Center for Reproductive Rights
- 06.04.15 - A new study on fetal survival rates underscores the highly individual nature of reproductive health decisions and the importance of entrusting these decisions to those most affected by them, writes Center for Reproductive Rights president and CEO Nancy Northup in a powerful op-ed this week in Time magazine. (reproductiverights.org)
- Watch the video below to support the Center for Reproductive Rights in their efforts, then spread the word and talk to your friends and your local politicians about this extremely important issue. (care2.com)
- 08.23.13 - (PRESS RELEASE) The Costa Rican government continues to violate women's fundamental human rights and its own laws by denying pregnant women medically necessary abortion services, according to a new petition filed today by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. (reproductiverights.org)
- Separately from "Aurora," the Center for Reproductive Rights and Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir filed a petition in 2008 before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of "A.N.", a 26 year-old Costa Rican who was told that she was carrying an unviable anencephalic fetus (without a brain) 6 weeks into her pregnancy. (reproductiverights.org)
woman's right
- as well as on other issues, NOMAS affirms and supports the individual woman's right to choose, without governmental, judicial and familial interference. (nomas.org)
- 5 Over the past decade, organizers have also begun to cast access to midwifery as a "consumer rights" issue- one in which a woman's "right to choose" has been restricted by ill-informed public policies concerning midwives and homebirth. (xlibx.info)
women's health
- We invite you to also join our Facebook community or follow us on Twitter to get the most up to date news on issues affecting women's health and rights. (reproductiverights.org)
fundamental human
- The bill calls for U.S. Congress and the President to guarantee and protect reproductive rights as fundamental human rights and stop the attacks by politicians who want to take those rights away. (care2.com)
legislators
- They have nothing to do with the safe delivery of services for women and everything to do with legislators' views on reproductive rights. (wordpress.com)
women
- Being a pro-feminist organization, NOMAS defers to the position of the National Organization for Women on the issue of reproductive rights of women. (nomas.org)
- Access to professional midwifery care is a basic reproductive right that women in the United States have long been denied. (xlibx.info)
- American women will be able to reclaim their basic reproductive right to midwifery care. (xlibx.info)
- Access to EC and other reproductive technologies that work is vitally important for women. (wordpress.com)
- Women need the ability to prevent pregnancy as part of their reproductive rights. (wordpress.com)
- The Center's legal victories brought us closer to our vision of a world where women have the reproductive autonomy to fulfill their destinies. (reproductiverights.org)
- At this year's UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the usual tension in intergovernmental negotiations on the inclusion of reproductive rights in the Commission's consensus outcome document was intensified by a hardening of conservative positions on the family around the world. (opendemocracy.net)
- Mothers are women too, right? (opendemocracy.net)
- There are no easy answers," says Northup, citing a range of reproductive decisions women regularly encounter-including abortion, fertility treatments and surrogacy, health risks during childbirth, and aggressive medical interventions for preemies. (reproductiverights.org)
- As the war on women sallies forth, the state of reproductive rights scales backward in time. (care2.com)
- Extremist politicians believe anti-choice legislation supports women s rights, when in fact it only limits accessibility and criminalizes the women who seek abortions. (care2.com)
- While these three ways of supporting reproductive health won t amend all the problems within the reproductive health sphere, they will help women in your community and at the national level. (care2.com)
- women are finally standing up for their rights and look at how hard it has been thus far! (care2.com)
pregnancy
- Recent events such as the spread of the Zika virus in Latin America raise the stakes in international debates on women's right to terminate pregnancy. (opendemocracy.net)
- In its long history of abortion rights decisions, the Supreme Court has rejected defining viability by a fixed gestational age and has repeatedly affirmed that personal decision-making about ending a pregnancy is integral to our right to privacy and liberty. (reproductiverights.org)
sexual
- However, anyone who works in the area of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights knows better than to assume inexorable forward progress. (opendemocracy.net)
Inter-Americ
- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing in the case of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín, an Ecuadorian teenager who was sexually abused repeatedly by her school's vice-principal for two years. (reproductiverights.org)
abortion
- Many midwifery supporters have initially been hesitant to describe their struggle as one for reproductive rights because of associations with feminist efforts for women's choice regarding abortion and contraception. (xlibx.info)
- Despite recent legislation and the expansion of abortion rights in certain parts of the nation , the tide is largely turning in the opposite direction. (care2.com)
- It is these types of sentiments that propel politicians of the pro-life movement to seek more limited abortion rights. (care2.com)
- When and where will the line on restrictive abortion rights be drawn? (care2.com)
past
- Information that extends outside of Canda to past and current reproductive rights and the ways they relate to Canadian reproductive rights. (wordpress.com)
- Legislative maneuverings are nothing new, but the Virginia General Assembly, with some last minute shenanigans during this past session, may have just maneuvered itself into reproductive rights morass with very real legal implications. (wordpress.com)
recent
- 2 A second national effort aimed at gaining federal recognition of CPMs was spearheaded in 2009 by the Midwives and Mothers in Action (MAMA) Cam- paign, a collaborative effort by several professional organizations for midwives and "consumer" groups supporting midwives.3 Both of these campaigns have 2 Introduction drawn nationwide public attention to the recent efforts aimed at expanding women's reproductive rights to include access to midwifery care. (xlibx.info)
- Recent scholarly and popular books have described midwifery as "a global feminist issue"4 and have positioned the right to birth where and with whom one chooses as a "basic reproductive right. (xlibx.info)
- Speakers echoed Pope Francis's recent condemnation of " ideological colonization that tries to destroy the family," and framed reproductive rights advocacy in the Global South as the neocolonialist imposition of a uniquely Western value system, one perpetuating a "culture of death. (opendemocracy.net)
health care
- Denying any woman essential health care when her health is at risk is a clear and serious violation of her human rights. (reproductiverights.org)
work
- Since 1992, the Center's innovative legal work has fundamentally transformed the landscape of reproductive health and rights worldwide, and has already strengthened laws and policies in more than 50 countries. (reproductiverights.org)
Human Rights
- The coalition had their first major victory in July, when the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution on the "Protection of the Family. (opendemocracy.net)
protect
- For as much power as politicians have in taking away reproductive rights, individuals have just as much impact and agency in taking steps to protect their health and the health of those around them. (care2.com)
access
- This intensified "push" is the continuation of growing support for access to midwives across the nation since the 1970s that has paralleled (but in some cases been at odds with) the broader reproductive rights movement. (xlibx.info)
- If I were a man I would be fighting for my reproductive rights for the creation of and access to more then just vasectomies. (wordpress.com)
bill
- The Bill of Reproductive Rights is a historic effort spearheaded by thousands of concerned citizens who want equal reproductive rights for all. (care2.com)
importance
- Yet midwifery organizers-including those who identify as pro-choice and pro-life-have adopted the language of "rights" and "choice" to describe the importance of expanding women's maternity care options. (xlibx.info)
members
- The panel addressed a mostly Caucasian audience of about 400, amongst which were members of several prominent family rights groups. (opendemocracy.net)
life
- This year it partnered with conservative family rights organizations such as the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and the Campaign Life Coalition in a series of side events at UNHQ. (opendemocracy.net)
- At these events, pro-family rhetoric sidestepped traditional appeals to right to life in favour of a different approach. (opendemocracy.net)
available
- Materials of this site are available for review, all rights belong to their respective owners. (xlibx.info)
reproduction and reproductive health
- Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world. (wikipedia.org)
- Reproductive rights are a sub-set of human rights pertaining to issues of reproduction and reproductive health. (wikipedia.org)
accessing reproductive health care
- We cannot ignore the fact this bill was passed only after a pro choice President appeased a gang of anti-choice legislators by agreeing to sign an Executive Order restating the Hyde Amendment - a longstanding and shameful provision which bars low-income women from accessing reproductive health care. (google.com)
fight for reproductive rights
