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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Louise Slaughter

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Louise Slaughter Today, U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the first woman to represent Western New York in Congress and longtime abortion rights advocate, has died at the age of 88. [...]

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Mississippi Lawmakers Attack Reproductive Rights with Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban

Mississippi Lawmakers Attack Reproductive Rights with Unconstitutional 15-Week Ban Bill heading to governor’s desk will be the earliest abortion ban in effect in the United States, and targets state’s last remaining clinic (PRESS RELEASE) Today [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights and National Women’s Law Center Submit Amicus Brief in Support of California’s FACT Act

Center for Reproductive Rights and National Women’s Law Center Submit Amicus Brief in Support of California’s FACT Act (MEDIA ADVISORY) Today the Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed an [...]

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Trump Administration to Strip Mention of Reproductive Health and Rights in State Department Human Rights Report

Trump Administration to Strip Mention of Reproductive Health and Rights in State Department Human Rights Report Move would signal clear disregard for women and reproductive rights around the world In the latest move of a [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights: Trump Administration Budget Endangers Reproductive Health

Center for Reproductive Rights: Trump Administration Budget Endangers Reproductive Health Budget threatens essential health programs for women, families, and vulnerable populations The Center for Reproductive Rights denounced President Donald Trump’s proposed FY 2019 budget released [...]

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Following Series of Victories Blocking Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Contraception Coverage Rules, Center for Reproductive Rights Withdraws Challenge

Center Withdraws Challenge After Victories Blocking Trump Administration's Discriminatory Contraception Coverage Rules (Media Advisory) – Following a series of victories blocking the Trump administration’s interim final rules that threaten to curtail access to birth control coverage [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU of Montana File Lawsuit Challenging Law That Prohibits Qualified Clinicians from Providing Abortions

Center and ACLU of Montana File Lawsuit Challenging Law That Prohibits Clinicians from Providing Abortions (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana filed a lawsuit today in [...]

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Senate Rejects Unconstitutional Nationwide Abortion Ban at 20 Weeks

Senate Rejects Unconstitutional Nationwide Abortion Ban at 20 Weeks (PRESS RELEASE) — Today, the Senate rejected an unconstitutional federal ban on abortions at 20 weeks. Failing the 60 vote threshold, the 51-46 procedural vote blocked a [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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Federal District Court Continues to Block Unconstitutional Texas Abortion Restrictions

Federal District Court Continues to Block Unconstitutional Texas Abortion Restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) A federal district court today blocked a Texas measure requiring health care providers to bury or cremate embryonic or fetal tissue from abortions, miscarriage or [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Cecile Richards

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Cecile Richards Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, released the following statement on fellow reproductive rights leader Cecile Richards, after Richards announced she will [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights, National Women’s Law Center, File Freedom of Information Act Request to Investigate HHS Division Devoted to Promoting Health Care Discrimination

Center for Reproductive Rights, National Women’s Law Center, File Freedom of Information Act Request to Investigate HHS – (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Women’s Law Center filed today a Freedom [...]

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Senate to Consider Unconstitutional Nationwide Abortion Ban at 20 Weeks

Senate to Consider Unconstitutional Nationwide Abortion Ban at 20 Weeks (PRESS RELEASE) — As the government returns to work following a three-day shutdown amid uncertainty about how to keep the government funded past February 8, [...]

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One Year Since Reinstatement, Global Gag Rule Has Devastating Impact on Women’s Health and Human Rights Worldwide

One Year Since Reinstatement, Global Gag Rule Has Devastating Impact on Women’s Health and Human Rights Worldwide (PRESS RELEASE) One year ago today, as one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump imposed a [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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