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55 Members of Congress Call on Secretary of State John Kerry to Review Cases of Salvadoran Women Wrongfully Imprisoned for Pregnancy Complications
55 Members of Congress Call on John Kerry to Review Cases of Salvadoran Women Wrongfully Imprisoned (PRESS RELEASE) Today Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Norma J. Torres delivered a letter from 55 Member of Congress [...]
United States Rejects Calls by U.N. Human Rights Council to End Harmful Restrictions on Reproductive Rights
United States Rejects Calls by U.N. Human Rights Council to End Harmful Restrictions on Reproductive Rights U.S. position leaves women without access to essential health services (PRESS RELEASE) This week the United States government rejected [...]
Government of Ecuador Fails to Protect the Rights of People Living With HIV
Government of Ecuador Fails to Protect the Rights of People Living With HIV (PRESS RELEASE) The Ecuadoran government violated the human rights of a young girl living with HIV according to a ruling by the [...]
Beating Back the Bans
Beating Back the Bans Pre-viability bans on abortion are unconstitutional, unconscionable, and unwarranted. Knowing why is key to defeating them. Instead of improving women’s health in any manner, laws that ban abortion at 20 weeks [...]
U.S. Senate Blocks Vote on Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban
U.S. Senate Blocks Vote on Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban Measure banning abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy would create mandatory delay for rape survivors, makes no exceptions for women’s health (PRESS RELEASE) Pro-choice Senators voted [...]
U.S. House Passes Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding
U.S. House Passes Harmful Measure Stripping Planned Parenthood of All Federal Funding House also passes measure criminalizing doctors, interfering with practice of medicine (PRESS RELEASE) Despite one in five women depending on Planned Parenthood in her [...]
Virginia Board of Health Votes to Amend Regulations Designed to Shutter Abortion Clinics
Virginia Board of Health Votes to Amend Regulations Designed to Shutter Abortion Clinics (PRESS RELEASE) The Virginia Board of Health voted 9--6 today to lift some of the harsh restrictions in the state’s Texas-style clinic regulations [...]
Kenyan High Court: Maternity Hospital Illegally Imprisoned Women, Violated Human Rights
Kenyan High Court: Maternity Hospital Illegally Imprisoned Women, Violated Human Rights Court orders Ministry of Health to address discrimination in public hospitals and award compensation to women who were unlawfully detained (PRESS RELEASE) The High Court [...]
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Chile’s Health Commission Approves Abortion Bill
Chile’s Health Commission Approves Abortion Bill (PRESS RELEASE) Rape survivors will be able to access safe abortion services within 14 weeks of pregnancy according to the latest version of Chile’s abortion bill advanced by the [...]
Kenyan “Doctor” Arrested for Raping Female Patient
Kenyan “Doctor” Arrested for Raping Female Patient (PRESS RELEASE) This week Mugo Wairimu, an owner of health clinics posing as a gynecologist, was arrested after multiple Kenyan news outlets reported on a video exposé showing [...]
Women’s Health Care Providers Ask United States Supreme Court to Take On Texas Clinic Shutdown Law
Women’s Health Care Providers Ask U.S Supreme Court to Take On Texas Clinic Shutdown Law As few as 10 clinics will remain in Texas if nation’s highest court fails to intervene (PRESS RELEASE) Today a [...]
Black Mamas Matter
African American women are nearly four times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. Without healthy black mothers, there cannot be healthy black families and communities. “I was hurting so bad I didn't [...]
Pakistani High Court Calls for Response to Allegations Women Are Denied Maternal Health Services
Pakistani High Court Calls for Response to Allegations Women Are Denied Maternal Health Services (PRESS RELEASE) Today the High Court of Sindh ordered the government of Sindh to respond by September 29 to a petition [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.