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The Far-Right Is Coming For Abortion Rights in the Heart of Europe

Vice quoted Leah Hoctor, the Center’s senior regional director for Europe, in an article about the upcoming elections in Italy and how the country’s far-right is poised to roll back abortion rights if they win [...]

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Florida Court Denies Pregnant Teen’s Request to Waive Legal Guardian Consent for Abortion

Autumn Katz, the Center’s interim director of litigation, was quoted in recent articles about a Florida court’s decision to deny a pregnant teen’s request to waive the state’s legal guardian consent requirement for abortion. In [...]

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Louisiana’s Three Remaining Abortion Clinics Close, Leaving Neighboring States Without Abortion Clinics for the First Time in 50 Years

The Center’s senior staff attorney Jenny Ma was quoted in an article about the closure and relocation of Louisiana’s three remaining abortion clinics, which shut down as the state’s anti-abortion law goes into effect. The [...]

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South Carolina Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Six-Week Abortion Ban

The Center’s senior counsel Genevieve Scott was quoted in recent articles about the South Carolina Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily block the state’s six-week abortion ban in a case brought by the Center. “Today's decision [...]

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Supplementary Report on the Status of Adolescents’ Reproductive Rights in the Philippines: 2022 Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

The Asia Unit of the Center for Reproductive Rights together with Philippine-based partners submitted supplemental information for the adoption of the list of issues (LOI) for the Republic of the Philippines by the UN Committee [...]

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En Honduras cada día la ley obliga a tres niñas violadas a ser madres

La prohibición absoluta del aborto es una violación a los derechos fundamentales de esas niñas.

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Joint Submission to Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan

The Center for Reproductive Rights and Aahung, a Karachi-based NGO, presented this joint submission on July 13, 2022, to supplement the report of the Government of Pakistan scheduled for review in the 42nd session of [...]

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The Myth that America’s Abortion Laws Are More Permissive Than Europe’s

The Atlantic quoted Katherine Mayall, the Center’s Director of Strategic Initiatives, in an article combating the idea that America’s abortion laws are more permissive than Europe’s. Mayall said that in Europe, “in practice, if somebody [...]

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Judge Temporarily Blocks Louisiana State Abortion Ban, Allowing Abortion Clinics to Stay Open

The Center’s Senior Staff Attorney Jenny Ma was quoted in articles about a Louisiana ruling blocking enforcement of the state's "trigger" laws banning abortion, allowing abortion clinics to continue offering care while the case proceeds.  [...]

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The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment

How constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law can help strengthen reproductive rights going forward.

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Supreme Court Decision on Roe v. Wade Has Ripple Effects Around the World

Several news outlets recently covered the global implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Speaking to the health and science outlet News Medical on the parallels between anti-abortion movements around [...]

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Six-Week Abortion Ban Takes Effect in Georgia

The Center was featured in multiple stories around Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, after a ruling by a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit allowed the ban to take effect [...]

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Abortion: The Body Politic

The Center's Leah Hoctor, senior regional director for Europe at the Center for Reproductive Rights, discusses the U.S. regression on abortion rights and its global impact. Listen to the podcast here: Abortion: The Body Politic, [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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