- Groups continuing to fight for reproductive rights across the region have faced a strong resistance from the Catholic church as well as the religious right in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
women of reproductive age
- For example, although the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 88% of all women of reproductive age use some form of contraception, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's 43-page guide requires hospital personnel to remain silent regarding contraception information. (solidarity-us.org)
- Medicaid currently serves approximately 6.5 million women in the United States, including 1 in 5 women of reproductive age (women aged 15-44). (wikipedia.org)
Female Genital Mu
- Reproductive rights may also include the right to receive education about sexually transmitted infections and other aspects of sexuality, and protection from practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM). (wikipedia.org)
coercion
- They also include the right of all to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence. (wikipedia.org)
- The U.S. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017 were released last week, and now feature statistics on "coercion in population control" instead of "reproductive rights. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- Likewise, it is making the right decision in recognizing the way abortion is used as a tool of coercion. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- These rights may include some or all of the following: the right to legal or safe abortion, the right to birth control, the right to access quality reproductive healthcare, and the right to education and access in order to make reproductive choices free from coercion, discrimination, and violence. (wikipedia.org)
Center
- 09.27.10 - In September, the Center submitted a shadow letter to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) on the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Uganda. (reproductiverights.org)
- QUOTE: According to a team of foreign and Slovak investigators for the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which published a report last month, doctors in eastern Slovakia have sterilized at least 110 young Gypsy women against their will since the fall of Communism in 1989. (fairness.com)
- Watch the video below to support the Center for Reproductive Rights in their efforts, then spread the word and talk to your friends and your local politicians about this extremely important issue. (care2.com)
- The Center for Reproductive Rights and its Hungarian partner, PATENT Association, offered critical guidance to the Committee throughout the process. (reproductiverights.org)
- The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is a global legal advocacy organization that seeks to advance reproductive rights. (wikipedia.org)
- Founded by Janet Benshoof in 1992, its original name was the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. (wikipedia.org)
- The Center for Reproductive Rights is Headquartered in New York City. (wikipedia.org)
- The Center continually monitors the treatment of reproductive rights in various media in the US and abroad. (wikipedia.org)
- Charity Watch rates the Center for Reproductive Rights "A-". In July, 2011 the CRR filed suit against the state of North Dakota over a state law that would ban all medical abortions. (wikipedia.org)
- The appeal, handled by the Center for Reproductive Rights, is U.S. Supreme Court docket number 16-274, Whole Woman's Health v. Cole. (wikipedia.org)
- In 2016 the Center expanded its international program, including the launch of an international litigation campaign that has included the first abortion case decided by the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the first case to frame preventable maternal deaths as a human rights violation. (wikipedia.org)
- Center for Reproductive Rights takes legal action to block North Dakota attack on women's health, abortion rights" (Press release). (wikipedia.org)
- ACLU and Center for Reproductive Rights Ask Federal Court to Block Arkansas Abortion Ban" (Press release). (wikipedia.org)
- It placed rights at the center of population and development and defined reproductive health as "a state of complete, physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. (wikipedia.org)
- Janet Benshoof (May 10, 1947 - December 18, 2017) was an American human rights lawyer and President and Founder of the Global Justice Center. (wikipedia.org)
- She founded the Center for Reproductive Rights, the world's first international human rights organization focused on reproductive choice and equality. (wikipedia.org)
- Benshoof was President of the Global Justice Center (GJC), a New York City based international human rights law organization she founded in 2005. (wikipedia.org)
- During this case, the Reproductive Freedom Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Planned Parenthood collectively represented a pregnant Medicaid recipient and health care providers who challenged the Hyde Amendment. (wikipedia.org)
Justice
