Center for Reproductive Rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global, non-profit, legal advocacy organization focused on advancing reproductive and human rights. The Center’s attorneys have expertise in both United States constitutional and international human rights law, and they raise their legal cases before national courts, United Nations committees, and regional human rights bodies to expand access to reproductive health care—including birth control, safe abortion, prenatal and obstetric care, and unbiased information. The Center for Reproductive Rights documents abuses of human rights, works with policymakers, focuses on building legal scholarship and teaching about reproductive health and rights. The Center aims to ensure guaranteed quality reproductive health care and to ensure that women can make decisions about their health without coercion or discrimination. 

The Center for Reproductive Rights focuses on abortion, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights, contraception, assisted reproduction, humanitarian settings, maternal health, and COVID-19 in over 50 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States. In each country, the Center partners with local lawyers and advocates. The Center for Reproductive Rights provides an archive of all of their key publications produced since 1997, and now includes fact sheets and resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Center also provides issue briefs focused on military service members and veterans. It maintains several interactive tools: the World’s Abortion Laws Map; After Roe Fell; Evaluating Priorities, which shows the number of abortion restrictions in each U.S. State. The Center also features a Lawyers Network for legal leaders who are experts in or advocating for reproductive rights, and it connects organizations with global law firms that can provide pro bono legal assistance. To learn more, visit the Center’s media room to read press releases.