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February 8, 2010

Australia: New party wants population debate

Message in a condom: Man's overpopulation is a danger to animals

Postcard From Yemen

Jordan: Princess Basma highlights progress in reproductive health

EDITORIAL: Sex ed that works fine tuning abstinence message

 

February 5, 2010

Pentagon to stock health facilities with morning-after pill

Europe is not heading for a population collapse

China: Time for families to have two children each

 

February 4, 2010

Iowa: Birth-control study shows benefits of state support

Nepal: Population control: Govt to reduce growth by 2017

Is There Enough Food Out There For Nine Billion People?

 

February 3, 2010

Crowd Gazing

Australia: Issue is profligacy not population

Teaching teens to say “no” to sex

Study: Abstinence program most effective at delaying sex among youths

Mississippi eyes 'abstinence plus' sex education option to reduce teen pregnancy

 

February 2, 2010

Are more couples going childless by choice?

Abstinence-only programs might work, study says

Abstinence-only programs – minus religion – can delay teen sex

Success seen in experimental abstinence program

A Look At U.S. Policy On Family Planning Abroad

Australia: Postpone population growth, says Abbott

Population Growth: the Challenge Australia Cannot Ignore

64 pct Australian population rise expected by 2050

UK: MP urges huge immigration cut to limit population growth

Russia’s latest population growth in danger of long-term decline

Guatemalans, in Brooklyn for Work, Keep Bonds of Home

White House Proposes 9% Increase in Global-Health Funding

Editorial: A Verdict Against Vigilantism

Utah: Sex ed, birth control and STD

 

February 1, 2010

Organization: The Center for Biological Diversity

World's leaders need plan to confront crises

Malaysia: Poor me, poor you, poor them

GUATEMALA: Population Growth Impacts Migration

Australia: Wayne Swan down on growth for its own sake

Australia: Populate and we will perish

Nine billion people by 2050?

The population crash

Family planning in Bangladesh

Our ageing population

White House Aims to Broaden Approach to Global Health

Obama budget aims at solidifying women's support

 

January 29, 2010

New morning after pill 'can work for up to five days'

Utahns split over teaching students about birth control

Wisconsin state Senate approves sex-education bill

 

January 28, 2010

Pregnant and Vulnerable: Meeting the Needs of Women in Haiti

Coerced Reproduction

Why Teen Pregnancies Are on the Rise

US teen pregnancy rise blamed on abstinence programs

Teen pregnancy and abortion

Washington: Pregnancy center bill draws bipartisan crowd

Maryland: Montgomery panel OKs new rules for pregnancy centers

Ireland’s changing views on sex

TIMOR-LESTE: Addressing the baby boom

 

January 27, 2010

Hard labor for Haiti's mothers

After Long Decline, Teenage Pregnancy Rate Rises

Decade of Decline in U.S. Teen Pregnancies Ends

 

January 26, 2010

Rise in teenage pregnancy rate spurs new debate on arresting it

Teen pregnancy, abortion rates rise

Reproductive coercion is a factor in unintended pregnancies

Sabotaging birth control - sinister new face of sexual violence

Swearing Off Sex: Can Bristol Palin Stick by Abstinence Pledge?

Our Vanishing Ultimate Resource

DELIVERING INTO CHAOS: UNFPA RUSHES REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SUPPLIES TO HAITI

Nigeria, Eight Others Benefit From Global Health Initiative

WETZSTEIN: Dire results of 1-child rule

 

January 25, 2010

One child is what women want

India: Plan family and get honoured with awards

Egypt: A bitter pill to swallow

 

January 22, 2010

Utah: Teens rally at Capitol to support sex-ed bill

Children from 13 to be offered free condoms in Coventry

 

January 21, 2010

Is Haiti Overpopulated?

