China

A safe-sex exhibition in China has taken to offbeat methods to promote the use of condoms.

The New York Times examines the rise in abortions in China, of which Chinese officials blame the low-level of sex education.

The Chinese Government has decided to distribute free contraceptives to the migrant population, a group previously denied access to the free condoms distribution system.

According to a report from the All-China Women’s Organization yesterday, officials in China are trying to tackle the country’s overpopulation in a new way: using video games.

Yesterday, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development convened for the 42nd time at UN headquarters here in New York. The Head of the US delegation, Margaret J. Pollack, announced the US’s continuing support of the ICPD’s goals, “most particularly universal access to sexual and reproductive health, and the protection and promotion of reproductive rights.”

Thinking about addressing overpopulation as a critical environmental issue is helpful to the argument for reproductive rights.

Last night the television show Boston Legal attempted to address parental consent laws for abortion. Let me just say that to root a story about abortion on the perspectives of two older men is, well, interesting.

Tragic news of children sickened by poisoned milk in China raises questions not only about its product safety system but about why infants in China are fed formula at all.

The US government has ordered the six African nations to halt the supply of USAID-provided contraceptives and services to the international reproductive health organization Marie Stopes International.