Report: Legal and Human Rights Centre and Center for Reproductive Rights (on behalf of Tanzanian girls) v. The United Republic of Tanzania
In June 2019, the Legal and Human Rights Centre and Center for Reproductive Rights filed a case against the United Republic of Tanzania before the African Committe of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of [...]
In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths
NPR
In "In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths," NPR features the stories of Texan mothers Samantha Casiano and Lauren Miller. Both women became plaintiffs in Zurawski v. Texas—the Center's case [...]
Maputo Protocol at 20: Progress on Abortion Rights in Africa
Reporting on the progress of this historic human rights instrument to explicitly guarantee the right to legal abortion in Africa.
One year after Roe v. Wade’s reversal, warnings about abortion become reality
Multiple outlets
June 24 marked one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, bringing devastating consequences to people across the country. Multiple media outlets reported on the grim reality of a year without Roe, highlighting [...]
Dobbs’s Destructive Originalism: Using “History and Tradition” to Undermine Liberty
This analysis by the Center explains the Dobbs majority’s approach to determining what liberty interests the Fourteenth Amendment protects; considers the ways in which the U.S. Supreme Court has previously assessed protected liberty interests; and [...]
‘Incalculable’ impact: Three ways the Supreme Court abortion decision changed the USA
USA Today
In this piece for USA Today, the Center's Nancy Northup speaks about the devastating impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling eliminating the constitutional right to abortion one year ago. “It’s an incredible hardship and [...]
Gender Equality Under State Constitutions
Brennan Center for Justice
In this contributing post to the Brennan Center for Justice's blog, two Center attorneys discuss the organization's new resource that details the landscape of state constitutional standards for deciding sex discrimination claims. The new resource State [...]
Ukrainian refugees living in EU forced to travel back for abortions, study warns
Multiple outlets
Multiple media outlets reported on a new study published by a collective of nine human rights organizations, including the Center for Reproductive Rights, which found that women who have fled the invasion of Ukraine face [...]
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‘Neighbors can come after neighbors’: Attorney warns of vigilante abortion laws in the South
NBC's Meet the Press
In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, the Center's Senior Staff Attorney Molly Duane discussed the May 22 addition of eight new plaintiffs to the Center's lawsuit against Texas on behalf of women denied [...]
More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law
AP News
In "More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law," AP News reported on the additional eight Texas women joining the Center's lawsuit against the state. Although the women faced [...]
More women are set to sue Texas over its abortion ban — claiming their lives were put at risk.
ABC's Good Morning America
ABC's Good Morning America ran this exclusive segment about the additional eight Texas women joining the Center's lawsuit against the state. The women faced dangerous and severe pregnancy complications and were denied abortion care in [...]
Care in Crisis: Failures to guarantee the sexual and reproductive health and rights of refugees from Ukraine in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia
The Center for Reproductive Rights and eight partner organizations documented the gaps and barriers in access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and gender-based violence support services that are faced by refugees from Ukraine in Hungary, [...]
In the Post-Roe Era, Letting Pregnant Patients Get Sicker—By Design
The New Yorker
In "In the Post-Roe Era, Letting Pregnant Patients Get Sicker—By Design," the New Yorker features the story of Amanda Zurawski, the lead plaintiff in the Center’s groundbreaking lawsuit against the state of Texas that seeks to clarify [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
