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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets It
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets It If she wasn’t your hero already, take a look at the interview Justice Ginsburg gave to Elle magazine for their October issue, and you might reconsider. Writer Jessica Weisberg asks [...]
Forced Sterilization in Chile
Forced Sterilization in Chile Francisca, a young Chilean woman, describes the day her only son was born as the worst and the best day of her life. The best—for obvious reasons. The worst—for reasons almost too [...]
MSNBC Spotlights “Draw the Line” Campaign
MSNBC Spotlights “Draw the Line” Campaign MSNBC looked at the Center for Reproductive Rights’ new storytelling campaign Draw the Line, which shares the personal reproductive health experiences of Americans from all walks of life. Top [...]
Recipe for Disaster
Recipe for Disaster Using absurd building regulations in an underhanded attempt to shutter most of the state’s abortion clinics, Texas legislators risk a public health crisis. Liposuction. Colonoscopy. Skin cancer excision. Vasectomy. A D&,C after [...]
Joint Statement and Call to Action for the Philippine Congress to Examine the Harmful Impact of the Total Criminal Ban on Abortion
Joint Statement for the Philippine Congress to Examine the Harmful Impact of the Total Criminal Ban on Abortion Joint Statement for the Philippine Congress to Examine the Harmful Impact of the Total Criminal Ban on [...]
Conscientious Objection and Reproductive Rights: International Human Rights Standards
The Center for Reproductive Rights’ new publication Conscientious Objection and Reproductive Rights: International Human Rights Standards describes the rules of International Human Rights Law regarding conscientious objection. The toolkit analyzes the applicable human rights standards [...]
A Map of Progress
Worldwide, abortion laws have been liberalizing over the last 20 years. And the momentum is only accelerating. In a country like the United States, where attacks on a woman’s right to abortion are frequent, it [...]
The Total Criminalization of Abortion in El Salvador
El Salvador has one of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws, banning abortion in all circumstances, even when the pregnancy poses a risk to a woman’s life, health or in cases of rape. The country’s [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
CRR on ABC’s This Week
CRR on ABC’s This Week Center for Reproductive Rights staff attorney, David Brown, appeared on ABC’s This Week in a feisty segment discussing the recent ruling out of Texas in which a federal judge deemed [...]
Why Ending Child Marriage is a Critical Part of the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Why Ending Child Marriage is a Critical Part of the Post-2015 Development Agenda Melissa Upreti Twenty-five thousand children worldwide, most of whom are girls, are married every day. While many countries have laws that clearly [...]
Spotlighting Racial Bias
In LaKeisha’s hometown of Atlanta, African American women die in childbirth at a rate more than three times the national average. Following an emergency c-section, LaKeisha experienced a brush with this unsettling statistic when she [...]
CRR Announces New Columbia Law Fellow
CRR Announces New Columbia Law Fellow The Center is excited to announce Harvard law student Lisa Kelly as the 2014-2016 recipient of the Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellowship. Lisa has been selected from [...]
The Post’s Sobering Look at Texas
The Post’s Sobering Look at Texas Amen, Washington Post. The Post’s editorial board has written a dead-on opinion piece that breaks down the alarming trend of anti-choice legislation that is essentially undermining Roe v. Wade [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
