How to Use reproductive rights in a Sentence

reproductive rights

plural noun
  • Wade, about the fight for reproductive rights.
    — Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Wade, about the fight for reproductive rights.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Kennedy has been confirmed, but the fight for reproductive rights is far from over.
    — Katherine Hartley, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • This wasn’t a shock to those of us who have fought for protecting reproductive rights for decades.
    — Ilyse Hogue, TIME, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The song is inspired by the fight to protect reproductive rights.
    — Lexi Carson, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
  • To paraphrase an old proverb, the best time to connect the fights for trans and reproductive rights was decades ago.
    — Colleen Hamilton, Them, 4 Dec. 2024
  • What role will reproductive rights play in the 2026 midterms?
    — Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
  • For the claimant, the outcome of a six-year battle for reproductive rights came as no surprise.
    — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Their efforts to raise the bar failed, paving the way for the reproductive rights measure’s success.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Not just about reproductive rights, but also about passing the anti-hate crimes bill.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 1 Nov. 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
  • And as reproductive rights are demolished and threatened, most of us fear no choices at all.
    — Hazlitt, 5 Mar. 2025
  • That means Ohio will be the only state in the nation voting on reproductive rights this year.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 25 July 2023
  • Harris will be in the state on Thursday for an event on women's reproductive rights.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 21 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her case — along with others like Belén’s — played a crucial role in shaping the country’s laws on reproductive rights.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • At the same time, reproductive rights have seen some political wins since the overturning of Roe.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 28 May 2025
  • 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
  • Hilton framed it as a constitutional issue, not one about reproductive rights.
    — Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026
  • She was reinstated a few months later but advised to keep a low profile — no more speaking to the press over reproductive rights.
    — Anita Pouchard Serra & Natalie Alcoba, The Dial, 13 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • To that end, the book includes advocacy tools as well as penal codes, laws, and rights pertaining to reproductive rights.
    — Victoria Law, Washington Post, 6 May 2026
  • Around the world, women are standing up to protect against threats to the interests of all, from reproductive rights to immigrant rights.
    — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Critics called it a prime example of mass surveillance being weaponized against women’s reproductive rights.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025

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