Florida: Teenage pregnancy expert bemoans lack of contraception education

Utah: Planning families

 

January 20, 2010

In Germany, a Tradition Falls, and Women Rise

Immigration 'will fuel greenhouse gas growth'

Russia proposes new measures to boost birthrate

Nigeria: Tackling Taboo Topic of Reproductive Health Among Youths

Editorial: Sex education and abstinence go hand in hand

Russian right-winger suggests polygamy to boost population

 

January 19, 2010

How to tackle immigration

CHINA'S STOLEN BRIDES

A simple family size solution

Utah: Medicaid to pay for birth control?

 

January 15, 2010

Egypt: Population boom

Japan: Population decline worsening

 

January 14, 2010

Study warns aborting girl fetuses will leave China with 24 million more men than women by 2020

Taiwan: Better way needed for declining birth rates

 

January 12, 2010

China: One-child policy condemns 24m bachelors to life without a wife

Vietnam: Reproductive health heads to coast

Elderly to Outnumber Children for First Time in 2045, UN Says

 

January 11, 2010

Remarks on the 15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development

 

January 7, 2010

Development in the 21st Century

South Korea: More Large Families to Receive State Subsidies

Philippines: Population and sense

 

January 6, 2010

Staying power: Older moms aim to live longer

Israel's population at 2010 is 7.5m

Cuba’s population grows for first time in four years

 

January 5, 2010

Virginia: Kaine's budget hits homeless, teen pregnancy prevention

Population control: An ugly solution to climate change

 

January 4, 2010

Sri Lanka, Bangladesh population: dividend of danger?

As use of morning-after pills rises in India, health workers voice concerns

Japanese singles wish for marriage in New Year, government wishes for more babies

 

December 24, 2009 - January 2, 2010

Sex Matters

Abstinence proponents look for aid from new health bill

Change beckons for billionth African

Making it pay to have children

Coalition pushes for population debate

Putin trumpets first Russia population growth since 1995

The "P" Word and Climate Change

 

December 23, 2009

Population Growth and Global Warming

Kenya: There is a strong case for curbing population growth

Bangladesh to introduce family planning policy

Sex education for 20-somethings

 

December 22, 2009

JAPAN: Careers On Hold For Most Women

SOUTH KOREA: Low Birth Rate Blamed on Women

 

December 21, 2009

EDITORIAL People and climate change

Climate change and women

Editorial: End to the Abstinence-Only Fantasy

Population control as a solution to global warming

WETZSTEIN: Youth take risks with birth control

Planetary birth control gone mad

 

December 18, 2009

Population and Climate Change: Complex Connections

 

December 17, 2009

UK Group: Limiting Population Growth Can Solve Climate Change Problem

Population growth, fossil fuels burdening Earth

The Welcome End of Abstinence-Only Sex Education

 

December 16, 2009

The Missing ‘P’ Word in Climate Talks

Japan seeks baby boom to defuse population timebomb

In 2025, India to Pass China in Population, U.S. Estimates

 

December 15, 2009

Can Condoms Fix Climate Change?

Family Planning: The Link to Achieving All Eight MDGs

Africa's population boom traps children in poverty

Pressured to marry, African girl fights for her education

Gaps found in young people's sex knowledge

 

December 14, 2009

US: The population bomb is still ticking

Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom

Rwanda: Population Growth Raises Concerns

London, UK: Teenagers to get pill without prescription

In aging China, a change of course

 

December 11, 2009

Population: In the family way

Copenhagen climate conference: Who will dare mention population growth?

AFGHANISTAN: The tribulations of child-bearing children

Nigeria: Family Planning - Experts Proffer Solutions to Reduce Maternal Deaths

Who's afraid of billions of people?

 

December 10, 2009

People growth counts

Attenborough on climate change

 

December 9, 2009

Jordan must take action to seize demographic opportunity

Global rise in infectious diseases due to population growth, urbanisation

 

December 8, 2009

Copenhagen climate summit issues: population growth

The inconvenient truth? Overpopulation

 

December 7, 2009

So what will the UN's talking heads have to say to Baby B?

