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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trump comes to the race with a polarizing history with women and reproductive rights.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2024
  • In a 24-minute court statement, Spears detailed her version of the last 13 years of her life, alleging abuse, forced labor and lack of autonomy over her body and reproductive rights.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
  • Xu made a final appeal in May, hoping the case will become a landmark and expand reproductive rights for single women like her.
    Carina Cheng, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Both sides embark on a battleground blitz, talking reproductive rights, the border, and the economy.
    CBS News, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The amendment would also safeguard other reproductive rights, such as access to in vitro fertilization and birth control.
    Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2024

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