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Olympics-host France Leads on Liberalizing Abortion
2024 is not only the year France hosts the Summer Olympics but it also marks the year the country became the first ever to explicitly protect abortion in its constitution.
France Becomes First Country to Guarantee a Constitutional Right to Abortion
Groundbreaking amendment was sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling eliminating the right to abortion.
French President Approves Gender Equality Law
French President Approves Gender Equality Law (PRESS RELEASE) France affirms that women can obtain an abortion without restriction as to reason during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy with passage of a sweeping gender equality [...]
Women Must Have Control Over Their Own Bodies
Women Must Have Control Over Their Own Bodies [OP-ED] by Rebecca Brown Earlier this year France was the latest to join a handful of progressive countries to expand access to reproductive health services — with [...]
France: Reproductive Health Care Now Free
France: Reproductive Health Care Now Free As of April 1, women in France who need an abortion can get one without worrying about whether they can afford it. The government will pay 100 percent of [...]
Amicus Brief: Gauer and Others v. France
In August 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed an amicus brief to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Joëlle Gauer and Others —five women with mental disabilities in [...]
Gauer and Others v. France
In August 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed an amicus brief to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Joëlle Gauer and Others —five women with mental disabilities in [...]
Human Rights Groups Unite Against Forced Sterilisation of Five Women with Disabilities in France
A coalition of human rights groups is speaking out against the practice of forced sterilisation of women with mental disabilities in France. On the 16 August, the Center for Reproductive Rights, European Disability Forum, Interights, [...]
Vo. v. France: Amicus Brief
Introduction1. These written comments are submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights pursuant to leave granted by the President of the Grand Chamber in accordance with Rule 44 § 2 of the Rules of Court. [...]
