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2008

August 2008

Pregnancy Pact Frenzy Missed Real Teens' Story

Protesters to hand Catholics condoms as pope visits Australia

Milwaukee Pastor Scorns Culture of War

July 2008

Treading on a taboo

America's abortion scandal

Global over-population is the real issue

Humanity is the greatest challenge

California Court Affirms Right to Gay Marriage

Marriage-Maker's Gender Ruffles Egyptians

Population pressure takes Earth to its limits

Chinese Tradition of Sons Causes Leap in Births

What About the War, Benedict?

Circumcision and HIV AIDS

June 2008

In the Philippines, critics say Catholic policy is to blame for condemning many to poverty

Obliterate Them!

Birthrates Help Keep Filipinos in Poverty

Society, not science, must solve global warming

Pontifical Council on Climate Change and Development

A World of Katrinas

New Thinking To Save the Earth

Chile Birth-Control Case Spurs 'Apostasy' Planning

Men of the Cloth: The Vatican Isn't So Far From Fundamentalist Mormonism

India Heading For 2 Billion

Philippines Congress Wants $1 Billion For Birth Control

The population neutron bomb

Medical groups rap abstinence-only sex education

Howard Zinn, The End of Empire?

May 2008

A Time for Penance, Not Pomp

Health Database Was Set Up to Ignore ‘Abortion’

Court upholds sanctions for pharmacist who didn't provide pills

Witherspoon pitches UN fund to end violence against women

Best and Worst Countries to Be a Woman

April 2008

Irish doctors 'may lose jobs' over ethics

Women's lives worse than ever

Pro-Death: Religious Conservatives Are Responsible for High Abortion Rates

Attorney General Backs Abortion Buffer Zone

Manila women want law on family planning revoked

Study: the Pill Protects Against Cancer

Family Planning and Access to Safe and Legal Abortion are Vital to Safeguard the Environent

Americans Change Faiths at Rising Rate, Report Finds

March 2008

February 2008

Wisconsin Nears Plan B Approval

Abortion isn't a religious issue

AIDS message takes on Pope by breaking c-word taboo

Cardinal's criticism is met with silence by Democrats

Ireland's Population Fastest Growing in EU

A world overwhelmed with hungry little mouths

A Strategy for a National and International Population Policy

January 2008

Affordable Family Planning for College Students

Amnesty chief rebuffs Catholic attack on abortion policy

Redesigning A Condom So Women Will Use It

Birth-Control Foe To Run Office on Family Planning

Druggists criticize pope's appeal

Rapid Population Growth Worries Uganda

Family planning to reduce emissions

Euro-babies go from bust to boom

List of US Soldiers Killed in Iraq Since Start of War

Road to Damascus still a place for conversions

December 2007

U.N. Reports Startling Stats on Maternal Health

U.S. Funding Continues to Stumble for UN Population Programs

UN Message for World Population Day

Fuse on Population Bomb Has Been Relit

Half the World Soon to Be in Cities, U.N. Reports

Overpopulation problem, sadly, self-correcting

European solons pitch population control

New Facts About Abortion -- There Are Just As Many Abortions Where Abortions Are Banned

Pharmacist's duty to patient, not pope

Catholic Pharmacists Defy Pope in New Mexico

November 2007

So-Called Pro-Lifers Should Stop Promoting Abortion

Repeat teen births highest in Texas at 24%

Strange Behavior For Tax-Exempt Churches

Catholic condom ban helping AIDS spread in Latam: U.N.

Mass. Senate OK's expanded limits on abortion protesters

Maine Bishop Urges Birth-Control Ruling Fight

Legal or Not, Abortion Rates Compare

Mozambique archbishop says European condoms come infected with HIV

Induced abortion: estimated rates and trends worldwide

Bishop: No Communion for Giuliani

Roman Catholic bishop upset over conference at Holy Cross

October 2007

Catholic Bishops In CT Will Comply With Plan B Law

If abortion becomes illegal, how should women be punished for having them?

Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Messages

China to crack down on rich flouting one-child rule

NYC teens find access to contraception not so easy, report says

Naked women promote Polish political message

Clinic need not tell parents about emergency contraception

Pope Asked To Step Into Hospital Abortion Row

Memorial Day 2007: Sacrifice, Pain and Grief (James Carroll)

The pill: new evidence shows it helps protect against cancer

Emergency contraception still hard to get year later

World child mortality at 'historic' low level, says Unicef

September 2007

Judge Weighs abortion standard

More than 10,000 Catholics Join Effort to End Iraq War

Courageously Defying The Holy Roman Empire, Amnesty International Stands Tall

Death from childbirth hits highest rate in decades

One in five Irish men fail to use condoms

Amnesty Abortion Stance Bolsters Mexico Activists

Sales Soar for Morning-After Pill

Judgmental Pharmacists Put Peoples Health At Risk

UN Tackles Needless Pregnancy and Childbirth Deaths

Amnesty to defy Catholic church over rape victims' abortion rights

Study: Abortion Pills Don't Bring Risks

NOW readies for new battles

More new moms in U.S. breast-feed, but turn to infant formula too soon, experts say

How Much Jail Time for Women Who Have Abortions?

