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Center Responds to Report from U.S. State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights has issued its official response to the Trump administration’s latest attempt to remove reproductive rights from the global human rights framework through its Commission on Unalienable Rights. The Center's response, [...]
The Center Releases New Report on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Nigerian Conflict Zones
Since 2018, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners at the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) have studied and documented the effects of the Boko Haram conflict on the sexual and reproductive health [...]
Center Lawsuits Block Abortion Bans in Georgia and Tennessee
Georgia ban ruled unconstitutional, Tennessee ban temporarily blocked On July 13, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners secured two important victories blocking state abortion bans in Georgia and Tennessee. Georgia A federal district [...]
Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Declared Unconstitutional
District court decision is the Center's second victory in one day blocking state abortion bans. “It is in the public interest, and is this court’s duty, to ensure constitutional rights are protected,” wrote a federal [...]
Debunking Anti-Abortion Politicians’ Claims of “Protecting Women’s Health”
When anti-abortion state lawmakers push through laws restricting access to abortion, they often claim their aim is to protect the health and well-being of women, their pregnancies, and their children. But do those claims stand [...]
Lawsuit by Center for Reproductive Rights and Partners Blocks Tennessee Abortion Bans
New Law Barred Abortion at Nearly Every Stage of Pregnancy and for Specific Reasons UPDATE: On November 20, a panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request from the state of Tennessee [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Decision Will Cause Denial of Birth Control Coverage for Thousands
Court Gives Trump Administration Broad Authority to Expand Employer Exemptions for Moral and Religious Reasons The recent ruling by the United States Supreme Court in favor of the Trump administration’s bid to allow schools and [...]
Washington Post Op-ed: Center CEO Urges Congress to Protect Abortion Access
Following the Center’s recent U.S. Supreme Court victory in June Medical Services v. Russo, Center for Reproductive Rights president and CEO Nancy Northup, in an opinion piece for The Washington Post, called on Congress to [...]
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Four Years After Whole Woman’s Health, Center Awaits U.S. Supreme Court’s Ruling on Identical Abortion Law
June 27 marks four years since the United States Supreme Court issued its historic decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, striking down a Texas law designed to close most of the state’s abortion clinics [...]
Center Leader Recognized for Work on Black Maternal Health
Breana Lipscomb, Senior Manager of the Maternal Health and Rights Initiative at the Center for Reproductive Rights, was recently awarded the inaugural Kira Johnson Advocate of the Year Award for her work on Black maternal [...]
New Trump Administration Rule Will Encourage Discrimination in Health Care
Changes Apply to the Implementation of ACA’s Section 1557 That Protects Women, LGBTQ People, and Immigrants The Trump administration just finalized a new rule that would harm health care access for women, LGBTQ people, and [...]
Center Helps Expand Access to IVF in Maryland
New law to end discriminatory insurance coverage In a victory for people seeking in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in Maryland, the Center for Reproductive Rights, working in partnership with the Women's Law Center of Maryland, helped to [...]
June Medical Services v. Russo
Victory at the U.S. Supreme Court!
In June Medical Servces v. Russo, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana abortion restriction, following long-held legal standards protecting abortion rights and access.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