- It is because of our faith, not in spite of it, that Catholics for Choice support the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act (RHNDA), authored by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) and sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice California and California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. (mercurynews.com)
- This article focuses on the continuing assault on reproductive justice in 2013, particularly at the hands of state legislators. (solidarity-us.org)
- See "Reproductive Justice Needed! (solidarity-us.org)
- Based in the global south, they are a membership-driven organization that "works within the rights, justice and feminist frameworks. (wikipedia.org)
- For 2010-2015, WGNRR's Call for Action campaigns will defend international human rights commitments, and demand respect for sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice. (wikipedia.org)
- WGNRR has since adopted the day to mobilize members around the world to "advocate for reproductive justice and the decriminalisation of abortion. (wikipedia.org)
organization
- The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows: Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health. (wikipedia.org)
- The Prince Edward Island Reproductive Rights Organization (PRRO) is a special interest group advocating to have abortions performed in Prince Edward Island. (wikipedia.org)
- The Prince Edward Island Reproductive Rights Organization held a second rally on October 20, 2012, and were joined by other pro-choice groups across the country who were demanding abortion access on Prince Edward Island as their primary objective. (wikipedia.org)
- Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide. (wikipedia.org)
functions and processes
- The Cairo Program is the first international policy document to define reproductive health, stating: Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. (wikipedia.org)
contraception
- Previously, the "reproductive rights" section of the report included information about the legality of abortion within a country as well as the availability of contraception. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- The Committee also urged Hungarian authorities to "[c]ease all negative interference with women's sexual and reproductive rights including by ending campaigns that stigmatize abortion and seek to negatively influence the public view on abortion and contraception. (reproductiverights.org)
- Reproductive rights may also include the right to receive education about contraception and sexually transmitted infections, and freedom from coerced sterilization, abortion, and contraception, and protection from gender-based practices such as female genital cutting (FGC) and male genital mutilation (MGM). (wikipedia.org)
- Her successful legal efforts range from the approval of emergency contraception for women by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to the application of international rape law to ensure the rights of women in the Iraqi High Tribunal's prosecutions of Saddam-era war crimes. (wikipedia.org)
activists
- As I write this, I'm not sure whether reproductive rights activists are in a boat that is sinking, or on the brink of the next chapter of transformation for women and the planet. (ontheissuesmagazine.com)
- Feminist anti-abortion groups say they are continuing the tradition of 19th-century women's rights activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Victoria Woodhull, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Alice Paul who considered abortion to be an evil forced upon women by men. (wikipedia.org)
Latin America
- It also defined strategies and goals for advancing such reproductive health and rights in Latin America through what is called the Cairo Programme of Action (CPA). (wikipedia.org)
- Tavares has written many books, monographs and papers related to sociology of race relations in Brazil, rights and entitlements of women, and microfinance in Latin America. (wikipedia.org)
abortions
- In her book on reproductive politics in the U.S., Rickie Solinger notes that 25-40 percent of all pregnancies were terminated in the 1930s, a steep increase over abortions in the 1920s. (sun-sentinel.com)
- Extremist politicians believe anti-choice legislation supports women s rights, when in fact it only limits accessibility and criminalizes the women who seek abortions. (care2.com)
- The clinic provides multiple reproductive health services, including abortions, birth control and checkups. (wikipedia.org)
- Hodgson's 50-year career focused on providing reproductive health care to women, including abortions. (wikipedia.org)
1995
- Hodgson's advocacy for, and contributions to, the field of women's health earned her the National Abortion Federation's Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award in 1981, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award in 1995, and the American Medical Women's Association's National Reproductive Health Award in 1994. (wikipedia.org)
restrictions
- What we do know is that the health care bill includes the Nelson amendment which imposes significant restrictions on access to reproductive health care. (google.com)
