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Center and Partners Challenge Tennessee Medication Abortion “Reversal” Law card link

Center and Partners Challenge Tennessee Medication Abortion “Reversal” Law

The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners have sued to block a Tennessee law requiring doctors to lie to patients by telling them that medication abortions can be “reversed.” Such a “reversal” claim is [...]

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On the 10th Anniversary of Kenya’s Constitution, Center Report Urges Government to Enforce Abortion Rights Protections

Each year in Kenya, more than 2,500 women and girls die from unsafe abortions—despite the fact that the government legalized abortion under specific circumstances a decade ago in its Constitution. Currently, unsafe abortions are a [...]

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Em 67 países, interromper gravidez é decisão da mulher

Brazil's Estado de Minas uses the Center's World Abortion Laws map and database as the basis for an article on the countries where abortion is legal. (in Portuguese)

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The VA doesn’t cover fertility treatments for unmarried veterans or same-sex couples.

USA Today quotes Karla Torres, senior counsel at the Center, in an article on the difficulties faced by military personnel and families who need assisted reproduction services.

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“In Ecuador there was never justice for raped girls”

PledgeTimes quotes Catalina Martínez, the Center's regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, in its reporting on the Center's important victory at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on protecting school girls from sexual [...]

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New Issue Brief Addresses Infertility and IVF Access for Military Servicemembers and Veterans card link

New Issue Brief Addresses Infertility and IVF Access for Military Servicemembers and Veterans

The Center for Reproductive Rights has issued the third issue brief in its “Serving Those Who Serve?” series, addressing the unique barriers to reproductive health care faced by servicemembers, veterans and their families. The new [...]

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Landmark Ruling Will Help Protect Schoolgirls from Sexual Violence Throughout Latin America

The Center and partners win a major case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that sets standards in countries throughout the region. In a landmark ruling with wide-reaching impact, the Inter-American Court of Human [...]

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Abortion, transgender rights likely to land back before Supreme Court

The Washington Post quotes the Center's Hillary Schneller in an analysis of the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings on abortion and transgender rights.

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

Center Launches New Program to Protect Refugee Rights in Uganda card link

Center Launches New Program to Protect Refugee Rights in Uganda

The Center and its partners at CARE International in Uganda have launched a new pilot program to protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls in one of Uganda’s largest [...]

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Center Advocacy Efforts Will Help Improve Maternal Health in Georgia

Law Enacted to Extend Postpartum Medicaid Coverage Aims to Reduce Maternal Mortality, Racial Disparity Advocacy efforts by the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners helped lead to the enactment of a new law in [...]

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Federal Court Reverses Block on Arkansas Abortion Law, Citing John Roberts

Ms. Magazine quotes Center staff attorney Hillary Schneller on the lifting of a block on four restrictive abortion laws in Arkansas by the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Serving Those Who Serve?

The Center for Reproductive Rights and partners have developed a set of three issue briefs focusing on reproductive health care for servicemembers, veterans and their families. The series, titled Serving Those Who Serve?, describes the [...]

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Defending Reproductive Rights with Special Guest U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Center president and CEO Nancy Northup participated with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and other guests in a Defending Reproductive Rights panel hosted by New York State Attorney General Letitia James. The video is now available.

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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