 

December 4, 2009

The High Costs of Copenhagen: What Obama's pledge to reduce emissions by 83% would mean in practice

Rwanda:  Population Control Now Part of Schools' Curricula

UN report Links Reproductive Rights and Education with Climate Change

 

December 2, 2009

Utah's latest baby boom dwindles

In Siberia, An Effort To Fight Population Shrinkage

Giving women a choice key to family planning

 

December 1, 2009

China: Experts urge to adjust family norms

 

November 30, 2009

Once taboo, population enters climate debate

GUATEMALA: Sex Education, Family Planning Finally Available

 

November 25, 2009

Climate change: Are women the solution?

 

November 24, 2009

Tanzania: Support is stigmatised and scarce

The ultimate crop rotation

AFRICA: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning

 

November 16-22, 2009

Uganda: Out of the Wild

Merits of abstinence education debated

What's missing in sex education

Bundles of joy becoming bitter pills

Crisis pregnancy centers operate on moral precepts, not science

Sex-ed goes thumbs-first with text services

Catholic employers balk at mandate to cover prescription contraceptives

CUBA: Fewer Storks Visiting Shiny Maternity Clinics

Poor women 'bear climate burden'

UN: Fight climate change with free condoms

Manila warned on population

Women 'bearing brunt' of climate change

Nevada: Personhood amendment would ban pill RU-486

Q&A: Recognise the Benefits of Slowing Population Growth

Finding a way to cut numbers

 

November 14, 2009

Broaching Birth Control With Afghan Mullahs

 

November 13, 2009

Demography in the Balkans: A birth dearth

 

November 12, 2009

Uganda to host family planning conference

Clinton: Family planning a 'positive' choice for society

 

November 10, 2009

Uganda: Bishop attacks govt on population policy

Bangladesh: UN wants more funding for family planning programmes

Texas sex educators take tentative steps beyond abstinence

Without family planning . . .

 

November 9, 2009

Seeking the best in sex education

Australia: Row over sex education

 

November 6, 2009

Massachusetts: Revere keeps school contraception policy

Study: Options are key in sex education curriculum

England: Children under 15 can be withdrawn from sex education

England: Parents lose right over sex education

Australia: Experts warn: populate and perish

 

November 5, 2009

Kenya fertility rate drops

 

November 4, 2009

Iran's clash of cultures: The old guard meets the cellphone crowd

Wisconsin: Republicans block vote on birth control education

Does the 'billionth African' mean boon or burden?

 

November 3, 2009

Uganda:  Family Planning Vital in Reducing Maternal Deaths

CHILE:  Teen Pregnancy, a Problem That Won’t Go Away

Bangladesh: Growing Out of Control

Water and population, 2

Population and water, 1

 

November 2, 2009

Peru's Nazca culture was brought down with its trees

Kenya: Population: We must go back to the basics

Think only 'their' teens get pregnant?

 

November 1, 2009

Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen

 

October 30, 2009

Demography, growth and the environment: Falling fertility

Low fertility: The rich are different

Fertility and living standards: Go forth and multiply a lot less

Ethiopia:  The Dilemma of Population Growth

Philippines: A look back at natural family planning

 

October 29, 2009

GUINEA-BISSAU: Planning families, saving lives

Climate change will devastate Africa, top UK scientist warns

Huge unmet need for contraceptives in Uganda

The Population Effect

 

October 28, 2009

The Future of Abstinence

Climate change is a feminist issue

 

October 25, 2009

Birth Control Bill Has Enemies in Philippines

 

October 23, 2009

Australia: Population growth 'our biggest challenge'

More young people in Shanghai hesitate to have children

 

October 22, 2009

Utah: Lawmakers consider sex-ed changes

Zimbabwe: Commission Needs U.S$20 Billion for Population Projects

 

October 21, 2009

Experts Worry as Population and Hunger Grow

Thought Experiments on Birth and Death

 

October 20, 2009

Birth control seen as 'green'

Nigeria:  PPFN Advocates Population Management For Efficient Health Delivery

Japan: Abortion still key birth control

DEVELOPMENT:  Is It Time to Plan Another U.N. Population Meet?

