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Is Fear of Population Control Trumping Green Solutions?

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

September 29, 2009 - 6:00am

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Past "population control" efforts often trampled human rights. So talk about condom distribution as causes concern among liberals. Can we overcome history to create new solutions?

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ICPD: Refocusing on Comprehensive Reproductive Health

By Kimberly Whipkey, CHANGE

September 18, 2009 - 7:00am

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All women – whether living with HIV, married, young, transgender, poor, queer – experience their reproductive health in overlapping ways throughout their lives, and reproductive health programs and services should reflect this reality.

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ICPD + 15: Debating Health Care When It’s No Longer “Business as usual”

By Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia

September 4, 2009 - 7:00am

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ICPD+15 is an opportunity to reflect on public health systems as core social institutions in the face of market failures and inadequacies, including corporate ineptitude in meeting the needs of ordinary people.

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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Kristof and Wudunn

Reader diary posted by Jane Roberts, 34 Million Friends of UNFPA

August 28, 2009 - 8:24pm

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Pulitzer Prize winning authors Kristof and Wudunn put it all together in a new book, Half the Sky:Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. .


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Who Is Speaking At the WCF? Catholics for Choice Offers Bios

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

August 12, 2009 - 11:00am

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This week SIECUS is writing a series of live-blogs for RH Reality Check from the World Congress of Families in Amsterdam. Catholics for Choice, also attending the conference, has developed the following set of bios on Catholic participants in the conference program.

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Women Need A Plan B

Reader diary posted by Kelli Conlin, President, NARAL Pro-Choice New York & The National Institute for Reproductive Health

August 6, 2009 - 4:25pm

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Emergency Contraception: more options, easier access.  Now what? More Awareness!


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Parenting with Dignity: Part One in a Series

By Jessica Arons, Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund

August 5, 2009 - 7:00am

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Creating a comprehensive approach to the reproductive health and parenting needs of women is an important policy objective in its own right, regardless of any potential subsequent effect on the abortion rate.

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Denied Contraception, Filipino Women Face Despair

By Melissa Upreti, Center for Reproductive Rights

July 30, 2009 - 7:00am

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Manila's contraception ban has subjected women to unintended pregnancies even when their health is at risk. Many are being driven further into extreme poverty and are unable to feed and care for their children. President Obama can help.

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Accountability and Reproductive Health in Cambodia

By Ramona Vijeyarasa, RH Reality Check, Southeast Asia

July 22, 2009 - 7:00am

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NGO reports indicate that Cambodia, like many other countries, is falling short on its commitments to universal access to reproductive health services.

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New Report: Abortion Providers = American Human Rights Defenders, Now Under Increasing Attack

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

July 22, 2009 - 1:15am

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A new report by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) calls on both the federal and state governments to address the growing threats against and stigmatization and abuse of abortion providers throughout the United States. The report is accompanied by a series of videos including interviews with providers, and an action campaign targeting Congress.

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