Federal Employees Deserve Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care: Congress Should Remove the Prohibition on Abortion Coverage in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pub_fac_FEHBP_09.pdf
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/HRD-Cover.jpg The Center is proud to present its groundbreaking report, “Defending Human Rights: Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment.” Physicians and reproductive healthcare professionals who work to provide abortions are frequently denied government and societal support for their critical work. As a result, women in the U.S. are denied their fundamental human rights. Download […]
Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights applauded the Senate Appropriations Committee for voting to discontinue the ban on funding for abortion services that specifically targeted woman in Washington, D.C. Currently, the District of Columbia is prohibited from using local tax money to pay for abortion services for low-income women except in extremely limited circumstances – when […]
House Committee Votes to Eliminate Ban on District Using Local Money for Abortion Services New York—The Center for Reproductive Rights strongly urges Congress to repeal the ban on funding for abortion services specifically targeted at Washington, D.C. Late last night, the House Appropriations Committee voted to discontinue prohibiting the District of Columbia from using local […]
American Constitution Society blog Two of the Center’s U.S. Legal Program fellows Rebecca Hart and Dana Sussman authored a post on the American Constitution Society blog on the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) which was passed in 1994 to safeguard abortion providers and their patients from violence. Since the assassination of Dr. […]
The Human Rights Council at its 11th regular session adopted a landmark resolution on “Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights.” In this resolution, governments express grave concern for the unacceptably high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, acknowledge that this is a human rights issue, and commit to enhance their efforts at the […]
As part of our efforts for the approval of the Human Rights Resolution, “Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity and Human Rights,” that was adopted at the 11th session of the Human Rights Council, the Center hosted, together with other organizations, an event at the HRC featuring an expert panel to discuss maternal mortality and human […]
April 11 is National Safe Motherhood Day in India. On this day, the Center for Reproductive Rights calls on India to take urgent measures to reduce the country’s staggering number of maternal deaths and injuries. Over 100,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes each year in India. For every woman who dies, some 30-50 women develop […]
In September 2004, a pregnant woman died as a result of being denied access to medical care for fear of harming the fetus. Her mother, Z., is suing Poland for having violated her daughter’s rights including her right to life, private life, freedom from in human and degrading treatment, effective remedy, and non-discrimination. Filing date: […]
The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear. Initially published in 2002, Bringing Rights to Bear takes a long, hard look at the thousands of comments, statements, and recommendations produced by UN treaty-monitoring bodies, analyzing their potential for advancing reproductive rights. Our 2008 update, produced as a series of […]