How to Use reproductive rights in a Sentence

reproductive rights

plural noun
  • And, as was the case in 2016, both Trump and reproductive rights are on the ballot.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Their efforts to raise the bar failed, paving the way for the reproductive rights measure’s success.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The song is inspired by the fight to protect reproductive rights.
    Lexi Carson, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
  • In the forty-nine years between those two dates, the reproductive rights of birthing people were thought to be safe and secure.
    Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
  • For the claimant, the outcome of a six-year battle for reproductive rights came as no surprise.
    Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
  • That means Ohio will be the only state in the nation voting on reproductive rights this year.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 25 July 2023
  • During the call, the campaign sought to frame Vance as a threat to women's reproductive rights and a friend to billionaires.
    Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
  • This season, the focus was women’s agency, reproductive rights, the state of journalism and the state of the truth.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Harris will be in the state on Thursday for an event on women's reproductive rights.
    Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The group is a part of an emerging political force: doctors on the front lines of the reproductive rights debate.
    Cassandra Jaramillo, ProPublica, 31 July 2023
  • And there were so many inches and issues dedicated to the fight for reproductive rights and the passing of Roe v Wade.
    Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2023
  • But more than a year later, the rush of giving has slowed, just as the need for funding of reproductive rights groups is rising, activists say.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Not just about reproductive rights, but also about passing the anti-hate crimes bill.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • This is true even if French Gates were to put all her capital behind the issue of reproductive rights in the country, said McCarthy.
    Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 11 June 2024
  • But each candidate’s track record provides a glimpse of what drug costs, health care and reproductive rights could look like over the next several years.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Something your party has been homing in on on the campaign trail is voting rights and reproductive rights.
    Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In speaking to Call Her Daddy, Harris was able to center one of her strongest points: reproductive rights.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Or, how a moribund act of legislation continues to shape the fight for reproductive rights in the United States.
    JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • The loss of reproductive rights and another Trump election.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 May 2024
  • Rainbow flags were in abundance, as was Kelly green, the color of global feminism and reproductive rights around the world.
    Alex Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • One of the most important issues to me in recent years—and even recent weeks, or days—is protecting reproductive rights.
    Stef Mitchell, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2024
  • In contrast, 14 of the richest 17 states have protection for reproductive rights.
    Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The August measure failed, and proponents of reproductive rights are now focused on the fall campaign, known as Issue 1.
    Henry J. Gomez, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Though the issue has become a legal minefield, California Democrats who have vowed to make the state a reproductive rights haven aren’t giving up.
    Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • Julie Thyssen, a 52-year-old software analyst, dumped all of hers into reproductive rights.
    Danielle Paquette, Sabrina Rodriguez and Carolyn Van Houten, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Florida’s overreach on reproductive rights may indeed put it in play this cycle, but the Sunshine State remains Trump’s to lose.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 6 May 2024
  • But the group and other advocates are sounding the alarm on reproductive rights in 2024 and warning that ballot measures are not an end-all solution.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
  • Women in the crowd recalled their own abortions, or lifelong battles for reproductive rights.
    Angela Charlton and Jade Le Deley, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Min, a law professor, championed issues of reproductive rights, gun violence and climate action, polling well in areas like Irvine that have younger populations.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Now, amid a heated presidential election that resulted in a win for Donald Trump, a handful of states have voted to enshrine reproductive rights into their state constitutions.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2024

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