 

October 19, 2009

Population growth can't be ignored

Going Green Means Having Fewer Kids

Another sign of difficult economic times: People are putting off having babies

 

October 16, 2009

Korea: 'More Incentives Needed for 2nd Child'

 

October 15, 2009

UN: Record 1 billion go hungry

STDs, pregnancy: Kids need clinical, scientific support

Uganda: When lingua, culture stand in family planning's way

 

October 14, 2009

Report: Abortions decline worldwide

 

October 13, 2009

Food production 'must rise 70%'

U.N.: Agriculture Investing Must Increase

UN - ‘All People Benefit’ When Maternal Health Care Is Improved

 

October 9, 2009

Indonesia Family Planning Hampered by Lack of Money, Authority

Teenage pregnancies: Growing pains

Baby Bundle: Japan's Cash Incentive for Parenthood

 

October 8, 2009

Family planning program fades, Indonesia faces population explosion

Hold Steady

 

October 7, 2009

New Jersey: Corzine asks for expanded family planning funds

 

October 6, 2009

Fighting the 'contraceptive mentality'

 

October 5, 2009

To Protect Galápagos, Ecuador Limits a Two-Legged Species

 

October 2, 2009

Australia's population reaches 22 million

 

October 1, 2009

Ghana: Media urged to support advocacy on family planning

 

September 30, 2009

Panel votes to restore abstinence education money

 

September 29, 2009

Ohio: Fedor to introduce bill that includes birth control, sex ed

China's population policy draws wide praise

 

September 28, 2009

The population delusion

Ballot question ratchets up debate over birth control

Texas schools abandon abstinence-only

 

September 24, 2009

How Much Human Activity Can Earth Handle?

Bangladesh: Shortage of contraceptives worry Dhaka

CNN video: Population and the Enviroment

 

September 23, 2009

For Some Women, Recession Means Having Fewer Children

The impact of population growth on tomorrow's world

 

September 22, 2009

Fewer feet, smaller footprint

Population growth driving climate change, poverty

Is population growth a Ponzi scheme?

 

September 21, 2009

Chinese babies stolen by officials for foreign adoption

Call for more babies as China turns to grey

 

September 18, 2009

Australia Population to Now Hit 35 Million by 2049

Contraception vital in climate change fight

Sexual and reproductive health and climate change

POPULATION:  Where’s Family Planning on Climate Change Radar?

CNN video: Population vs. Environment

Saving gorillas by bringing healthcare to local people in Uganda

 

September 17, 2009

Yemen: Twelve-year-old dies in labor

Teen birth rates highest in most religious states

African Condom Shortage Said to Worsen Climate Impact

UN Urges Greater Investment in Maternal, Child Health in Asia-Pacific Region

The Man Who Defused the 'Population Bomb'

 

September 16, 2009

Are Condoms the Ultimate Green Technology?

 

September 15, 2009

Is having a baby not so carbon friendly?

When It Comes to Pollution, Less (Kids) May Be More

Factoring People Into Climate Change

 

September 11, 2009

Obama Unshackles Global AIDS Work

Brazil's soap operas linked to dramatic drop in birth rates

Should Nigerians have fewer babies

Report: Contraception cheapest way to combat climate change

Vast Majority of Youth Deaths Occur in Poorer Countries

 

September 10, 2009

Michigan: House committee OKs bills on birth-control coverage

 

September 9, 2009

Focus on abstinence alone is failing Texas teenagers

PHILIPPINES: Slow progress on family planning

China to continue birth control policy: vice premier

CLIMATE CHANGE: Rising Seas Demand Better Family Planning

Berlin Conference Issues Call to Action

 

September 8, 2009

Texas has restrictive birth control policy for minors

Plan would pay Japanese families to have kids

Progress and Who Wears the Pants

 

September 4, 2009

Sudan: Family Planning In Its Infancy in Southern Region

Is the West's baby bust being busted?