- Eventually, legal limits will be imposed, limits which will raise questions about the constitutionality of restrictions on reproductive and genetic choice. (brookings.edu)
- The committee slammed the restrictions as discriminatory in its review of Hungary's government for its reproductive health care policies, and did so using groundbreaking language. (reproductiverights.org)
- In recent years, CRR is one of three primary groups challenging increased state level restrictions to reproductive health and abortion care. (wikipedia.org)
1994
- The United Nations International Conference on Population and Development of 1994 held in Cairo, Egypt established the first global agenda for sexual and reproductive health and rights. (wikipedia.org)
- The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development defined reproductive health as noted above. (wikipedia.org)
legislation
- Until women's perspectives, positions, and priorities are fully incorporated into our nation's policies, ego-tripping representatives out for their fifteen minutes of fame will again and again attempt to use our reproductive rights to highjack legislation. (google.com)
- Despite recent legislation and the expansion of abortion rights in certain parts of the nation , the tide is largely turning in the opposite direction. (care2.com)
- Legislation could help advance religious freedom and human rights in China's far western. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- Timeline of reproductive rights legislation, a chronological list of laws and legal decisions affecting human reproductive rights. (wikipedia.org)
- Whether these provisions may, by themselves, be the source of enforceable rights without implementing legislation has been the subject of considerable debate in the legal sphere and within the Supreme Court. (wikipedia.org)
birth
- This important bill would protect workers from discrimination based on their personal reproductive health choices, such as whether we use birth control, use in-vitro fertilization or seek an abortion. (mercurynews.com)
- 1778 - In Sweden, the first Infanticide Act granted mothers the right and the means for an anonymous birth. (wikipedia.org)
- 1856 - In Sweden, an amendment to the 1778 Infanticide Act restricts the right to give birth anonymously to a mere confidential birth. (wikipedia.org)
advocates
- As a new administration takes form, human rights advocates have showed concern over a possible. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- This placement, according to Oaks, has eroded a feminist sense of identity separate from other anti-abortion groups, despite pro-woman arguments that are distinct from the fetal rights arguments put forward by other anti-abortion advocates. (wikipedia.org)
woman's
- sparking an intense debate over the competing rights of pharmacists to refuse to participate in something they consider repugnant and a woman's right to get medications her doctor has prescribed. (fairness.com)
- During the second-wave era of the late 1960s and 1970s the tenets of the emerging group of anti-abortion feminists were rejected by mainstream feminists who held that for full participation in society, a woman's "moral and legal right to control her fertility" needed to be a fundamental principle. (wikipedia.org)
- From 2009 to 2013, she worked as the UN representative for Brazil and Regional Programme Director of UN Women's Brazil & Southern Cone Office, and particularly engaged in issues related to race relations and woman's rights. (wikipedia.org)
Issues
- Sensing, perhaps, that they are losing the public relations battle after Senate candidate Todd Akin 's forehead-slapping views on 'legitimate rape' and the female body's magical ability to guard against pregnancy, Republicans are trying now to focus on the 'real' issues of the economy and jobs, which play to businessman Mitt Romney 's strengths, rather than the 'side issue' of reproductive rights. (sun-sentinel.com)
- In this narrative, reproductive freedom is relevant only to special interest groups and liberals anxious to draw attention away from the 'real' issues facing our nation. (sun-sentinel.com)
- But, as almost any woman could tell you, the Republican narrative splitting reproductive issues from the 'real' issues of jobs and the economy does not square with the actual lives of women. (sun-sentinel.com)
- We invite you to also join our Facebook community or follow us on Twitter to get the most up to date news on issues affecting women's health and rights. (reproductiverights.org)
- One out of every nine U.S. hospital beds is in a Catholic hospital, governed by a document that guides various medical practices, including reproductive health issues. (solidarity-us.org)
- Issues related to reproductive rights are some of the most vigorously contested rights' issues worldwide, regardless of the population's socioeconomic level, religion or culture. (wikipedia.org)
- The Vatican replaced hundreds of progressive clergy and summarily repressed discussions of reproductive issues. (wikipedia.org)
