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Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Denying Women Accurate Information About Pregnancy Options
Anti-choice groups have set up facilities all over the country with names like "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs), "pregnancy resource centers," or "pregnancy help centers." These facilities do not offer abortions, abortion referrals, or unbiased options [...]
Press Room: The Center and the Supreme Court
6.30.10 - Nancy Northup, CRR President, Available to Comment on Kagan Hearings and Abortion Rights 6.21.10 - CRR Legal Analysis of Elena Kagan's Abortion Rights Record >, 5.10.10 - Center for Reproductive Rights on Nomination [...]
Fort Wayne Women’s Health v. Health Commissioner, Fort Wayne-Allen County Department Of Health
A case challenging a county ordinance that allows for increased government access to confidential patient records and imposes a special set of stringent requirements on doctors who practice in Fort Wayne-Allen County, but live outside [...]
Decline in Maternal Mortality Welcome, but Suffering Persists
By Ximena Andión Ibañez, International Advocacy Director An article in the recent Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, announced a global decrease in maternal deaths from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008. The Center [...]
Women Deliver Conference: Moving Reproductive Health Forward
From June 7-9, the Center for Reproductive Rights joined more than 2,000 women, advocates, donors, government representatives and experts from 115 countries in Washington, D.C. at the Women Deliver Conference to urge global leaders to [...]
One Year Later: Celebrating Nepal’s Comprehensive Abortion Law
One year ago today, May 20, 2010, the Nepal Supreme Court ordered the government of Nepal to enact a comprehensive abortion law guaranteeing that all women have safe and affordable access to legal abortion services [...]
Eyes on the Supreme Court: The Nomination of Elena Kagan
The Center for Reproductive Rights has released a legal analysis of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's record on abortion rights. The analysis is based on a thorough review of publicly available documents, including her memoranda while [...]
Introducing the 2010-2012 CRR-CLS Fellow: Elizabeth Sepper
Liz Sepper is the second recipient of the two-year Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellowship, which prepares recent law school graduates for careers as law teachers and scholars. Sepper has focused on women's rights [...]
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Decade-long Arizona Abortion Battle Ends in Victory
05.07.10 - Earlier today, a longtime legal challenge against a 1999 Arizona law regulating abortion providers has come to a close and a 10-year stay blocking the law's enforcement has been lifted by the U.S. [...]
Abortion in Colombia: Hard-Won Gains at Risk
USAID funds must not be used to roll back historic wins for women's reproductive health and rights in Colombia — this is the message that the Center recently delivered to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary [...]
Nova Health Systems v. Edmondson
The Center is challenging a newly enacted Oklahoma law which prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound, is shown the ultrasound image and listens to her doctor describe the [...]
Center Remembers Civil Rights Leader Dorothy I. Height
The Center for Reproductive Rights is deeply saddened by the death of the legendary civil rights leader, educator and women's activist Dr. Dorothy Height. Dr. Height dedicated her life to social justice with an unshakable [...]
Honoring the Memory of Founding Board Member Francis W. Hatch
On Thursday, April 8, Francis W. Hatch, a founding Board Member of the Center for Reproductive Rights, Honorary Trustee, and former Republican minority leader in the Massachusetts Legislature, died peacefully in Boston at the age [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
