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Center for Reproductive Rights
Law Practice
The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights.
About us
For over 25 years, the Center for Reproductive Rights has used the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill. Since 1992, our attorneys have boldly used legal and human rights tools to create this world. We are the only global legal advocacy organization dedicated to reproductive rights, with expertise in both U.S. constitutional and international human rights law. Our groundbreaking cases before national courts, United Nations committees, and regional human rights bodies have expanded access to reproductive healthcare, including birth control, safe abortion, prenatal and obstetric care, and unbiased information. We influence the law outside the courtroom as well, documenting abuses, working with policymakers to promote progressive measures, and fostering legal scholarship and teaching on reproductive health and human rights. We are legal innovators seeking to fundamentally transform the landscape of reproductive health and rights worldwide, and have already strengthened laws and policies in more than 50 countries. Help us realize every woman's right to reproductive health and autonomy.
- Website
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http://reproductiverights.org/
External link for Center for Reproductive Rights
- Industry
- Law Practice
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1992
- Specialties
- Reproductive Rights, Federal Advocacy, State Advocacy, and International Law
Locations
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Primary
Employees at Center for Reproductive Rights
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Maureen Njue-Musau, MBA, CSM
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Catalina Martínez Coral
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Brototi Dutta
Senior Advocacy Adviser for Asia, Center for Reproductive Rights; SRHR/EVAW/Gender & law expertise; Doctoral Scholar
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Rachana Desai Martin
Chief Government and External Relations Officer at the Center for Reproductive Rights
Updates
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Last year, our client Samantha Casiano endured a traumatic forced pregnancy and birth to deliver a baby that survived just four excruciating hours. In the process, her life was altered forever. Samantha and her medical team had known for months that her daughter Halo could not survive outside the womb, but due to Texas’s extreme abortion bans, she was prevented from ending her pregnancy in her home state of Texas. Because Samantha could not afford the thousands of dollars needed to travel out of state and receive essential medical care, she was forced to carry the pregnancy to term. Samantha held her daughter in her arms while the baby gasped for air, its skin changing color and blood trickling from its eyes. Halo died just four hours later. The details are graphic, but they are the reality of what our client Samantha was forced by the state of Texas to endure. As a plaintiff in our Zurawski v. Texas case, Samantha has spent the past year publicly sharing Halo’s story and speaking out against Texas’s cruel laws. She’s determined to see a future where NO ONE has to experience the pain and trauma Texas forced upon her and her family and we’re proud to stand alongside her in this fight.
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📣 Our World Abortion Laws Map is now available EN ESPAÑOL! This interactive tool is our definitive record of the legal status of abortion globally & is updated in real-time to show how countries are protecting—or violating—individuals’ abortion rights: https://t.co/lE9Pcv6SEI
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The majority of Americans SUPPORT ABORTION ACCESS. Do not forget that, no matter how loud the extremists get. This movement is on the right side of history.
Support for legal abortion has risen since Supreme Court eliminated protections, AP-NORC poll finds
apnews.com
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📣 There’s a NEW tool to advance #SRHR for all! We collaborated with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on this interactive toolkit designed to advance a human rights-based approach to universal sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It provides support to health professionals, government officials, civil society organizations, human rights advocates, and United Nations staff and will be your go-to resource for assessing and enhancing the alignment of health systems with international human rights standards. 📚 So, what’s inside? SEVEN thematic modules covering maternal health, contraceptive information and services, sexuality education, abortion care, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, gender-based violence, and harmful practices, and “Essential Questions” to help you evaluate the human rights compliance of your country's health system. 👉 Access the toolkit here: https://lnkd.in/eHdVxbUp 🎥 And learn how to use it here: https://lnkd.in/eJCJYhHD Together, let's champion #HumanRights4All and ensure that SRHR is at the forefront of our efforts towards achieving universal health coverage.
Universal Healthcare Coverage Assessment Tool | United Nations Population Fund
unfpa.org
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Reproductive rights 🤝 bodily autonomy 🤝 disability rights
It's Past Time To Address Reproductive Equity for Disabled People
https://www.americanprogress.org
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⚠️ Today, in a disappointing setback, members of the Polish parliament rejected a landmark bill that could have decriminalized abortion care during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and later under certain conditions. “Polish lawmakers missed a critical opportunity to alleviate the immense suffering endured by thousands of women and girls in #Poland”, said Leah Hoctor, the Center for Reproductive Rights VP for Europe said. The bill was the first of four under consideration. Two of the other bills propose legalizing abortion on request. If the Sejm, Poland’s lower house of parliament, passes any of these bills, they will move to the Senate for adoption and then to the President for approval. Some background: Poland has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe and is one of only two EU countries where abortion on request is not legal. As a result, several women have died and many others have endured extreme harm and suffering after being denied critical abortion care. In Poland providing or assisting with abortion care is currently punishable by up to 3 years of imprisonment. This criminalization deters medical professionals from providing necessary care and subjects anyone who assists to invasive criminal investigations. These laws are DRASTICALLY out of step with European standards, international human rights law, and World Health Organization guidelines, and the time for change is NOW. Despite this setback, we will not back down and we will never stop fighting for our fundamental human right to essential health care. Read our full statement here: https://lnkd.in/emmSg-ik
Statement on Polish Parliament's Failure to Pass Landmark Abortion Decriminalization Bill
reproductiverights.org
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Just a few months after the tragic murder of her beloved teenage son, still reeling with grief, our client Nicole Blackmon received the news that she was pregnant. She and her husband saw the pregnancy as a blessing, another chance at parenthood after the devastating loss of their first son. That hope turned to despair, however, when she learned that the fetus's organs were developing outside its body and it had no chance of survival. Nicole, who was also dangerously ill, needed abortion care, but it was banned in the state of Tennessee. Unable to get the care she desperately needed, Nicole was forced to go through a traumatic stillbirth to deliver. Nicole later decided to have her tubes removed because she was so scared by the prospect of ever enduring such a traumatic pregnancy again. As PBS reports, Nicole’s story not only underscores the desperate need for unrestricted abortion access, it also points to another painful reality: abortion bans disproportionately affect Black women, who are significantly more likely to face barriers in accessing reproductive health services. Tennessee also has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country and Black women are two and a half times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. This is UNACCEPTABLE. Period. And we will not stop fighting for Nicole—and for everyone who’s been cruelly harmed by these extreme bans—until our fundamental rights are fully restored and fully protected. View PBS’s full report: https://to.pbs.org/4cDbMJE
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OUTRAGEOUS: Evidence shows that anti-abortion extremists in Nebraska LIED TO VOTERS in order to deceptively collect signatures in support of an anti-choice ballot measure. It's been proven over and over that the majority of Americans support access to legal abortion. Anti-abortion extremists KNOW that their backwards and harmful position is unpopular and that any fair, democratic process will not yield a win for them, so they are resorting to dirty, dishonest tricks like these. But our movement is stronger than theirs. Our movement is bigger than theirs. And we are NOT backing down from this fight.
Hundreds Say Nebraska Group Tricked Them Into Signing Anti-Abortion Ballot
jezebel.com