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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.

Abortion, Assisted Reproduction, Maternal Health, SRHR General,United States,Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Publications

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 [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts, Reporting on Rights,Publications

U.S. Abortion Rights in Global Context

When the United States Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, it defied the overwhelming and decades-long global trend of liberalizing abortion laws and marginalized the U.S. on the international stage.

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State Constitutions and Sex Discrimination

The Center’s new map and resource showing how state constitutional guarantees compare to federal protection.

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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. [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts, Reporting on Rights,Publications
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2022 State Legislative Wrap-up

This report provides an overview of the state policy landscape after analyzing hundreds of bills proposed and enacted in U.S. state legislatures relating to reproductive care.

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En Honduras cada día la ley obliga a tres niñas violadas a ser madres

La prohibición absoluta del aborto es una violación a los derechos fundamentales de esas niñas.

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,Latin America & Caribbean, Honduras,Reporting on Rights,Press Releases

The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment

How constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law can help strengthen reproductive rights going forward.

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

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State Constitutions and Abortion Rights

How cases in state supreme courts can offer stronger and expanded legal grounds for protecting abortion rights.

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CEDAW joint NGO submission: Cambodia’s surrogacy situation and surrogacy draft law for consideration by the Committee during its 74th session

The Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC), Gender and Development Network (GADNet), and Center for Reproductive Rights prepared this letter to assist the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee) in its review [...]

Surrogacy,Asia,At the United Nations,Documents

Supplementary Report on the Status of Adolescents’ Reproductive Rights in the Philippines: 2020 Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

The Asia Unit of the Center for Reproductive Rights together with Philippine-based partners submitted supplemental information for the adoption of the list of issues (LOI) for the Republic of the Philippines by the Committee on [...]

Adolescent SRHR,Philippines,Around the World,Documents

Submission to the European Court of Human Rights regarding B.B. v. Poland (ECHR, App. No. 67171/17)

Submission by the Center for Reproductive Rights to the European Court of Human Rights regarding B.B. v. Poland (ECHR, App. No. 67171/17), 24 September 2020

Abortion,Europe, Poland, Accountability Bodies, European Human Rights System,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Documents

The Undue Burden Standard after June Medical Services v. Russo

This report by the Center for Reproductive Rights analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June Medical Services v. Russo, a leading abortion case brought and won by the Center and decided in June 2020. The [...]

Abortion, Definitions, Legal Protections, Legal Restrictions,United States,In the Courts,Publications

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.