 

September 3, 2009

Nigeria: A Thought for Population, Poverty

DEVELOPMENT: Every Minute, Dying for Having Sex

U.N. Guide for Sex Ed Generates Opposition

Women deserve better access to birth control: UN

 

September 2, 2009

Uganda: Amref family planning initiative bears fruit

Uganda: Over Sh222 Billion Lost to Poor Family Planning

Ireland: Population growth - A growing problem

Zambia: Mansa residents prefer traditional methods of child spacing

 

September 1, 2009

Wayang used to promote family planning program in Java

KENYA: Family planning and HIV services work well together

 

August 31, 2009

Water crisis threatens Yemen's swelling population

Britain: The new baby boom

Kenya: Educate the Public On Sound Family Planning

Kenya: Obama Policy Change Benefits Family Planning

Africa's population: The lesson from Sodom and Gomorrah

 

August 28, 2009

Shanghai: Aging population puts pressure on services

Britain second to France in fertility rate as population keeps growing

Is the recession fuelling the UK's rise in births?

UK: Record rise as population tops 61 million for first time

Debate continues over Utah sex ed changes

Scotland: Morning-after pill 'should be available to girls in school'

Africa's population: The baby bonanza

 

August 25, 2009

Averting a perfect storm of shortages

Tanzania: Population Projected At 70 Million

Senior UN official sees China as important element in world population control, poverty reduction

 

August 24, 2009

Experts warn against having children in quick succession

China's one-child policy gets a second thought

The war for Afghanistan's women

 

August 21, 2009

Nile Delta: 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands'

Abstinence-only goes awry

Rwanda: When Humor Fosters Sex Education

Japan demographic crisis rises up agenda as election nears

Australia: Overseas abortion aid ban revoked

 

August 20, 2009

Abortion Law Backers Vow Oklahoma Appeal

Uganda: Adolescents Need Friendly Family Planning Services

Boston: Parents fight birth control accessibility at Revere High

 

August 19, 2009

UNFPA to provide $2.5m to tackle population issue

Population growth, graft major challenges

 

August 18, 2009

DEVELOPMENT: SOARING POPULATION MAY SWAMP ANTI-POVERTY GOALS

Australia: Labor MP calls for population control

 

August 17, 2009

Making more babies: a stimulus plan

Demography: Babies make a comeback

A link between wealth and breeding: The best of all possible worlds?

 

August 14, 2009

SOMALIA: Humanitarian crisis "at new low"

College must cover birth control

Less sex, more TV idea aired in India

Dropping birth rate has economic consequences

 

August 13, 2009

More women wait to start families

 

August 12, 2009

China's Incinerators Loom as a Global Hazard

ETHIOPIA: Southern region gripped by food shortage

China's one child policy pressurized by aging population

A Billion Teenagers, for Better or Worse

World population projected to reach 7 billion in 2011

 

August 11, 2009

On the Family: Conferees rebut population fears

 

August 10, 2009

Puberty on the Scale of a Planet

In Reversal, Highly Developed Nations See Rise in Fertility

 

August 7, 2009

Managing the health effects of climate change

Birth Rate Is Said to Fall as a Result of Recession

The case against having kids

 

August 6, 2009

Fertility Rise for Richest - Boon or Trouble?

India: Couples paid to delay parenthood

WETZSTEIN: Freedom, hope foster fertility

Tipping point: richest nations see baby boom

Water Scarcity Looms

 

August 5, 2009

American Babies Are Ruining Everything: The truth is more brains will likely mean cleaner energy technologies.

Overpopulation: The elephant in the room

 

August 4, 2009

Canada needs to grow its population

Kenya reports shortage of contraceptives

Uganda's Population Growth Worrying - UN

Illinois: Parental notification law for teen abortions starts

If Nigeria turns a corner, women will be steering

 

August 3, 2009

Family planning may help reduce 'carbon footprint' of people

India pays couples to put off having children

In harder times, couples adopt stricter family planning

The Overpopulation "Myth"

 

July 31, 2009

BANGLADESH: Too young to marry

One-child policy debate reignited in China

Vietnam works to build on success in population control

Legalized abortion cuts maternal mortality rate in Nepal

Italy ok's abortion pill despite church opposition

Italy approves abortion drug

Foreign Investors Snap Up African Farmland

What's the Right Number of Americans?

