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.
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 [...]
In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths
NPR
In "In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths," NPR features the stories of Texan mothers Samantha Casiano and Lauren Miller. Both women became plaintiffs in Zurawski v. Texas—the Center's case [...]
Maputo Protocol at 20: Progress on Abortion Rights in Africa
Reporting on the progress of this historic human rights instrument to explicitly guarantee the right to legal abortion in Africa.
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One year after Roe v. Wade’s reversal, warnings about abortion become reality
Multiple outlets
June 24 marked one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, bringing devastating consequences to people across the country. Multiple media outlets reported on the grim reality of a year without Roe, highlighting [...]
‘Incalculable’ impact: Three ways the Supreme Court abortion decision changed the USA
USA Today
In this piece for USA Today, the Center's Nancy Northup speaks about the devastating impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling eliminating the constitutional right to abortion one year ago. “It’s an incredible hardship and [...]
Gender Equality Under State Constitutions
Brennan Center for Justice
In this contributing post to the Brennan Center for Justice's blog, two Center attorneys discuss the organization's new resource that details the landscape of state constitutional standards for deciding sex discrimination claims. The new resource State [...]
Ukrainian refugees living in EU forced to travel back for abortions, study warns
Multiple outlets
Multiple media outlets reported on a new study published by a collective of nine human rights organizations, including the Center for Reproductive Rights, which found that women who have fled the invasion of Ukraine face [...]
‘Neighbors can come after neighbors’: Attorney warns of vigilante abortion laws in the South
NBC's Meet the Press
In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, the Center's Senior Staff Attorney Molly Duane discussed the May 22 addition of eight new plaintiffs to the Center's lawsuit against Texas on behalf of women denied [...]
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Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
