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November 2009

Abortion Debate Could Make or Break Healthcare Reform; Catholics hold a lot of power in the healthcare debate

Middle East peace effort's missing key: female negotiators

October 2009

American scholar praises China's Population Policy

Administration Pushes Women's Issues to Fore

The Christian adoption racket

Berlin Conference Issues Call to Action

The Women's Campaign

Was an Anti-Abortion Bishop Too Vocal for the Vatican?

Cherie Blair's plea on birth control

Why hasn't RU-486 changed the game?

Clinton Puts Spotlight On Women's Issues; Elevating Rights Is a Focus of Secretary

Government accuses Catholic college of discrimination in health care plan

September 2009

Christian Leaders Mum On Torture

Women wait to start families; In USA, teen births lower average age of first births

Muslim women face 'crisis' over violence, inequality: UN

Obama Abortion Backtrack Shows He's All Rhetoric, No Fight

Health Bill Might Direct Tax Money to Abortion

How A Late-Term Abortion Saved My Life

August 2009

Can A New Bill End Decades of Post-Roe?

Some Docs Resist Repeal Of Bush-Era Abortion Regs

The Politics of Hypocrisy

Israeli Icon Praises Obama Cairo Speech

Israeli Settlements: Fictions On The Ground

July 2009

Dear AMA: I quit!

How To Talk About Abortion

A Very American Murder

Murder is Murder & Abortion Is Not

How Do Countries Rank on the Most Peaceful List?

Irish Church Abuse Shocks Civilized World

Catholic Support for President Obama

International Abortion Underground in Ireland

Spain Moves to Liberalize Abortion

June 2009

Abortion Issue Looms Over Supreme Court Choice

Catholic Academic Ayatollah Shows True Colors

Abortions and Unmarriageable Men In China

May 2009

Meltdown's impact extends to abortion, birth control

Obama weighs patient rights vs. doctor's conscience

Pope Angers Africa With Anti-Condom Message

Vatican pays lip service to women in Women's History Month

Catholic Extremists Swiftboat Sebelius

Progress On Family Planning

White House Effort To Aid Women and Girls

Brazil Church Excommunicates Mom, Doctors After Raped 9-Year-Old Has Abortion

April 2009

Sex, abstinence, and the adolescent brain

Newspaper Editorials on Comprehensive Sex Education and Abstinence-Only Education

An Open Letter to Religious Leaders on Adolescent Sexuality

UN Urges Freedoms for Arab Women

UN Population Fund Spurned By Bush

Mary Hunt Faults Papal Press Coverage

Bishops were warned of abusive priests in 1950

Buddhist scholar David Loy tells how the Buddhist tradition offers a fresh perspective on consumerism and ecology.

Stem Cell Action News

Bush-era 'conscience' rule gets another look

In Quest for Equal Rights, Muslim Women’s Meeting Turns to Islam’s Tenets

U.S. Must Take Leadership to Make Mother's Day Every Day

Demography is Not Destiny

Population Growth and the Environment

Overpopulation Issue Overlooked by Presidential Candidates

March 2009

Spain set to loosen abortion law

The Catholic Crusade Against a Mythical Abortion Bill

US abortion debate altered by Obama presidency

A Post-Election Look at Religious Voters in the 2008 Election
(The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life)

Bone Health vs. Birth Control

U.S. biologist part of panel to help Vatican bridge gap between science, religion

Progressive Faith Groups Now Trying to Shift Debate

Obama Rescinds Global Gag Rule

Abortion Rights Go Global

February 2009

Single-Payer Health Care Would Stimulate Economy

UNICEF Uncovers State of Maternal Mortality

The Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Now

No Choice for Immigrants; Catholic Bishops and HHS trample reproductive rights of teens in federal custody

Unconscionable President Bush fires off a final insult to women on his way out the door

Women's Caucus Puts Health at Top of Its '09 List

January 2009

New federal rule risks Plan B law

Bush-Era Abortion Rules Face Reversal

Republican Captivity of the Catholic Church

Vatican Under Fire for Opposing UN Declaration on Sexual Rights

Catholic officials, organizations launch campaign for climate change

Abortion Not Seen Linked With Depression

7 Things Obama's Win Could Mean for Women's Health

Catholics in the 2008 Election

An Interfaith Call to Action on Reproductive Health

France Strikes Down Court Ruling on Virginity

California Votes Against Gay Marriage

Decisions Made in the Shadows

December 2008

Pope reaffirms Church opposition to contraception

Catholic Voters No Longer Beholden to Bishops and Abortion by Mary Hunt

Can This Be Pro-Life?

Supreme Court declines to hear four cases dealing with abortion

Major Shift in Abortion Stats

November 2008

Catholic Democrats Answer Questions on Abortion

Catholic bishops' futile election strategy

Let's Celebrate!

If Roe Goes...

Blocking Care for Women

McCain Would Block Women's Access to Reproductive Health Programs

Ramos of Philippines Knocks Population Program

October 2008

Abortion Issue Again Dividing Catholic Votes

McCain's War On Women

Peace activist Ouyporn Khuankaew tells why she's embraced Buddhist spirituality in her work to help victims of gender-based violence

McCain and Palin Push Abstinence-Only Education

Irish welcome US report on lack of post-abortion trauma

Sex and the Modern Catholic

McCain and Obama on Abortion

Judge withdraws from Irish abortion hearing; State ban faces challenge in EU court of human rights

September 2008

August 2008

Overpopulation could be people, planet problem

U.S. Fertility Rate Hits 35-Year High, Stabilizing Population

British pill site bars Irish residents

Community Supports Banished Nun

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

September 2005

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

Irish Women's Poverty Gets U.N. Audience

Only in America, Abortion Wars Sour Supreme Court Battle

Iraqi Women May Lose Basic Rights Under New Constitution

Abortion? Nah. Seek Roberts' privacy stance

Prostitution Puts U.S. and Brazil at Odds on AIDS Policy

Roberts' Abortion Stance of Interest

Maria Jose Rosado is One in 1000

Surprising Statistics on Abortion

Africa's Suffering Is Bush's Shame

Weathering the embryo debate

Pro-Voice Hotline Goes Nationwide

Broken Promises Leave Three Million Children to Die in Africa

Refusal of Walgreen's Pharmacy to Fill Prescription Leads to Hearing

After 40 Years, Tiny Pill Still Leads Big Debate

The fight that won us the right to birth control

Pope's Invitation to Live 8 Concert Stirs Protest

Gains Made to Contain AIDS, but Its Spread Goes On, U.N. Says

Why Did Vatican Officials Sack Jesuit Editor? Because They Could

Catholic Devotion, And Doubts

Conference brings Christian leaders to weigh global challenges

The Pope and AIDS

U.S. Backs Off Stipulation on AIDS Funds

Hospitals ignore rape victim law

PAKISTAN: Debating Islam and Family Planning

Preserving the Global AIDS Fund

The Unwinnable War

U.N Says World's Population Is Aging Rapidly

Incredible Shrinking US Family

Arab Human Development Report 2003

China's dangerous sexual ignorance

Most Catholics say church should support birth control

High Court to Hear Abortion Case

Wisconsin's abortion rate seen as lowest ever recorded

Women Take Brunt of Human Rights Abuse: Amnesty International