Protect, Defend, Extend: 2018 State of the States
A turbulent year for reproductive rights, 2018 saw a continuation of the nearly decade-long coordinated campaign to eliminate access to abortion and shutter clinics across the country as well as a significant shift in the [...]
Learning from Nuestro Texas: A Community-Centered Human Rights Campaign for Reproductive Justice in the Rio Grande Valley
In 2011, the Texas legislature slashed the state’s family planning budget by two-thirds and restricted providers’ ability to participate in low-cost women’s health services. In combination with federal health care and immigration policies, this move [...]
Beyond Abortion: Roe and Other Rights
The Constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortion has never faced greater threat. But the Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has implications that transcend safe and legal abortion. Roe binds together an entire class of personal freedoms, [...]
Report: Roe and Intersectional Liberty Doctrine
Roe was a watershed decision, and became an immediate nemesis for abortion opponents. But its place in constitutional doctrine does not begin, or end, with abortion rights. Instead, Roe is one in a line of [...]
Fact Sheet: The Global Gag Rule and Human Rights
Under the Global Gag Rule, the U.S. is turning its back on the human rights of women and girls around the world. Denying access to abortion does not stop women and girls from seeking abortion [...]
State of the States 2017: A Proactive Push in the Wake of Whole Woman’s Health
This report provides a comprehensive overview of state legislation enacted in 2017 restricting access to abortion and family planning services in addition to the proactive approaches state policymakers used to strengthen access to reproductive health [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Evaluating Priorities: Measuring Women’s and Children’s Health and Well-being against Abortion Restrictions in the States- Volume II
Anti-abortion politicians have quietly passed 391 laws restricting access to abortion since 2010. The politicians that push these laws often claim that they are necessary to protect the health and well-being of women, their pregnancies, [...]
Standing Up for Reproductive Rights: A Look Back at the 114th Congress
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. I am resolved that we shall win the tomorrows before us. -President Lyndon B. [...]
Report: The Undue Burden Standard after Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt
(REVISED 08.09.18) The Supreme Court delivered a landmark victory in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt on June 27, 2016, striking down the two abortion restrictions under challenge in the case, preserving access for thousands of [...]
Federal Policy Agenda 2017-2018
Intended as a resource for Congress, as well as our allies and supporters, our 2017–2018 federal policy agenda identifies harmful policies we oppose as well as proactive legislative priorities that would defend against serious threats [...]
2016 State of the States: A Pivotal Time for Reproductive Rights
Politicians in statehouses across the country continued to attack women’s access to vital health care services in 2016, introducing more than 500 bills and enacting more than 60 new laws restricting access to reproductive health [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