 

July 30, 2009

Planet is buckling under weight of people

 

July 29, 2009

No More Pro-Choice Protesters on the High Seas

Jordan: Journalists Highlight Dangers of Rapid Population Growth

China: Second child not right population recipe

Tanzania: Why women are integral to progress

 

July 28, 2009

Call to reverse Nicaragua's abortion ban

NICARAGUA: Therapeutic Abortion Ban a "Disgrace" Says Rights Group

Nicaragua's ban on abortion 'compels rape and incest victims to give birth'

Zimbabwe; Taking Stock of Condom Stock-Outs

Chile: Politics and the morning after pill

India's older population to quadruple by 2050

Pinch of Reality Threatens the California Dream

A Brief History of China's One-Child Policy

Indonesia: Population control 'a weapon of the West'

 

July 27, 2009

Choosing to be child-free

Ohio: Fetus' dad must consent to abortion

Immigration and drought

An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up

Population Ups and Downs

How India's family planners lost the plot

 

July 24, 2009

Afghanistan women outraged at proposed family planning law

India: Azad expresses concern over population growth

Common Ground On Abortion: DeLauro Co-Sponsors Bill To Reduce Numbers

DeLauro bill would curb unintended pregnancies

 

July 23, 2009

COLUMN: Our ageing world isn't a catastrophe. It's a triumph

Programs' Religious Ties Raise Concerns

Shanghai spreads second-child message amid concern over aging population

 

July 22, 2009

Canada's birthrate stalls as other countries in baby boom

Nepal: Women spreading family planning measures in rural areas

China expected to see zero population growth by 2030

 

July 21, 2009

Withdrawal Method Finds Ally

 

July 20, 2009

Women in the Killing Fields: Unsafe Abortion in the Developing World

India and Climate Change

 

July 17, 2009

Pregnancy, STDs on the Rise Again Among U.S. Teens

Nigeria: 'Falling Global Family Planning Fundings Threaten Poverty Battle'

Bangladesh: 47,000 children born for shortage of contraceptives

Common ground is preventing unwanted pregnancy

Gen. Cartwright Lecture Oct. 16, 2008

 

July 16, 2009

Can We Talk About Overpopulation?

Obama May Change International Health Funding

 

July 15, 2009

Illinois: Court Upholds Abortion Notification Law

Our exploding population is the gravest threat Britain faces today

Yemen: Too many people... and counting

DEVELOPMENT: India, China Fight Poverty, Population Growth

 

July 14, 2009

The Population Bomb Revisited

Arizona governor approves abortion constraints

Uganda: CONTROL POPULATION GROWTH TO ACHIEVE DEVELOPMENT

Tanzania: Reduce Maternal Deaths

India wants births remote-controlled

 

July 13, 2009

China's one-child policy causing working-age population to shrink

Universal family planning access

Bangladesh: World Population Day observed

Bangladesh: Birth control data paints grim future

90 Billion People, 1 Planet?

 

July 11, 2009, World Population Day

World Population Day 2009 - "Fight Poverty: Educate Girls"

Sustainable population, minus the control

 

July 10, 2009

Uganda likely to lose all forest cover in 50 years

Burden of Billions

GLOBAL: Falling family planning funding threatens poverty fight

US panel backs aid to groups that do abortions

World's Progress on Maternal Health and Family Planning is Insufficient

Q&A: Teens Wrongly Excluded From Family Planning

Statement on the Occasion of World Population Day 2009

 

July 9, 2009

Vietnam: Population work key in national socio-economic strategy: minister

Judges strike broad ban on Wash. Plan B rules

RETHINKING FOOD PRODUCTION FOR A WORLD OF EIGHT BILLION

Pharmacists can't refuse Plan B pill, appeals court says

POPULATION: Poorest Countries to Bear Brunt of Growth

 

July 8, 2009

Could Abortion Coverage Sink Health-Care Reform?

