Daily Beast: Why Does Spain Love Gay Marriage But Hate Abortion?
Daily Beast: Why Does Spain Love Gay Marriage But Hate Abortion? Emily Shire Spain’s about to become the most repressive country in the EU when it comes to abortion rights—even as it has embraced gay [...]
Reuters: IWD 2014: No equality without reproductive autonomy
Reuters: IWD 2014: No equality without reproductive autonomy Nancy Northup Earlier this year, France’s National Assembly moved to amend its country’s laws to reaffirm women’s absolute right to end a pregnancy through the first 12 [...]
Associated Press: Arizona sued over rules limiting abortion drug use
Associated Press: Arizona sued over rules limiting abortion drug use Bob Christie PHOENIX (AP) — Abortion providers said Wednesday that they have sued the state of Arizona to try to block new state rules limiting [...]
Jurist: Examining the Constitutionality of Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones
Jurist: Examining the Constitutionality of Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones Stephanie Toti The US Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in McCullen v. Coakley, involving a Massachusetts statute that creates 35 foot buffer zones around abortion [...]
Think Progress: NPR Host Speaks Out About Her Illegal Abortion: ‘I Am Saying To All Women, Stand Up For Your Rights’
Think Progress: NPR Host Speaks Out About Her Illegal Abortion: ‘I Am Saying To All Women, Stand Up For Your Rights’ Tara Culp-Ressler Dee Dee Bridgewater, an award-winning jazz singer who hosts a syndicated NPR [...]
Substantive Equality and Reproductive Rights: A Briefing Paper on Aligning Development Goals with Human Rights Obligations
International human rights norms have recognized that reproductive rights are women’s rights, clarifying that violations of reproductive rights are primarily manifestations of discrimination, poverty, and violence. Where women’s rights to equality and non-discrimination are not [...]
A Call to Pass the #ActforWomen
A Call to Pass the #ActforWomen Nancy Kaufman, the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, makes an impassioned call on Congress to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act in an op-ed that appeared [...]
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New York Times: Spain’s regressive abortion bill
New York Times: Spain’s regressive abortion bill Johanna Westeson Regarding “Spain’s alarming abortion debate” (Editorial, Jan. 18): When a country severely restricts women’s access to abortion, as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is proposing in Spain, [...]
New York Magazine: Watch Mark Ruffalo Talk About Abortion Rights
New York Magazine: Watch Mark Ruffalo Talk About Abortion Rights Kat Stoeffel, The Cut Mark Ruffalo has been a known abortion rights advocate for about a year. But now he’s on tape — just in [...]
Talking Points Memo: Roe V. Wade Anniversary: Fights Over Abortion Are Often One-Sided
Talking Points Memo: Roe V. Wade Anniversary: Fights Over Abortion Are Often One-Sided Nancy Northup Politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives have already made it clear that—once again—one of their top priorities for the [...]
MSNBC: Victory in North Carolina
MSNBC: Victory in North Carolina The Center for Reproductive Right’s Nancy Northup appeared on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show just hours after a federal judge permanently blocked an unconstitutional forced ultrasound law that did nothing to [...]
Stuart et al. v. Loomis et al. Memorandum Opinion and Order
On September 29, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights challenged a newly enacted North Carolina law which prohibits a woman from getting an abortion until four hours after her physician performs an ultrasound, places the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.