Realizing the Full Decriminalization of Abortion: A Comprehensive Approach Through Public Health and International Human Rights Law
Developed in partnership by the Guttmacher Institute and the Center for Reproductive Rights, this in-depth report integrates evidence from demographic, health and legal perspectives to present arguments for the liberalization and decriminalization of abortion laws.
Center Leaders in Latin America Discuss Mexico Ruling Decriminalizing Abortion
Historic decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice will increase abortion access nationwide and marks another victory for the Latin American Green Wave movement.
European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview
Get an overview of abortion laws and policies in all 47 European countries (updated September 2023).
Abortion Rights Are Advancing Across the Globe
A supplement to the Center's World’s Abortion Laws Map, this report outlines trends in the liberalization of abortion laws over the last 30 years. You’ll see the 60+ countries that have liberalized their abortion laws [...]
Media Highlights: Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
Multiple outlets
Several leaders from the Center for Reproductive Rights have been interviewed about Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. Below are media highlights. “A federal judge suspends FDA's longtime approval of an abortion pill, but gives [...]
News Coverage: Texas District Court Ruling in Zurawski v. State of Texas
Multiple outlets
Judge Jessica Mangrum’s August 4 ruling on Zurawski v. State of Texas clarified the medical exception in the state’s abortion bans, enabling physicians to use their “good faith judgment,” in consultation with their pregnant patients, [...]
Women’s Stories in Center’s Texas Case ‘May Change the Abortion Narrative’
Boston Globe
Mary Ziegler writes in the Boston Globe about the power of the women’s testimony in the Center’s Zurawski v. State of Texas case.
News Coverage: Hearing in Zurawski v. State of Texas
Multiple outlets
View media highlights about the riveting testimony from women denied abortion care despite facing dangerous risks to their health, lives and future fertility.
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Manuela’s family needs El Salvador to ask for forgiveness
Limited Times
Despite a 2021 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Manuela v. El Salvador that established standards throughout Latin America to help protect women seeking reproductive health care, including abortion, the Limited Times [...]
Denied abortion for a doomed pregnancy, she tells Texas court: ‘There was no mercy’
NPR reported on the first day's hearing in Zurawski v. State of Texas on July 19. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of Texas women denied abortion care despite [...]
Tearfully testifying against Texas’ abortion ban, three women describe medical care delayed
The Texas Tribune gave signifcant coverage of the testimony given at a hearing in state court in Zurawski v. State of Texas on July 19. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf [...]
‘I now realize that I am not guilty, that I am just another victim’
El País
In a piece for El País, Fátima, a Guatemalan survivor of sexual violence, tells her story and explains her decision to seek justice by joining a Center case. Fátima's case against Guatemala is one of [...]
Report: Legal and Human Rights Centre and Center for Reproductive Rights (on behalf of Tanzanian girls) v. The United Republic of Tanzania
In June 2019, the Legal and Human Rights Centre and Center for Reproductive Rights filed a case against the United Republic of Tanzania before the African Committe of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
