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A Duty to Protect
The Zika outbreak threatens dire consequences in countries that have failed to prioritize women’s health and human rights. Katia lives in El Salvador, one of several Latin American countries where the government has advised women [...]
Supreme Court Refuses to Review Mississippi’s Clinic Shutdown Law
Supreme Court Refuses to Review Mississippi’s Clinic Shutdown Law Last clinic in the state to remain open while legal challenge continues Order comes less than one day after nation’s highest court strikes down Texas’ clinic [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Clinic Shutdown Law in Historic Victory for Women
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Clinic Shutdown Law in Historic Victory for Women Clinics in Texas will remain open after high court rejects sham laws attacking constitutional right to legal abortion (PRESS RELEASE) – [...]
New Study: Zika Virus Fueling Online Demand for Abortion Pills in Latin America
New Study: Zika Virus Fueling Online Demand for Abortion Pills in Latin America (PRESS RELEASE) Since the Pan America Health Organization issued its Zika advisory in November 2015, online requests to Women on Web for [...]
Pennsylvania Doubles Down on Restricting Abortion: Bill Passed By House Contains Two Abortion Bans
Pennsylvania Doubles Down on Restricting Abortion: Bill Passed By House Contains Two Abortion Bans The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed an unconstitutional measure yesterday which bans the most common method of second trimester abortion while [...]
Tools of Transformation
A Center-sponsored toolkit equips reproductive health advocates in the South with resources to confront the growing maternal health crisis for Black women. Across the United States, Black women die or suffer serious illness during and [...]
A Punishing Year
Abandoning any pretense of protecting women, a new wave of abortion restrictions focus on shaming and criminalizing women and doctors. (Updated 8.4.16) More than a dozen abortion restrictions have been introduced so far this legislative [...]
A Most Basic Right
A first-ever ruling from the UN’s principal human rights body calls for swift and comprehensive reform to Ireland’s merciless abortion laws. At 21 weeks pregnant, when Amanda Mellet was told the fetus she was carrying [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
U.N. Committee Finds Ireland’s Abortion Laws Are Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading
U.N. Committee Finds Ireland's Abortion Laws Are Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading (PRESS RELEASE) Ireland’s abortion laws subjected a woman to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, according to a landmark decision from the United Nations Human [...]
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure reproductive rights are guaranteed in law as human rights, announced [...]
Not Okay in Oklahoma
The Center continues to challenge the state’s senseless assault on women’s reproductive health. When Laura, a college student in Oklahoma, found out she was pregnant, she knew immediately what she needed to do. “No question,” [...]
137 State Legislators Express Support for Women’s Access to Safe, Legal Abortion
137 State Legislators Express Support for Women's Access to Safe, Legal Abortion 137 state leaders from Arizona to Texas have signed an open letter expressing their support for a woman’s access safe and legal abortion. [...]
Louisiana Governor Signs Ban on Most Common Method of Second Trimester Abortion
Louisiana Governor Signs Ban on Most Common Method of Second Trimester Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Less than two weeks after signing a measure which triples the state’s mandatory waiting period from 24 to 72 hours for nearly all [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
