There are many ways to frame the linkages between population and climate change -- and the reproductive health community can make the connection in a way that promotes women's rights and empowerment.

• Taking On Population and Climate Change, C. Vogel
• Talking About Population and Climate Change K. Hardee
  
• Global Warming Brings Population Back to the Agenda, L. Jiang
  
• Climate Change: What Does it Mean for Women?, M.H. Young

Barack Obama's recent statements about late term abortions have caused a storm of debate. Women, advocates and writers alike, share their thoughts below. 

• Where Is Obama's Truth on Late Term Abortion?, A. Newman
• Obama's Comments Ignore Stark Realities, L. Waddington
• Obama and the Acceptable Abortion, J. Filipovic
• The Pain of Late Term Abortion (Audio Podcast), A. Marcotte
• Are Democrats Backpedaling on Abortion Rights?, K. Michelman/F. Kissling
• A Brief History of the 'Health Exception', V. Saporta

When the media covers the rising rate of c-section, it's often ready to lay the blame at the feet of the busy career mom scheduling her delivery between important business deals. While some moms may be requesting surgical birth, research shows that has little to do with the overall increase in c-section rates nationwide.

No other international actor has as much power to do something about rape in war, and as disappointing a record, as the United Nations Security Council. But on June 19, 2008, in the wake of decades of reports of vicious sexual violence in conflicts across the globe, the Security Council declared that it is time to act. Click the pic.

Overwhelmed by the congressional races, the anti-choice ballot initiatives and the candidates breaking party rank on reproductive health issues? Dana Goldstein demystifies Election 2008 for you.

• Is the GOP a Mixed Choice Party?
• The New Anti-Choice Democrats: Can We Work With Them?
• Pro-Choice Candidates Fight for Senate Seats
• 2008 Anti-Choice Ballot Initiative Watch
• RH Reality Check's Election 2008 Page

Feminism and the pro-choice movement have had a positive effect on fatherhood. But our damaged environment and lack of sufficient focus on men's reproductive health may not.

• Half the Man His Father Was - Charlotte Brody & Julia Varshavsky
• Men Can Help Plan Families, Too - Amanda Stukenberg
• Better Fathers: Courtesy of the Sexual Revolution - Cristina Page

Obama has a huge opportunity to win over an unlikely voting bloc: pro-life voters. The facts of the abortion debate reveal surprising truths and they ought to be hammered home by Obama. Click the pic.

One in three women has a hysterectomy before her sixtieth birthday. Is such major surgery medically necessary for all those women? And if not, how did this procedure become commonplace? Click the pic for more.

By framing sexual health and justice debates as battles between purity and perversion, or virtue and vice, traditional media misses the progressive religious voices that speak out for ethics, morality and faith with respect for the dignity and decisions of all families and all individuals.

Join us and Americans for UNFPA for an online forum on global women's health in American politics. Anika Rahman, President of Americans for UNFPA, is following the discussion in the comments section and responding to your ideas on how to prioritize women’s health internationally.