- Access to Safe Abortion Access to Contraceptives Abortion Rights Advocacy Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Sexual Rights WGNRR has facilitated several international campaigns on a wide range of issues including maternal mortality and morbidity, poverty, forced sterilization and the sexual and reproductive rights of youth. (wikipedia.org)
maternal
- One particular goal in regard to reproductive health, Goal 5, seeks to improve maternal health within the region. (wikipedia.org)
healthcare
- Government must protect the right of all Americans-including employees of Catholic institutions-to make their own moral decisions about their healthcare. (mercurynews.com)
discrimination
- The proposed non-discrimination act affirms that in California we respect everyone's right to make personal medical decisions, no matter their faith or place of employment, and that no one should risk their ability to support their family for choosing the care that is best for them. (mercurynews.com)
- The Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act does not mandate that employers change their beliefs. (mercurynews.com)
- The non-discrimination act shows that California is on the right side of this debate. (mercurynews.com)
- We need to stem the tide, and the legislature can start by supporting the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act. (mercurynews.com)
Gender Equality
- She served for 15 years as director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project, which litigated cases dealing with gender equality, free speech, and reproductive choice. (wikipedia.org)
- The GJC works to help implement and enforce human rights laws that advance gender equality. (wikipedia.org)
human
- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing in the case of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín, an Ecuadorian teenager who was sexually abused repeatedly by her school's vice-principal for two years. (reproductiverights.org)
- Reproductive rights began to develop as a subset of human rights at the United Nation's 1968 International Conference on Human Rights. (wikipedia.org)
- The resulting non binding Proclamation of Teheran was the first international document to recognize one of these rights when it stated that: "Parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their children. (wikipedia.org)
- Thus, while some of these rights have already been recognized in hard law, that is, in legally binding international human rights instruments, others have been mentioned only in non binding recommendations and, therefore, have at best the status of soft law in international law, while a further group is yet to be accepted by the international community and therefore remains at the level of advocacy. (wikipedia.org)
- The U.S. State Department has removed the term "reproductive rights" from its annual human rights report, drawing praise from pro-life leaders who say that the phrase had become a thinly veiled reference to abortion. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- Reproductive rights' has long been a euphemism for destroying human life in the womb," said Lila Rose, founder and president of the pro-life group Live Action. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- Michael G. Kozak, a senior official with the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, said in a press briefing that the changes are "not a diminishment of women's rights or a desire to get away from it," but rather were done in order "to stop using a term that has several different meanings that are not all the ones we intend. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told CNA that she thinks the State Department was correct in making this change, and that abortion is an "inappropriate indicator of human rights. (catholicnewsagency.com)
- 8. Can we bridge the artificially constructed gap between people who recognize abortion as an essential human right, and people who condemn the choice of abortion as irresponsible and uncaring? (ontheissuesmagazine.com)
- The organization's stated mission is to "use the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill. (wikipedia.org)
- She taught human rights law at Bard College and Harvard Law School and was a visiting lecturer at Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, Case Western Reserve, and Harvard Universities. (wikipedia.org)
- She also lectured and trained women leaders, judges, parliamentarians, and various UN bodies on implementing international human rights laws (such as CEDAW) and international humanitarian law, including women's rights to criminal accountability under Security Council Resolutions and by the International Criminal Court. (wikipedia.org)
California
- Across California, employers have attempted to impose their religious beliefs on workers' private reproductive health decisions. (mercurynews.com)
- Whatever happens at the federal level, we must make sure that California maintains its commitment to reproductive freedom. (mercurynews.com)
- California court affirms gay parenting: Ruling sets responsibilities, rights of homosexual parents but spurs backlash by same-sex marriage opponents. (fairness.com)
