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2016 State of the States: A Pivotal Time for Reproductive Rights

12.19.16 - Politicians in statehouses across the country continued to attack women’s access to vital health care services in 2016, introducing more than 500 bills and enacting more than 60 new laws restricting access to reproductive health care this legislative session. 2016 State of the…

Breaking Ground 2016: Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive Rights

09.20.16 - Breaking Ground: Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive Rights, an annual publication from the Center for Reproductive Rights, summarizes the jurisprudence from United Nations treaty monitoring bodies on reproductive rights, particularly the standards on maternal health care, abortion, and…

Annual Report 2015

01.07.16 - The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the power of law to bring reproductive autonomy to women across the globe--whether we are winning freedom for one woman after almost a decade of wrongful imprisonment in El Salvador, or ensuring that more than five million women in Texas have access to…

2015 State of the States: Fighting Back By Pushing Forward

12.07.15 - Politicians in statehouses across the country continued to attack women’s access to vital health care services in 2015, introducing nearly 400 bills and enacting 47 new laws restricting access to reproductive health care this legislative session. 2015 State of the States: Fighting…

Stand Up, Fight TRAP: A Policy and Advocacy Resource to Counter Clinic Shutdown Laws

12.07.15 - Clinics across the country are being forced to close their doors, making it even harder for a woman to get the abortion care she needs, simply because some politicians want to play politics with women’s health…

A Voting Rights Act for Reproductive Rights?

10.01.15 - The following article was written by Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, as part of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law's publication titled "Legal Change: Lessons from America’s Social Movements," in celebration of the Brennan…