August 2007

No-sex programmes 'not working'

India’s First Woman President Vows Fight for Women, Unborn Girls

Legal Abortion Comes to Portugal

Planned Parenthood plans to open its largest health facility

It may be great to wait, but celibacy teaching is dropped by US states

What it means to be a Christian after George W. Bush

Politics of Sex

Democrats Attack Bush on Women's Health Issues

Abstinence Education Faces an Uncertain Future

Report finds fewer teens having sex, more using condoms

EDITORIAL: Muzzling dissent may be hazardous to your health

Media Summary July 01-15, 2007

There is no post-abortion syndrome

Angering Church, Brazil Offers Morning-after Contraceptives to Poor

July 2007

Combat Climate Change with Fewer Babies

Cities without limits

New UN estimates predict 2.5 billion increase in world population by 2050

Abstaining From Common Sense

Planned Parenthood Criticizes FOX and CBS Networks for Refusing to Broadcast Condom Ad

British Cardinals Tell Pols Not to Vote for Abortion

Brazilian Dissenter from Pope & Cardinals Speaks Out

U.S. Funding Cuts Undermine Terror War

No one willing to address accelerating growth in world population

Germans Get Incentives for Having Babies

Cash to Indian Women With More Than 12 Babies

New Congress Drains Helium From Pro-Choice Hopes

Cardinal Faults Amnesty International on abortion

Uruguayans Start Online Drive To Legalise Abortion

The Church’s hard line these last 20 years may have led to more abortions, not fewer’

June 2007

May 2007

Court Ruling Catapults Abortion Back Into ’08 Race

Statement of  The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

CEDAW and Fear of Women's Rights

Children, Parents Drive Each Other to Early Graves

After 2 Years, Pope Turns Right

World Bank Fears Link to Opus Dei Policy

Irish court battle over teenager's abortion right

The Earth is Shrinking

Turning point in US as more women choose not to marry

Population growth threatens East Asian coasts

April 2007

March 2007

January 2007

December 2006

November 2006

October 2006

September 2006

August 2006

Family Planning Subtracted From UN's Millenium Goals

Report says global population growth ensured for many decades

Swelling Population Affects Health and Future of Planet

July 2006

June 2006

May 2006

The Mother of Life and the God of Death (John Raines)

Day of Reckoning for Current Occupant of White House

Rumsfeld and the big picture

Vatican will issue document on condom use for those with AIDS

Europe's Baby Bust

Italian Cardinal Looks at Embryo Adoption and Condoms

'Roe v. Wade': The divided states of America

Hawaii Lawmakers Approve Bill To Protect Abortion Rights

Chastity, M.D.; Conservatives teach sex ed to medical students

South Dakota Abortion Ban Foes Petition for a Choice

Embracing Cheap Workers, Ignoring Their Welfare

U.S. Focus on Abstinence Weakens AIDS Fight, Agency Finds

April 2006

Why Don't Men Write About Abortion?

South Dakota Ban Drove Media Out of Hiding

Has the U.S. Media Reached a Tipping Point on Global Warming?

China's One-Child Population Policy Producing Socio-Economic Problems

World Population Prospects: 2004 Revision

2005 Hottest Year on Record

The fallout from one mom's voice

New Abortion Law Highlights Moral Dispute

Anti-abortionists in Britain copy US-style campaign

Taking the Gay Insults Personally

Women silent on abortion on NYT op-ed page

Boosting the anti-gay troops

The battle to ban birth control

After 2 More Deaths, Planned Parenthood Alters Method on Abortion Pill

Poll shows abortion ban unpopular

OP ED: Give the U.N.'s Reins to a Woman

March 2006

Can soap operas save lives?

Documents raise questions about decision on morning-after pill

World Abortion Trend the Opposite of U.S.

In South Dakota, at least the pretense is finally over

Abortion Issue Moves to States

Protestants endorse family planning

Annan Draws Fire Over Gender Equality

Life After Roe

The pill is mightier than the sword

Wal-Mart, in Reversal, to Sell Plan B Pill

Should liberals leave Catholic Church?