Louisiana: 'Conscience protection' law expanded

Restricting Funding for Abortion Forces 1 in 4 Poor Women to Carry Unwanted Pregnancies to Term

FDA okays Hologic birth control system

A sensible choice on sex education instruction

 

July 7, 2009

'Comprehensive' sex ed sought

Michigan: Help teenagers avoid becoming teen parents

Rwanda: Condom Vending Machines Introduced

Birth control access gets boost in Wisconsin's budget

CHINA: OPPOSITION GROWS TO GOVERNMENT'S ONE-CHILD POLICY

 

July 2, 2009

UN Gathering of Global Experts to Address Current Crisis in Family Planning

UN and World Bank voice concerns about funding for family planning

Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation

 

July 1, 2009

ZAMBIA: PEPFAR prevention approach too narrow

Two is enough or how an Islamic republic made contraceptives a regular part of daily life

Big cities see resurgence in population growth

Uganda: Nutrition Used as Bait to Lure Women into Using Birth Control

 

June 29, 2009

As economy in Silicon Valley slides, birth control booms

 

June 26, 2009

A new (under) class of travellers

State legislators introduce reproductive health disparity bills

Sex ed curriculum gets final OK in NC Legislature

Expert Group Meeting on Population Dynamics and Climate Change

Expert Group meeting on "Reducing Inequities: Ensuring Universal Access to Family Planning"

Farming for 9 Billion People

 

June 25, 2009

Fragile Tanzanian Orphans Get Help After Mothers Die

Arizona: Bill would let pharmacists refuse to give out abortion drugs

FDA approves generic version of Plan B

Arizona: Senate OKs abortion restrictions

EDITORIAL: Better sex ed

PAKISTAN: Softly softly on family planning messages

Senate Democrats Address Immigration

Virginia Abortion Restriction Is Upheld

 

June 24, 2009

China: Baby boom to migrant mothers' gloom

AFGHANISTAN: Few rural women use family planning services

Population and Sustainability: Can We Avoid Limiting the Number of People?

 

June 22, 2009

Pakistan: Only 32 percent couples have adopted birth control methods

Uganda: Promote Contraception in Communities

South Carolina: Couples double up on birth control

 

June 19, 2009

House Subcommittee Approves Increase in International Family Planning Funding

Bristol Palin and other teen moms: New trendsetters?

Utah: Lawmaker pushes for sex ed reform

KENYA: Family Planning Not Only For Women

Editorial: Teenagers and Pregnancy

The Population Taboo

 

June 17, 2009

Humans Intrude on an Indonesian Park

Ghana: Family planning, key to attainment of MDGs

World Bank Urged to Increase Reproductive Health Funding

Planned Parenthood confronts CHIP re contraception

Unintended Births on Rise in Nigeria, says Study

 

June 16, 2009

DEVELOPMENT: Global Campaign to Salvage U.N.'s Health Goals

U.S. Births Hint at Bias for Boys in Some Asians

Mozambique: "There Hasn't Been Adequate Emphasis on Family Planning"

 

June 12, 2009

Arizona GOP advances limits on abortion

YEMEN: Impediments to speedier development

'Zimbabwe Committed to Achieve MDGs On Health'

 

June 10, 2009

Many women dying of unsafe abortions in Timor-Leste new UN-backed report

Obama's Proposed Changes To Abortion Policy

 

June 9, 2009

UK: 'Condom cards' for boys as young as 12 so they can get free access to contraceptives (without parents knowing)

Zambia: Health Ministry on Track to Reduce Deaths From Unsafe Abortions

 

June 8, 2009

North Carolina: Senate likely to act on sex-ed bill

Philippines: Opposition 'presidentiables' push for modern family planning

Antiabortion Efforts Move to the State Level

Common Ground on Abortion (Guest Voice)

 

June 3, 2009

NIGERIA: Childbirth still deadly

Late-term abortions controversial, rare

 

June 2, 2009

Slaying hinders abortion foes' focus on Sotomayor pick

Slaying Raises Fears on Both Sides of Abortion Debate

Worldwide, a Push to Reduce Complications of Pregnancy

The Deadly Toll of Abortion by Amateurs

 

Poll: Spaniards oppose abortion law reform plan

 

