The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg marks the passing of a legal giant who devoted her life to advancing the liberty and equality of women, first as a litigator and later as an appellate judge and then a Supreme Court Justice.
Her clear, unwavering conviction that women must be treated as equal citizens under the law changed the legal status of half of the nation.
As an attorney, she was a trailblazer and won major victories before the Supreme Court, outlawing sex discrimination in the 1970s.
Justice Ginsburg was a steadfast defender of reproductive rights, believing that preserving reproductive autonomy was essential to securing gender equality.
Justice Ginsburg understood that the ability to control one’s fertility implicates “a woman’s autonomy to determine her life’s course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship.”
The Center for Reproductive Rights extends its condolences to the Justice’s family and mourns this extraordinary loss for the Court and the country.
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