The House's Catholic Democrats Detail Role Religion Plays

Plan B Battles Embroil States

Sizing Up the Opposing Armies in the Coming Abortion Battle

S. Dakota OK's Wide Abortion Ban

Abortion Pill Slated for New FDA Review

When teen sex education goes too far

Ban on Most Abortions Advances in South Dakota

Abortion Case to Test New Justices

A Catholic millionaire's dream town draws fire

Conference puts focus on teens and sexuality

Archbishop says Americans are Breaking International Law

U.S. church alliance denounces Iraq war

February 2006

Birth Control Drive-Through Opens in Wisconsin

At Religious Universities, Disputes Over Faith and Freedom

Adoption and doctrine

The Rights Of the Born

Indiana abortion proposal defines life as beginning at conception

Filmmaker Sharpens U.S. Focus on Fistula

U.S. Cuts Funds for Family Planning Overseas, Stirring Opposition

Look where our family planning money went

Britain vs. Bush gag rule

Misunderstanding Muslims: James Carroll

Judge: No credible evidence underage sex always harmful

Abortion opponents going for 'fresh angle'

Kansas' Top Court Limits Abortion Record Search

Britain defies US with funding to boost safe abortion services

Women Sue Wal-Mart Over Contraception

Courts reject ban on partial-birth abortion

Abortion Rights Groups Say Battle Being Lost

Religious Groups Get Chunk of AIDS Money

Kidman Accepts Role As Goodwill Ambassador

United States Ranks 28th on Environment, a New Study Says

Where The Real Abortion Action Is

Justices Send Back Parent-Notification Law

Vatican Newspaper Hits Intelligent Design

Is Roe v. Wade already collapsing?

Alito Leaves Door Open to Reversing 'Roe'

Bishop Calls for Classes on Method of Birth Control

Planned Parenthood Names New President

Overpopulation 'is main threat to planet'

EU challenges Vatican's draft abortion treaty

Short, nasty and brutal -- the life of Russia's disappearing men

January 2006

Religion takes center stage in Italian elections

Monica, We Need You Now

ACLU: Government won't explain silence on emergency contraception

World's Women Make Strides and Suffer Setbacks In 2005

Saudi Women See Changes, and Reasons to Expect More

Suppose this is a papal election not received? (Rosemary Reuther)

A Religious Protest Largely From the Left

Private hospitals exempt on morning-after pill law

Brazilian Singer Blasts Vatican in Condom Dispute

The Basilica of Denial: Cardinal Law is Symbol of Corruption

What about girl victims of priest abuse?

South African bishop opposes Vatican's ban on condoms

Religious issues colour Italian election build-up

Pay women not to have abortions, say Italian MPs

Europeans Reject Abstinence Message in Split with US on AIDS

A question that deserves to be answered

Rising Population Threatens Global Security

Abstinence program foes turn to a little-used law

Maybe the greatest assembly in history -- of hypocrites

Poverty Fight May Be Subverted at U.N. Summit

Medical files often aren’t confidential, even for abortion

Maine schools shun abstinence-only sex ed course

Where's Roberts's heart?

A Step Backwards for Women, Say Activists

Katrina's Truths

Ireland's population to jump to five million by 2021

European population growth comes to a standstill, study finds

Sucker's Bets for the New Century: The U.S. after Katrina

Poland facing population decline, German office says

World Population Growth Slows

"How's the Water?" -- Commencement Address at Kenyon University

Born Again Economics: Putting the money changers back in the temple

Roberts Resisted Women's Rights; 1982-86 Memos Detail Skepticism

AIDS, aid and prostitution; A challenge to America's anti-AIDS policy

Not everyone at World Youth Day is on the same team

Bush Hurts Women When He Nixes Funds for U.N.

OP ED: Unfree Under Islam

Under fire, abortion rights group withdraws anti-Roberts ad

Ad Campaign Says Roberts Backed Violent Protesters

Abortion Still Supported; Despite decades of debate on subject, Pew poll shows majority of Americans endorse it, with restrictions

Women's Groups Try To Rally for Court Fight

'Grandfather boom' as world population heads for nine billion

Emergency Contraception Prevents Fertilization, not Implantation, Studies Show

Santorum: preposterous and wrong

7 Dem Women Want to Know Roberts' Stand on Privacy

Irish Minister of Health Says Pill Should Be Option for Pre-teens

If 'Roe' Were Overturned

Justice Kennedy Is One to Watch on Abortion

All Ears for Tom Cruise, All Eyes on Brad Pitt

Railroad Must Cover Birth Control

Creationists Still Fighting Evolution

Bush's Sex Fantasy