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Oklahoma Judge Greenlights Unconstitutional Clinic Shutdown Law

Oklahoma Judge Greenlights Unconstitutional Clinic Shutdown Law State court fails to block unconstitutional restrictions targeting abortion providers, Center for Reproductive Rights plans immediate appeal to state Supreme Court (PRESS RELEASE) A state district court judge [...]

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We Can Be Moved

From Ferguson to Geneva in search of reproductive justice. Join us for "Vote for Our Lives: What's at Stake for Black Women's Health", a Twitter chat with Ebony Magazine and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive [...]

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Whole Woman’s Health v. Lakey: 2014 Supreme Court of the United States Stay Order

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Texas Clinics Closed by Fifth Circuit Can Reopen in Light of Supreme Court Ruling

Texas Clinics Closed by Fifth Circuit Can Reopen in Light of Supreme Court Ruling Nation’s Highest Court Reinstates Injunction Blocking Texas Law that Shuttered Nearly All Abortion Clinics in the State (PRESS RELEASE) In a [...]

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Preventing Maternal Death

In the vast majority of cases, maternal mortality is completely preventable. Why are 800 women a day still dying from pregnancy complications? Maureen, a maternal health advocate in Uganda, remembers losing her cousin—a young woman [...]

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What Happens Without Legal Abortion?

What Happens Without Legal Abortion? Center president and CEO Nancy Northup reflects on the consequences of abortion bans across the world in a thought-provoking MSNBC editorial this week. Northup contextualizes the importance of the global [...]

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Full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Consider Texas Law Shuttering Abortion Clinics Statewide, Leaving Women without Safe, Legal Health Care Options

Full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Consider Texas Law Shuttering Abortion Clinics Statewide Women’s Health Care Providers, Advocates Considering Options as Law Remains in Effect (PRESS RELEASE) The full U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

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Nancy Northup on MSNBC: Fighting for Abortion Access, All the Way to Supreme Court

Nancy Northup on MSNBC: Fighting for Abortion Access, All the Way to Supreme Court What’s next in the fight against the Texas legislation that has forced a historically unparalleled reduction of abortion services? Center for [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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CEDAW Committee holds India Accountable for Failure to Prevent and Prosecute Cases of Child Marriage, and Ensure Access to Reproductive Health Services

CEDAW Committee holds India Accountable for Failure to Prevent and Prosecute Cases of Child Marriage The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee) recently criticized India for failing to address [...]

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Committee on the Rights of the Child Holds India Accountable for Failing to Eliminate Child Marriage and Ensure Access to Reproductive Health Services and Autonomy for Girls

Committee on the Rights of the Child Holds India Accountable for Failing to Eliminate Child Marriage The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (Committee) recently criticized India for a wide range of [...]

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Nancy Northup Talks Texas with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes

Nancy Northup Talks Texas with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes The morning after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction, shuttering all but eight of Texas’s abortion clinics overnight, Nancy Northup appeared on MSNBC’s All [...]

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Texas Health Care Providers Take Fight for Abortion Access to U.S. Supreme Court

Texas Health Care Providers Take Fight for Abortion Access to U.S. Supreme Court Texas women facing devastating loss of constitutionally protected health care (PRESS RELEASE) Following a decision Thursday from the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

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Organization of American States Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women; Calls on Governments to Decriminalize Abortion

OAS Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women, Calls Governments to Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) For the first time ever a committee within the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered to be the United Nations for the [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.