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Virginia Health Care Providers File New Lawsuit Challenging Longstanding Abortion Restrictions

06.20.18 - (PRESS RELEASE) — Today, a group of health care providers in Virginia announced a legal challenge to protect and expand access to safe, legal abortion…

New York State Senate Passes Legislation to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes

06.20.18 - (PRESS RELEASE) Yesterday, the New York State Senate passed a bill (S. 8907) supporting a statewide maternal mortality review board to reduce New York’s maternal mortality and morbidity rates and promote better, more equitable maternal health outcomes.  …

A Proactive Vision for Reproductive Health and Rights

06.14.18 - “This year has been a battle. But not today! Today, we are going to explore strategies for a proactive agenda to secure access and services for women in our communities.” With those words, Lourdes Rivera, Senior Vice President of U.S…

UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty Calls on U.S. to Recognize Health Care as a Human Right

06.04.18 - (PRESS RELEASE) – The Center for Reproductive Rights echoes concerns raised by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights in his new report on poverty and human rights in the United States.  The report…

Brown Honors Nancy Northup

05.31.18 - Brown University has awarded an honorary doctorate to Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, in recognition of her leadership in the fight to promote and protect reproductive rights in the U.S. and around the world…

Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Trump Administration’s Attack on Title X Family Planning Program

05.22.18 - (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights denounced the Trump administration’s latest move to block women’s access to critical health care through a proposed rule that would prohibit granting federal Title X family planning funds to family planning providers that also perform…

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Our Work in Focus

Why Roe v. Wade Matters
Black Mamas Matter: A Toolkit for Advancing the Human Right to Safe and Respectful Maternal Health Care
(Revised 05.08.18) The Center originally published this toolkit in 2016. Since then, our collaborators have taken the movement for Black maternal health, rights, and justice to new levels…
Tools of Transformation
Across the United States, Black women die or suffer serious illness during and after childbirth in dramatically disproportionate numbers—three to four times higher—than do their white counterparts…