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FAQ: Pro Bono Legal Support for Organizations Affected by the Global Gag Rule
The Center is providing support to U.S. and non-U.S. organizations affected by this regressive policy.
Fact Sheet: The Global Gag Rule and Human Rights
Regressive policy reinstated by the Trump administration undermines health and human rights around the world.
2024 State Legislative Wrap-Up
During 2024, the Center for Reproductive Rights tracked almost 2,000 pieces of reproductive rights legislation across 50 states, and Washington, D.C. This report highlights 2024 legislative trends impacting access to abortion care, assisted reproduction, and [...]
Community Perspectives, Experiences, and Recommendations on Louisiana’s Abortion Bans
Released by Reproductive Health Impact, Lift Louisiana, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, this report draws from interviews with representatives from community-based organizations and Louisianans of reproductive age to demonstrate the harmful impact of Louisiana’s [...]
Criminalized Care: How Louisiana’s Abortion Bans Endanger Patients and Clinicians
Released March 2024 by Reproductive Health Impact, Lift Louisiana, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Physicians for Human Rights, this report documents the human rights impacts of Louisiana’s escalating attacks on reproductive rights and autonomy. [...]
2023 State Legislative Wrap-Up
This policy report by the Center provides an overview of the U.S. state policy landscape after tracking almost 2,000 bills proposed in state legislatures relating to reproductive care.
Dobbs’s Destructive Originalism: Using “History and Tradition” to Undermine Liberty
This analysis by the Center explains the Dobbs majority’s approach to determining what liberty interests the Fourteenth Amendment protects; considers the ways in which the U.S. Supreme Court has previously assessed protected liberty interests; and [...]
Legal Analysis: What Dobbs Got Wrong
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed nearly 50 years of precedent and, for the first time, eliminated a right grounded in personal liberty: the right to abortion. Its ruling in Dobbs v. [...]
2022 State Legislative Wrap-up (Report)
State Policy Report: An overview of the state landscape
U.S. Abortion Laws in Global Context (Fact Sheet)
In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, an onslaught of abortion bans have gone into effect throughout the U.S. Half of U.S. states are currently poised [...]
Global Trends: Abortion Rights 2022
An infographic showing the global trends in abortion rights.
Systemic Racism and Reproductive Injustice in the United States
The Center for Reproductive Rights joined a broad coalition of reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations to submit a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) in preparation for [...]
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, July 2022)
This Center report provides detailed analysis of state high court cases litigated by the Center that built strong protections for abortion rights and access using personal autonomy, privacy, and equality frameworks prior to the Dobbs [...]
(Report) The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment
This Center report delves into constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law that undergird the right to reproductive autonomy.
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, April 2022)
This Center report outlines 11 states in which high courts have recognized that their state constitutions protect abortion rights and access independently from and more strongly than the U.S. Constitution or have struck down restrictions [...]
What You Need to Know About the Historic Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court
On February 25, 2022, President Biden announced his intention to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement. Judge Jackson has had a [...]
2021 State Legislative Wrap-up (Report)
State Policy Report: An overview of the state landscape
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