CRR Speaks Before Panel on Contraception as Preventive Care Under Health Reform Law
(PRESS RELEASE) This week, the Center for Reproductive Rights delivered a statement urging an expert panel to include birth control, among the preventive services that it recommends be included to patients at no cost under [...]
Remarks to the Institute of Medicine Committee on Preventive Services for Women
"My name is Aram Schvey, and I serve as Policy Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights. The Center is a global human rights organization that uses constitutional and international human rights law to promote [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Testimony before NYC Council on Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, testified before the New York City Council on November 16, 2010 on the recently introduced bill that will regulate the deceptive practices of pregnancy counseling centers [...]
CEDAW: Written Statement Submitted to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
Written Statement of the Center for Reproductive Rights Submitted to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law For November 18, 2010 Hearing on: "Women's Rights Are Human Rights: U.S. [...]
Costa Rica’s New IVF Law Unacceptable
Costa Rica's proposed bill on in vitro fertilization (IVF) violates international human rights standards, according to a brief the Center submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on November 18. Even though IVF [...]
Letter to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Re: Costa Rican IVF Ban
The Costa Rican media recently reported1 that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights communicated report No. 85/10, the preliminary report for Case 12.361, to Costa Rica on August 23, 2010. This report establishes that decision [...]
CRR Takes FDA Back to Court Over Morning-After Pill
Says Obama FDA is Still Ignoring Science and Playing Games with Women's Health Like Bush FDA (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a motion for contempt against the Food and Drug Administration [...]
Clone of The Center takes the FDA Back to Court
For more than a year and a half, the FDA and the Obama Administration has ignored a court order to reconsider its refusal to make emergency contraception (EC) available over-the-counter to women of all ages. [...]
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Tummino v. Margaret Hamburg: Memo of Law in Support of Plaintiffs Motion for Civil Contempt
Plaintiffs respectfully submit this memorandum of law in support of their motion for civil contempt against Defendant (hereinafter "the FDA") based on the FDA‟s failure to make any meaningful efforts to comply with the portion [...]
Abortion Restrictions (Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, November 10, 2010)
By Nancy Northup - President, Center for Reproductive Rights The New York Times, November 10, 2010 Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights To the Editor: Re “Now in Power, G.O.P. Vows Cuts in State [...]
The Center takes the FDA Back to Court
Teva, the manufacturer of the emergency contraceptive (EC) Plan B, announced that it filed an application with the FDA requesting that EC be available over-the-counter without a prescription for women of all ages. When it [...]
The Council of Europe Undermines Women’s Human Rights
On October 7, anti-abortion members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) successfully hijacked a resolution intended to regulate conscientious objection, turning it on its head in order to serve their ideological [...]
Nancy Northup to Testify at NYC City Council Hearing on CPCs
11.15.10 - Tomorrow afternoon, Nancy Northup, President of the Center for Reproductive Rights, will be testifying before the New York City Council in support of a recently introduced bill that will regulate the deceptive practices [...]
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