's blanket ban on abortion. In addition to a powerful video shot in [...]
Hope Medical Group for Women v. James D. Caldwell: Temporary Restraining Order
The Center for Reproductive Rights has been granted a temporary restraining order in the federal challenge recently filed against two abortion restrictions passed by the Louisiana state legislature. Download the order below >,
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The Center is proud to present its groundbreaking report, "Defending Human Rights: Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment." Physicians and reproductive healthcare professionals who work to provide abortions are frequently denied government and societal [...]
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The Center for Reproductive Rights is the world's expert in using constitutional and international human rights law to secure women's access to quality reproductive healthcare. We are the only reproductive rights legal advocate that works [...]
Forsaken Lives: Download Report
Criminal bans on abortion are harmful not only to women but also undermine entire health systems. The report, Forsaken Lives: The Harmful Impact of the Philippine Criminal Abortion Ban, documents the experiences of women in [...]
Demanding Rights for HIV Positive Women
Around the world, laws and policies stigmatize and discriminate against people living with HIV/AIDS, violating their human rights. In reaction to this, people living with HIV are increasingly using the law to hold governments accountable [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.