- QUOTE: In California, the bill updates the 1967 state law that made abortion legal, and it further expands abortion rights, including a first-of-its-kind provision allowing nurses and midwives to prescribe abortion drugs. (fairness.com)
- Rebecca Reichmann Tavares, from Southern California, USA, has worked in the field of race relations and women's rights. (wikipedia.org)
Supreme Court
- Supporters of abortion rights say the ban the Senate passed this week is every bit as unconstitutional as the law thrown out by the Supreme Court. (fairness.com)
responsibilities
- This right was affirmed by the UN General Assembly in the 1969 Declaration on Social Progress and Development which states "The family as a basic unit of society and the natural environment for the growth and well-being of all its members, particularly children and youth, should be assisted and protected so that it may fully assume its responsibilities within the community. (wikipedia.org)
practices
- It is about respecting an individual's right to follow their own conscience in religious beliefs and practices as well as in moral decision making. (mercurynews.com)
population
- The issue of reproductive rights is frequently presented as being of vital importance in discussions and articles by population concern organizations such as Population Matters. (wikipedia.org)
- During the Cold War, reproductive policies were directed at controlling overpopulation through technocratic regulatory mechanisms and vertical population control campaigns. (wikipedia.org)
- WGNRR's support of the ICPD's inclusion of right to access of safe abortion was still tempered by its concern over the language and the fear of the misuse of such a document by proponents of coerced population control. (wikipedia.org)
- She has coauthored with Sonia Correa, a book titled Population and Reproductive Rights. (wikipedia.org)
1947
- Hodgson eventually opened her own clinic in St Paul, Minnesota in 1947, and for the next 50 years provided reproductive health care to women. (wikipedia.org)
Constitution
- The majority opinion of the court contended the 1991 Constitution, which recognizes life as a fundamental right (in article 11) and cites it as one of the founding principles in the constitutional preamble and article 2, recognized the "primacy and inviolability of life", excluding any possibility for abortion and allowing the legislator to penalize such acts. (wikipedia.org)
- In addition, the Court said, if the Constitution gives couples the right to decide their number of children, this right could only be exercised prior to conception since conception creates a being which is existentially distinct from the mother. (wikipedia.org)
state
- As the war on women sallies forth, the state of reproductive rights scales backward in time. (care2.com)
matters
- Reproductive Health Matters. (wikipedia.org)
feminist
- As Mother Jones ' Mariah Blake explained , "men's rights forums on sites like 4chan and Reddit are awash in misogyny and anti-feminist vitriol" -- a trend that has turned such sites into what Vox's Aja Romano called a "gateway drug" that leads people into the "alt-right. (mediamatters.org)
- As democracy began to spread across the region, feminist movements gradually began to push for reproductive rights. (wikipedia.org)
- Oaks has written that while Irish abortion opponents valorize child-bearing and are critical of the notion that women have "a right to an identity beyond motherhood", some, such as Breda O'Brien, founder of Feminists for Life Ireland, also offer feminist-inspired arguments that women's contributions to society are not limited to such functions. (wikipedia.org)
- Anti-abortion feminist organizations do distinguish themselves as "pro-woman" organizations as opposed to "fetal rights" organizations. (wikipedia.org)
legal
- The Center's legal victories brought us closer to our vision of a world where women have the reproductive autonomy to fulfill their destinies. (reproductiverights.org)
- Since 1992, the Center's innovative legal work has fundamentally transformed the landscape of reproductive health and rights worldwide, and has already strengthened laws and policies in more than 50 countries. (reproductiverights.org)
- Her training on gender rights and international law at the Iraqi High Tribunal resulted in the first legal decision in the Middle East to confer women rights under international law. (wikipedia.org)
campaigns
- This has made such communities hotbeds of racist commentary , misogyny , and politically motivated harassment campaigns , in addition to serving as fertile ground for those in the so-called "alt-right" or white nationalist movement. (mediamatters.org)
constitutional right
- Same-sex marriage is likely to be soon recognized as a federal constitutional right. (brookings.edu)
freedom
- Reproductive health therefore implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. (wikipedia.org)
PRESS RELEASE
