New York Times Editorial: Anti-Abortionists on Trial
New York Times Editorial: Anti-Abortionists on Trial "The state-by-state assault on women’s rights and the Constitution by Republicans faced an important challenge on Wednesday in Phoenix, where plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit are trying to [...]
International Business Times: Abortion Restrictions in 2012
International Business Times:Abortion Restrictions in 2012 By Ashley Portero "Fifteen states have passed nearly 40 laws intended to limit women's reproductive rights within the first six months of 2012, according to a new report from [...]
PUBLIC SERVICE EUROPE: Spain and Romania Backslide on Abortion
Spain and Romania Backslide on Abortion by Nancy Northup, President & CEO at the Center for Reproductive Rights In recent decades—as an overwhelming preponderance of evidence has established an inextricable link between the availability of [...]
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Virginia’s controversy continues
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Virginia's controversy continues By Michelle Movahed, Staff Attorney, Center for Reproductive Rights Last month, the Virginia Board of Health rightfully honored its mission to promote and protect the health of all Virginians, rejecting [...]
Rachel Maddow Show: Reprieve for Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic
Rachel Maddow Show: Reprieve for Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic Host: Rachel Maddow Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup sat down with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to talk about our fight to save the last remaining [...]
New York Times: Lawsuit Tries to Block New Arizona Abortion Law
New York Times: Lawsuit Tries to Block New Arizona Abortion Law By: Erik Eckholm "A group of doctors and women’s rights advocates challenged Arizona’s new abortion limits in a federal lawsuit on Thursday, claiming that [...]
Al Jazeera: Let them have contraception
Al Jazeera: Let them have contraception By: Manuela Picq "The London Summit on Family Planning is happening on July 11. It is an initiative from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK government [...]
RH REALITY CHECK: Birth Control Alone Isn’t Enough
Birth Control Alone Isn't Enough by Louise Finer, Director of Global Advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights In 1996, a Peruvian woman named María Mamérita Mestanza Chávez died from complications of a forced sterilization [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
NPR Tell Me More: ‘Unconstitutional’ Miss. abortion law has to go
NPR Tell Me More: 'Unconstitutional' Miss. abortion law has to go Host: Maria Hinojosa NPR's Tell Me More guest host Maria Hinojosa talks with Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive [...]
New York Times Letter to the Editor: Forced Abortion in China
New York Times Letter to the Editor: Forced Abortion in China By Nancy Northup, President and CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights Re 'Forced to Abort, Chinese Woman Under Pressure” (news article, June 27): The outrage [...]
Salon: Imprisoned for giving birth
Salon: Imprisoned for giving birth By Irin Carmon "Only 43 percent of births in Kenya happen in a health facility (for reference, in 2009, 98.9 percent of births in the U.S. took place in a [...]
Public Service Europe: Europe must fight Turkish abortion restrictions
Europe must fight Turkish abortion restrictions By Lilian Sepulveda, Director of the Global Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights Evidence show that abortion restrictions lead not to fewer abortions, but to increases in unsafe and [...]
The Hill: Attack the causes of gender discrimination – Not women
By Nancy Northup, president and CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights The opponents of reproductive rights have been trying rather desperately in recent months to turn around the perception that they’re engaged on a “war on [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
