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No Relief in Ireland
No Relief in Ireland When Amanda Kellet and James Burke went to a Dublin hospital for their 21-week ultrasound, they were looking forward to finding out whether they were having a boy or a girl. [...]
Human Rights Committee Calls Out Peru for Highly Restrictive Abortion Law
The UN Human Rights Committee recently criticized Peru for a wide range of reproductive rights violations, including highly restrictive abortion legislation and a high rate of maternal mortality. During its 107th session in March 2013, [...]
Michigan Gov. Slammed for Signing Law
Michigan Gov. Slammed for Signing Law It is common practice for anti-choice legislators to sugarcoat their motives for passing laws that choke off access to reproductive health care. Michigan governor Rick Snyder has gone down [...]
Ireland’s Abortion Law: Lives At Risk
Ireland’s Abortion Law: Lives At Risk Last month, Savita Halapannavar arrived at Galway Hospital 17 weeks into her pregnancy and suffering from severe back pains. Doctors informed her that she was having a miscarriage, and then, over [...]
European Court of Human Rights Issues Judgment in Z v. Poland
European Court of Human Rights Issues Judgment in Z v. Poland This week the European Court of Human Rights issued a disappointing judgment in Z v. Poland, a case brought by a mother, known as [...]
Mississippi’s Lone Abortion Clinic Fights to Stay Open
Mississippi’s Lone Abortion Clinic Fights to Stay Open When he signed it into law in April this year, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant lauded House Bill No. 1390 as the "first step" to making Mississippi the [...]
Virginia Governor McDonnell’s Anti-Woman Crusade
Virginia Governor McDonnell’s Anti-Woman Crusade Update: The Virginia Board of Health caved under intense political pressure from the state’s governor and attorney general this afternoon. The panel voted to require existing reproductive health care providers [...]
Canadian Doctors: “Life Begins at Birth”
Canadian Doctors: “Life Begins at Birth” Earlier this year, one member of Canada's Parliament tried to start a fire. The fuel for that blaze was women's reproductive rights, and more specifically the section of Canada's [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
UN Urges the Slovak Government to Reform Reproductive Health
A recent review by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights found that Slovakia continues to fall short on certain key elements of reproductive health care. The Center for Reproductive Rights and [...]
The End of Abortion?
The End of Abortion? A new law threatens to shut down Mississippi's only abortion clinic. CRR fights back with lawsuit. On July 1st, Mississippi becomes the first state in the country with no abortion clinic. [...]
One Million Voices for Honduran Women
Can you imagine living in a country where women are thrown in jail for using emergency contraception—even if they were raped? This heinous law is currently pending before the Honduran Congress with a vote scheduled [...]
2011: A Look Back
Every year, anti-choice state legislators propose hundreds of measures intended to erode women’s rights to abortion and reproductive health care. Some of these aim to restrict access by imposing mandatory waiting periods, ideologically biased counseling [...]
A Girl Who Changed the World, A Victory for Women Everywhere
A Girl Who Changed the World, A Victory for Women Everywhere In 2009, a girl from Peru named L.C. demanded justice. Two years earlier, she needed an abortion—had a legal right to abortion—and was denied, [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