- Operation Rescue initially signaled that they'd been "red-pilled" -- a term popularized by the "alt-right" to refer to an ideological conversion to "seeing the world as it really is" -- in a January 7 press release , in which the group signal-boosted a series of posts from a far-right community on 8chan. (mediamatters.org)
governments
- The non-binding Programme of Action asserted that governments have a responsibility to meet individuals' reproductive needs, rather than demographic targets. (wikipedia.org)
groups
- Having failed to gain a respected position within mainstream feminism, anti-abortion feminists aligned themselves with other anti-abortion and right to life groups. (wikipedia.org)
- The PSN quickly grew and attracted many new progressive student activist groups motivated to protest against the shift to the right in U.S. politics when Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980. (wikipedia.org)
family
- Exercising your individual conscience and making the best reproductive health decisions for yourself and your family shouldn't put your livelihood at risk. (mercurynews.com)
- It recommended that family planning services be provided in the context of other reproductive health services, including services for healthy and safe childbirth, care for sexually transmitted infections, and post-abortion care. (wikipedia.org)
individuals
- But we cannot enjoy the same rights as other individuals - called men - without the ability to control when and if we bear children, and without the medical care that makes that possible. (sun-sentinel.com)
- Without that control over our own bodies, we are no longer genuine rights-bearing individuals - which surely a party that purports to celebrate individualism as strongly as the Republican Party should understand. (sun-sentinel.com)
organs
- The development of the reproductive system is a part of prenatal development, and concerns the sex organs. (wikipedia.org)
- Because its location, to a large extent, overlaps the urinary system, the development of them can also be described together as the development of the urinary and reproductive organs. (wikipedia.org)
- The reproductive organs are developed from the intermediate mesoderm. (wikipedia.org)
behaviors
- However, reproductive success depends on the environmental conditions since scarlet shiners undergo physiological changes and reproductive traits and behaviors in response to these conditions. (wikipedia.org)
- Reproductive coercion (also called coerced reproduction) is threats or acts of violence against a partner's reproductive health or reproductive decision-making and is a collection of behaviors intended to pressure or coerce a partner into initiating or terminating a pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
- Reproductive pressure behaviors may result in several unintended pregnancies that are then followed by multiple coerced abortions. (wikipedia.org)
roles
- Women assume productive, reproductive, and managing roles in their communities, thus the demand for their time is greater. (wikipedia.org)
- As women often serve productive, reproductive, and managing roles in their communities they are more likely to be time poor than men as their time is spread out over many activities. (wikipedia.org)
- A "cult of masculinity" prevails, and a "reduction of women" has occurred: deprived of all rights, women are kept in concentration camps, their sole value residing in their reproductive roles. (wikipedia.org)
couples
- They did this because they recognized the cost savings associated with the timely diagnosis and treatment for the disease of infertility, which inflicts 1 in 5 couples of reproductive age. (empowher.com)
success
- strategy rather than a strategy to increase reproductive success. (brillonline.com)
Human Right
- The report was released jointly by Human Rights Watch and the Safeguarding Health in Conflict coalition as health ministers met in Geneva for the World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization's decision-making body…" (Cumming-Bruce, 5/20). (kff.org)
basic
- A Guttmacher Institute policy analysis states that forcing a woman to terminate a pregnancy she wants or to continue a pregnancy she does not want violates the basic human right of her reproductive health. (wikipedia.org)
violence
- Reproductive coercion is a form of domestic violence, also known as intimate partner violence, where behavior concerning reproductive health is used to maintain power, control, and domination within a relationship and over a partner through an unwanted pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
rise
- 2 Despite the dramatic rise in births, the reproductive health of Latinas is largely understudied in North Carolina. (ncdcr.gov)
- According to Dr. Chris Johnson , a professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Autism Expert Panel there may be a chance we're seeing a true rise, but right now he doesn't think anybody can answer that question for sure. (blogspot.com)
front
- TPR motifs that are arranged one in front of another create a right-handed helical structure with an amphipathic channel which could possibly accommodate the complementary region of a target protein. (wikipedia.org)