unintended pregnancy
A radio drama written and directed by an MFA student at the University of Iowa aims to empower Latina women about sexual health. The program, called “La Noche Te De Sorpresas,” or “The Night Gives You Surprises,” is broadcast in Spanish and is one of two culturally-specific radio shows being launched by the University of Iowa College of Public Health and the Iowa Initiative to Reduce Unintended Pregnancies.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 20, 2009 - 11:35am
Courthouse News reports that "America's Toughest Sheriff" Joe Arpaio has been sued again, on charges of unconstitutionally restricting the rights of inmates to have abortions. The University of Iowa School of Public Health launches a series of radio programs aimed at reducing unintended pregnancies.
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By Susan Cohen, Guttmacher Institute October 20, 2009 - 6:00am
Some anti-choice activists have criticized the findings and policy recommendations of a recently released Guttmacher Institute study on global abortion trends. Susan Cohen responds to these critiques and debunks their misleading arguments.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 14, 2009 - 8:31am
More women and men have access to and are using contraception throughout the world, reports the Guttmacher Institute, contributing to a decrease in the number of unintended pregnancies and, in turn, a decline in the number of abortions, from 45.5 million procedures in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003.
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The National Abortion Federation estimates that as many as 4,000 CPCs operate in the United States, often using deceptive tactics like posing as abortion providers and showing women graphic antiabortion films. While there is growing awareness of how CPCs hinder abortion access, the centers have a broader agenda that is less well known: they seek not only to induce women to "choose life" but to choose adoption, either by offering adoption services themselves, as in Bethany's case, or by referring women to Christian adoption agencies. Far more than other adoption agencies, conservative Christian agencies demonstrate a pattern and history of coercing women to relinquish their children.
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Increasing numbers of Pacific Northwest women experiencing an unintended pregnancy are finding themselves in an economic crisis of their own.
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By Kate Ott, Religious Institute for Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing February 16, 2009 - 8:00am
"Addressing teen pregnancy" does not automatically translate into effective strategies to reduce teen pregnancy. Young women and men need comprehensive sexuality education and contraception.
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The cultural discourse of those who do not recognize women's sexual and reproductive lives as a matter of human rights allows President Obama to disregard our needs.
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It's not about reducing abortion. The advocates for a new common ground correctly note the correlation between poverty and abortion rates. But they fail to mention how poverty first contributes to unintended pregnancies.
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By Esta Soler, Family Violence Prevention Fund October 23, 2008 - 7:00am
There is an important contributor to unintended pregnancy that is rarely mentioned on the campaign trail -- the strong link between unintended pregnancies and dating violence or coercion.
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