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The Hill: Attack the causes of gender discrimination – Not women
By Nancy Northup, president and CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights The opponents of reproductive rights have been trying rather desperately in recent months to turn around the perception that they’re engaged on a “war on [...]
Barrage of Lawsuits Challenging Women’s Health Care is Just a “Political Stunt”
(PRESS RELEASE) More than 40 Catholic groups filed 12 separate lawsuits across the country yesterday challenging the Affordable Care Act's copay-free birth control benefit for all women—a move the Center for Reproductive Rights has called [...]
Fox News: Activists take aim at Roe one state at a time
By Shannon Bream "Pro-life activists say they aren't abandoning efforts at the national level, but admit they're now focused on state legislative efforts. In more than two dozen states, several different kinds of measures are [...]
Washington Examiner: Judge hears arguments on Oklahoma abortion drug law
"Opponents of an Oklahoma law that would restrict the use of certain abortion-inducing drugs urged a judge Thursday to declare it unconstitutional, arguing that many women seeking abortions would have no choice but to undergo [...]
RH Reality Check: Looking Anxiously Ahead as Health Care Reform Turns Two
By Katrina Anderson, Human Rights Counsel, Center for Reproductive Rights Two years ago this month, Congress finally responded to the American public’s demand for better health care and passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I would [...]
About.com: Doonesbury Comic Strip Lampoons Invasive Texas Sonogram Law
By Linda Lowen "Is your local daily newspaper waging a war on women? If it carries the comic strip Doonesbury, this is your chance to find out. All this week, Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau is [...]
RH Reality Check: Many International Agreements Later, Girls and Young Women Worldwide Still Lack Basic Rights
By Louise Finer, International Advocacy Manager, Center for Reproductive Rights Moldova is one of more than two dozen countries that celebrate International Women’s Day — March 8 — as a holiday, with an official day [...]
New York Times: When States Abuse Women
By Nicholas Kristof "Here's what a woman in Texas now faces if she seeks an abortion. Under a new law that took effect three weeks ago, she first must typically endure an ultrasound probe inserted [...]
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Birth Control Benefit for Women Preserved, CRR Calls for END TO Attacks on Women’s Health
(PRESS RELEASE) The Obama Administration has committed to preserve the no-copay birth control benefit for all women under the Affordable Care Act, according to an announcement today that employees at religiously-affiliated institutions will be able [...]
MSNBC: Texas begins enforcing strict anti-abortion sonogram law
By James Eng "Fewer abortions? Better-informed patients? Insulted women? The impact of a controversial new Texas law that requires women to have a sonogram – and listen to a description of the fetus as well [...]
Toward Freedom: Eastern Europe’s Conservative Crackdown on Reproductive Freedom
By Jake Blumgart "Across Eastern and Central Europe, as unemployment surges and the European Union dithers, nationalist conservative and far right parties are on the march. Emboldened right-wing leaders are resurrecting debates around abortion and [...]
Austin Chronicle: Ultrasound Reimposed by Appeals Court
By Jordan Smith "Last week's 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion – overturning an injunction that had barred final implementation of Texas' new ultrasound-before-abortion law – may 'barely have touched on the issues' raised [...]
Houston Chronicle: Group Files Appeal against Sonogram Requirement
"The Center for Reproductive Rights is asking for a rehearing of its argument that a law requiring a sonogram before an abortion is unconstitutional. Two weeks ago the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
