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Condom Queues Incite Church Tensions in Philippines

Posted by N4CM News, Top Stories 30 Mar 2012

Source: Bloomberg. Lorna Villar gave birth seven times in 14 years. After her last pregnancy pushed the 34-year-old’s blood pressure to dangerous levels, the Manila mom says contraception became a life or death matter. Villar now lines up in a crowded clinic between an auto repair shop and a kiosk selling sodas to avoid more pregnancies. The intrauterine device she had inserted free by a charity puts her among [...]

Eastern Europe’s Conservative Crackdown on Reproductive Freedom

Posted by N4CM Reproductive health 14 Feb 2012

Source: The Huffington Post. Across Eastern and Central Europe, emboldened right-wing leaders are resurrecting debates around abortion and other reproductive services, even in largely secular nations like Hungary. “There is a very strong pronatalist [anti-choice] current in Central and Eastern Europe and that goes along with nationalist tendencies in many of these countries,” says Johanna Westeson, European regional [...]

Obama Supporters Worried He May Grant Contraception Exemptions to Catholic Hospitals

Posted by N4CM News 29 Nov 2011

Source: ABC News. In August, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that health insurance plans, as of January 1, 2013, will be required to cover contraception, including FDA-approved emergency contraception. “These historic guidelines are based on science and existing literature and will help ensure women get the preventive health benefits they need,” she said.

7 billion reasons to empower women

Posted by N4CM Opinion, Reproductive health 4 Nov 2011

Source: CNN. The world’s population has more than tripled since I was born in 1938. On Monday, our world’s population is expected to hit the milestone of 7 billion people — up from 2.5 billion in 1950 — with almost all of the growth expected to happen in the cities of less developed countries. This means that the problems the world faced when I was a child are even more urgent now for my grandchildren.

Abortion battles spring up nationwide as states test the limits of Roe v. Wade

Posted by N4CM Reproductive health 27 Mar 2011

Source: CBS News. The anti-abortion rights movement last year found itself in a set of circumstances that have all worked to advance their agenda. Most importantly, states across the country elected new, emboldened conservative politicians. Hundreds of anti-abortion rights legislators and a net of 12 new anti-abortion rights governors were elected, according to Americans United for Life.

Family planning helps women … and slows climate change

Posted by N4CM Climate change, Opinion, Population Stress, Reproductive health 5 Jan 2011

Source: The Guardian, 5 January 2011. By Jotham Musinguzi. We’ve long known that giving women the family planning services they want and need would be a boon for the health of families throughout the world. Today, in every country, far too many go without. Short spaces between births can make women more vulnerable to poverty, [...]

Where Have all the Malthusians Gone?

Posted by N4CM Opinion, Population Stress 11 Nov 2010

Source: The New Security Beat, 11 November 2010. To the extent that policymakers take away a sense of urgency to reform retirement institutions and potentially reevaluate military strategy, the recent spate of publications about aging is useful. But policymakers should not be misled into thinking that the population tide has turned and resources for education, [...]

When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts

Posted by N4CM Climate change, Population Stress 8 Nov 2010

Source: Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, November 2010. For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and 60 percent of Ethiopia. Descendants of the oldest tribal societies in the world, they survive thanks to the animals they raise and the crops they [...]

Will birth control solve climate change?

Posted by N4CM Climate change, Population Stress 20 Oct 2010

Source: Scientific American, 11 October 2010. An additional 150 people join the ranks of humanity every minute, a pace that could lead our numbers to reach nine billion by 2050. Changing that peak population number alone could save at least 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere each year by 2050, according to [...]

Between life, birth and death

Posted by N4CM Features, Reproductive health 28 Sep 2010

Up to 500,000 women worldwide die while pregnant or in childbirth – and half of them are in sub-Saharan Africa. But gradually healthcare and survival rates are improving