Darcy Burner Wants the Stigma Around Abortion to Disappear

Live from Rio+20, Day Four: “Plenary Floor, Demographic Dividend and the Youth Bulge”

While the last hours of negotiations unfold, we begin to look forward to future demographic trends and how to turn them into dividends rather losses.

The Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Weighs Mifepristone Ban With SCOTUS Waiting In The Wings

Earlier this month the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on the constituitonality of the state of Ohio's 2004 mifepristone ban in a case that could present a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Legal standards are increasingly replacing medicinal standards as the guide for what constitutes acceptable medical care, and conservative justices either don’t understand that or they don’t care.

On Contraceptive Coverage, the Government Is Right, the Bishops Are Wrong, and This Is Why

The Obama Administration is right to require insurance companies to cover contraception for public employees. The bishops are wrong to seek to use the government to limit the decision-making power of American women.  And they are surely wrong to call what they are trying to do freedom.

Effective Use of Birth Control Leads to Big Drop in Unintended Pregnancy Rate Among 20-Somethings

The Obama administration has powerful new statistics in its corner: the National Center for Health Statistics released a report on Wednesday finding that both pregnancy and abortion rates have dropped for women in their 20s since 1990. An author of the study attributes both these trends to effective use of birth control methods.

The 2012 Global Family Planning Summit: Will Issues Be Adequately Addressed?

In mid-July, world leaders will gather in London to discuss a real and urgent need: increased funding for family planning. The summit documents link the dearth of contraceptives and health services to poverty. This vision is not so much wrong as it is incomplete.

NOW Protests Virginia Ultrasound Bill With Tubes of Lube

The Charlottesville branch of the group protested the bill's requirement with nearly 1000 tubes of lube.

Ohio Proposes “Sex-Selective Abortion Ban”

The state proposes adding yet another abortion restriction to its books.