June 1, 2009

Kansas Abortion Provider Killed At Church

Ban presents UN population award to Egyptian doctor, Nicaraguan NGO

Chinese kidnappers swoop on girls amid shortage of females

Abortion Provider Shot Dead In Church

A history of violence on the antiabortion fringe

Recent cases of abortion-related violence

EDITORIAL: Preventable Deaths

 

May 2009

Abortion Doctor Slain by Gunman In Kansas Church

Abstinence-only focus loses favor, money

Many women put pregnancy plans on hold in shaky economy

Child marriage in India: a tradition with alarming implications

GOP pushes back on sex-ed changes

The Global Food Crisis: The End of Plenty

DEATH IN BIRTH: Where Life's Start Is a Deadly Risk

Population isn't a problem when women are well served

Teenage pregnancy on the rise in Philippines

Survey delves into high birth rate for young Latinas

House OKs bill that allows refusal of health care

Teens urge teaching sex ed

Planned Parenthood supporters seek continued funds

Women's clinics see rise in calls and visits

Room in the crib: Baby population growth slows

Taking birth out of budget

Disaster Hot Spots on a Crowding Planet

2 Studies Tie Disaster Risk To Urban Population Surge

UN: Growth of slums boosting natural disaster risk

COLUMN: This Mom Didn't Have to Die

EDITORIAL: Teens need more options

HEALTH-KENYA : Contraceptives: Stock-Outs Threaten Family Planning

Spain moves to liberalise abortion law

No Way, Baby

Mexican Data Show Migration to U.S. in Decline

Crisis bad news for Russia's shrinking population

Resolving the coming demographic disaster

Health workers' beliefs bill advances

Spain to dispense morning-after pill in pharmacies

U.S. Increases Funding for Kenya's Family Planning and Reproductive Health Activities

The World in 2050: A Scientific Investigation of the Impact of Global Population Changes on a Divided Planet

Budget Widens Teen-Pregnancy-Prevention Efforts

Second chance for Plan B and FDA

NYC Teens Chide Palin's Abstinence Call

Column: Bring on the baby boom

Pakistan: Ministry goes for art activities to check population growth

Action delayed on "conscience in health care" bill

Male 'contraceptive jab' closer

Will More Food Simply Boost Population?

When the Cellphone Teaches Sex Education

 

April 2009

Mo. bill would let pharmacies refuse `Plan B' sale

Sex education: Why India should go all the way

Rwanda: Family Planning Crusade Taken to the Villages

Kenya: Ministry to buy 100m condoms as use rises

Editorial: The politics of Plan B

Contraception, a life-saving investment for the Philippines

US targets population growth, urges women's power

FDA Extends Access to Morning After Pill to 17-Year-Olds

Clinton defends abortion right worldwide

Ex-AID Chiefs Call for More Family Planning Aid

World Population on Diane Rehm Show

Worst Environmental Problem? Overpopulation, Experts Say

PHILIPPINES: Illegal abortions - the risks and the misery

Contraception, a life-saving investment for the Philippines

Editorial: Improve access to family planning

Pharmacists should stick to their distributing duties

Earth in the balance

PERU: Water Isn't for Everyone

Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight

Study Finds Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa

Saudis 'to regulate' child brides

Afghan women protesting marriage law are pelted with rocks

EDITORIAL: Abstinence-only sex ed a failure

Sex, Power, Women And 'The Future Of the World'

In Quiverfull Movement, Birth Control Is Shunned

Ulema's help sought in controlling population growth

EDITORIAL: For abstinence-plus education

EDITORIAL: Get REAL about sex ed

Religion and Poverty Force Girls into Early Marriages

U.N. Triples Allotment for Population

G8 warns of hunger threat to stability

Pregnant (Again) and Poor

Letter to Rep. Nita Lowey, requesting additional funding for international family planning

Global Financial Crisis Threatens Family Planning

 

March 2009

Billion people face famine by mid-century, says top US scientist

Teenage Birthrate Increases For Second Consecutive Year

Victories in FY 2009 Omnibus appropriations bill

 

February 2009

Attempt to Restore Global Gag Rule Rejected

 

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