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U.S. House Passes Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding
U.S. House Passes Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding House also passes measure criminalizing doctors, interfering with practice of medicine (PRESS RELEASE) Despite one in five women depending on Planned Parenthood in her [...]
Virginia Board of Health Votes to Amend Regulations Designed to Shutter Abortion Clinics
Virginia Board of Health Votes to Amend Regulations Designed to Shutter Abortion Clinics (PRESS RELEASE) The Virginia Board of Health voted 9--6 today to lift some of the harsh restrictions in the state’s Texas-style clinic regulations [...]
Kenyan High Court: Maternity Hospital Illegally Imprisoned Women, Violated Human Rights
Kenyan High Court: Maternity Hospital Illegally Imprisoned Women, Violated Human Rights Court orders Ministry of Health to address discrimination in public hospitals and award compensation to women who were unlawfully detained (PRESS RELEASE) The High Court [...]
Chile’s Health Commission Approves Abortion Bill
Chile’s Health Commission Approves Abortion Bill (PRESS RELEASE) Rape survivors will be able to access safe abortion services within 14 weeks of pregnancy according to the latest version of Chile’s abortion bill advanced by the [...]
Kenyan “Doctor” Arrested for Raping Female Patient
Kenyan “Doctor” Arrested for Raping Female Patient (PRESS RELEASE) This week Mugo Wairimu, an owner of health clinics posing as a gynecologist, was arrested after multiple Kenyan news outlets reported on a video exposé showing [...]
Women’s Health Care Providers Ask United States Supreme Court to Take On Texas Clinic Shutdown Law
Women’s Health Care Providers Ask U.S Supreme Court to Take On Texas Clinic Shutdown Law As few as 10 clinics will remain in Texas if nation’s highest court fails to intervene (PRESS RELEASE) Today a [...]
Pakistani High Court Calls for Response to Allegations Women Are Denied Maternal Health Services
Pakistani High Court Calls for Response to Allegations Women Are Denied Maternal Health Services (PRESS RELEASE) Today the High Court of Sindh ordered the government of Sindh to respond by September 29 to a petition [...]
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Court Protects Abortion Access for Low-Income Women in Alaska
Court Protects Abortion Access for Low-Income Women in Alaska (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Alaska Superior Court struck down a state law and Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) regulation that would have severely limited [...]
State Court Permanently Blocks Oklahoma’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Medication Abortion
State Court Permanently Blocks Oklahoma’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Medication Abortion An Oklahoma state judge permanently blocked a state law restricting medication abortion today, ensuring women in the state will continue to have access to a [...]
Accountability for Discrimination Against Women in the Philippines: Key Findings and Recommendations from the CEDAW Committee’s Special Inquiry on Reproductive Rights
A 2007 report by the Center documenting human rights violations associated with Executive Order 003 became the basis for a special inquiry convened by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women [...]
New Resource Analyzes Major Policy Outcomes Impacting Texas Latinas in 84th Legislative Session
New Resource Analyzes Major Policy Outcomes Impacting Texas Latinas in 84th Legislative Session The Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health have released a new resource which analyzes the major policy outcomes [...]
Chile’s Health Commission Moves Abortion Bill Forward
Chile’s Health Commission Moves Abortion Bill Forward (PRESS RELEASE) This evening the Health Commission of Chile agreed to advance a proposed bill that would allow women access to safe and legal abortion services in cases [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
