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Donors Shift Focus from Latin American Women

Karim Velasco on July 29, 2008 - 8:00am

Since the nineties, international donor aid has shifted priority away from family planning programs in Latin America. Now women's advocacy groups are trying to bring attention back to their region.

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Feminist Majority Foundation Honors Women's Rights Leaders

Marcy Bloom on May 28, 2008 - 8:00am

The Feminist Majority Foundation's Global Women's Rights Awardees are an awe-inspiring group of women's rights pioneers.

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A Better Health Agenda for the Americas

Alexander Sanger on May 22, 2008 - 8:00am

The new "Health Agenda for the Americas" is more significant for what it omits: sexuality education, safe abortion access, emergency contraception, and measures to combat domestic violence, than for what it addresses.

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1 Gaining Ground on Sex Ed: Five Years of SIECUS State Profiles

By Joseph DiNorcia Jr on Aug 21, 2008 - 8:00am | 1 comment

Five years ago, federal funding for abstinence-only programs had ballooned and only California was refusing Title V abstinence-only funds. But the present portrait -- flat funding and 25 states refusing funds -- is very different.

Good Girls and Hot Messes: Abortion Doesn't Hurt Women

By Amanda Marcotte on Aug 21, 2008 - 8:00am | 11 comments

The American Psychological Association report finding no increased risk of mental health problems post-abortion should put the fiction that women can't be trusted to make healthy decisions for themselves to rest.

Abortion Denial in India Highlights Limitations in Law

By Deepali Gaur Singh on Aug 21, 2008 - 8:00am | 1 comment

A woman carrying a fetus with high chance of deformation was denied an abortion in India. The country's response highlights the complexity of writing abortion law in a country plagued by sex-selective abortions.

2 State Trends: Ballot Initiatives Take Center Stage

By Rachel Gold and Elizabeth Nash on Aug 20, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

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This year, the most significant developments in state-level reproductive health law lie ahead, in the form of ballot initiatives that will come before voters in three states in November.

Is Lithuania about to Adopt an Abortion Ban?

By Anna Wilkowska-Landowska on Aug 20, 2008 - 8:00am | 5 comments

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If the Lithuanian Parliament adopts more restrictive abortion regulations currently under debate, Lithuania would join Malta, Ireland and Poland as a European country in which access to abortion is significantly limited.

If Candidates Support Human Rights, They Should Pledge to Fund UNFPA

By Anika Rahman on Aug 20, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

Neither Presidential candidate has yet pledged to restore funding to UNFPA. Both should -- because when women are healthy, more economically stable and better able to participate in society, society evolves to benefit all of us.

3 Ballot Initiatives Represent Multi-Pronged Attack on Choice

By Kay Steiger on Aug 19, 2008 - 8:00am | 10 comments

Voters in Colorado, South Dakota and California will have the opportunity to restrict or protect women's reproductive rights this November. What effect would each of these initiatives have, and who's behind them?

Behind the Spectacle: Women's Human Rights in China

By Marcy Bloom on Aug 19, 2008 - 8:00am | 2 comments

Behind the Olympic spectacle, what is the reality in China for women, their health, reproductive rights, and human rights?

Provider Ignorance, Bias Turn Lesbian Patients Off Health Care

By Pamela Merritt on Aug 19, 2008 - 8:00am | 0 comments

The lesbian community faces unique challenges when accessing health care, from widespread provider misconception about STI risks for women who partner with women to doctors who tailor their medical advice to stereotypes they have of lesbians' lives and needs.

4 Don't Assume Candidates Support Your Access to Contraception

By Cristina Page on Aug 18, 2008 - 8:00am | 4 comments

Access to contraception is the only proven way to reduce unwanted pregnancy rates, so it's no wonder that Americans overwhelmingly support contraception. Yet few know that more and more candidates vying for their vote don't.

Iowa Governor Opposes Plan to Define Birth Control as Abortion

By Lynda Waddington on Aug 18, 2008 - 8:00am | 1 comment

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver last week voiced his displeasure with President George W. Bush’s proposed rule change that would redefine birth control as abortion.

Colombia Confronts Female Genital Mutilation

By Angela Castellanos on Aug 18, 2008 - 8:00am | 5 comments

Until 2007, Colombians believed that female genital mutilation was a practice unique to some African countries. But last year we learned that it has long been practiced by one of Colombia's aboriginal groups.

5 Abortion at Saddleback Forum: If Life Begins at Conception, What About Contraception?

By Scott Swenson on Aug 17, 2008 - 1:13am | 2 comments

The choice at the Saddleback Forum was between a clearly pro-life and a clearly pro-choice candidate for President. At the heart of the discussion was a question of life starting at conception. What does that tell us about how the candidates view contraception?

In Jamaica HIV Affects More than Just Health

By Danielle Toppin on Aug 16, 2008 - 9:29am | 0 comments

In a cultural climate with too many examples of stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV, a proposed plan in Jamaica to protect the right of HIV-positive workers could symbolize a major step in the way the country treats this key issue.

India's Red Ribbon Express Connects Citizens to HIV Information

By Deepali Gaur Singh on Aug 16, 2008 - 9:10am | 2 comments

A colorful new train will travel throughout India to bring HIV information -- in accessible, multimedia format -- to Indians countrywide.

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Roundup: Far Right's 'Born Alive' Infanticide Smear Proven False

Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check
Aug 21 2008 - 12:45pm | 5 comments
Far right's shameless attempt to smear Obama as 'infanticidal' entirely debunked; McCain flips on more woman-friendly 2000 abortion position; Bush's anti-contraception proposal would blunt state contraception access laws; Doctor addresses the poor state of reproductive health and rights in Yemen.
Jill Stanek Admits Mistake to Chicago Tribune on Obama's Abortion Record

Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check
Aug 21 2008 - 11:08am | 19 comments
Jill Stanek admits to the Chicago Tribune she was mistaken about Obama's record on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
NYT's Bob Herbert Says Pro-Choice is THE Issue on Countdown

Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check
Aug 20 2008 - 10:45pm | 5 comments
This is significant, and certainly underscores why more Americans are turning toward pro-choice values as they see just how far outside the mainstream social conservatives really are.

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