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Warning: Pregnancy May Be Harmful to Your Civil Rights
Warning: Pregnancy May Be Harmful to Your Civil Rights “At no point in her pregnancy should a woman lose her civil and human rights,” assert the authors of a recent op-ed in the New York [...]
Black Women’s Health: A Twitter Chat with SisterSong and Ebony
Black Women’s Health: A Twitter Chat with SisterSong and Ebony How do racial disparities in health care affect women of color? This week, Ebony magazine took on the complex topic by hosting a Twitter chat [...]
We Can Be Moved
From Ferguson to Geneva in search of reproductive justice. Join us for "Vote for Our Lives: What's at Stake for Black Women's Health", a Twitter chat with Ebony Magazine and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive [...]
Preventing Maternal Death
In the vast majority of cases, maternal mortality is completely preventable. Why are 800 women a day still dying from pregnancy complications? Maureen, a maternal health advocate in Uganda, remembers losing her cousin—a young woman [...]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets It
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets It If she wasn’t your hero already, take a look at the interview Justice Ginsburg gave to Elle magazine for their October issue, and you might reconsider. Writer Jessica Weisberg asks [...]
MSNBC Spotlights “Draw the Line” Campaign
MSNBC Spotlights “Draw the Line” Campaign MSNBC looked at the Center for Reproductive Rights’ new storytelling campaign Draw the Line, which shares the personal reproductive health experiences of Americans from all walks of life. Top [...]
Spotlighting Racial Bias
In LaKeisha’s hometown of Atlanta, African American women die in childbirth at a rate more than three times the national average. Following an emergency c-section, LaKeisha experienced a brush with this unsettling statistic when she [...]
Five Ways Arizona is Hurting Women
Five Ways Arizona is Hurting Women In an April 21 article, Rolling Stone criticizes the state of Arizona as posing “some of the gravest threats to reproductive freedom” in the country, specifically because of its [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Tennessee Targets Pregnant Women
Tennessee Targets Pregnant Women Weighing in at Slate this past week writer Amanda Marcotte notes some unwelcome movement in the Tennessee legislature that would try to criminalize a woman’s behavior during pregnancy. Last year, the [...]
U.S. Human Rights at the U.N.
U.S. Human Rights at the U.N. The United States government, like all nations that have ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), must periodically report to the U.N. Human Rights Committee. To [...]
WATCH: Texas Law Closes Two More Clinics
WATCH: Texas Law Closes Two More Clinics Amy Hagstrom Miller, owner of Whole Woman’s Health and our client, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night to deliver devastating news: the unconstitutional law passed in [...]
Downton Abbey & Black History Month
Downton Abbey & Black History Month Great piece over the weekend from Talking Points Memo writer Nicole Beisel. Beisel takes a look at a recent storyline on the popular television show “Downton Abbey” when one [...]
New Health and Human Rights Teaching Resource
New Health and Human Rights Teaching Resource We are very excited to report the launch of the Health and Human Rights Syllabus Database. Compiled by the Program on Global Health &, Human Rights, Institute for Global [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
