Archives
of Past Articles
2005
December 2005
"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins
Challenging Our Assumptions on Depopulation
Pope Avoids Condom Issue in AIDS Message
Papal Instruction: Catholic Church Confused Over Sexual Issues
'Church, a Goliath Against Reproductive Health'
Supreme Court to Hear First Abortion Case in 5 Years
Global Gag Rule Expanded to HIV Funding
Violence, discrimination against women is major cause of death
Pope enters Italy pre-electoral abortion debate
When Cleaner Air Is a Biblical Obligation
Row over pill may see pro-life activists in Italy's abortion clinics
Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill
Good news on cancer? Not for everyone
November 2005
South African bishop bucks the Vatican, argues condoms are pro-life in HIV battle
Nominee's Decisions Leave Little Doubt
Abortion does not increase depression risk, study finds
Abortion Rights Facing Multiple Attacks
U.N. Links Poverty, Violence Against Women
Religion = Higher Abortion Rate?
Miers To Face Questions on Abortion Views
Bishops, Where Do We Go From Here?
U.S. Asks Court to Dismiss Abuse Suit That Names Pope
Bush Jihad Against UNFPA Enters Fourth Year
Saving Plan B From the Zealots
Two Groups of Nuns Call for End to Iraq War
Gay Marriage Ban Is Rejected in Massachusetts
October 2005
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
A Step Backwards for Women, Say Activists
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
"How's the Water?" -- Commencement Address at Kenyon University
Born Again Economics: Putting the money changers back in the temple
September 2005
Official Quits on Pill Delay at the F.D.A.
Pill politics raises question on Roberts
Katrina's Real Name is Global Warming
Access to Abortion Pared at State Level
Hawaii Law Facilitates Morning-After Pill
U.S. Again Delays Decision on Sale of Next-Day Pill
Lone Woman on Committee Feels Pull of Further Duty in Roberts Hearings
Feinstein: Roberts' abortion stance key
USAID Sued Over Anti-Prostitution Policy
'Unprotected intercourse' legal argument shocks Catholics
Federal Funds for Abstinence Group Withheld
Family planning as allowed in Islam
Contraceptive coverage wins a round
Reformers Turn Up the Heat at World Youth Day in Germany
August 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.
Under fire, abortion rights group withdraws anti-Roberts ad
Ad Campaign Says Roberts Backed Violent Protesters
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
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
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
Exiting Iraq is the Only Solution (Andrew Greeley)
Sell Art and Keep Parishes Open
Now, Dangers of a Population Implosion
Roman Holiday: Dan Maguire's son meets Then-Cardinal Ratzinger
July 2005
Exiting Iraq is the Only Solution (Andrew Greeley)
US Abortion Wars Rage after Bush Names Supreme Court Pick
House Bill Would Eliminate Contraceptive Supplies to Prevent Obstetric Fistula
Laura Bush's Advocacy of Condoms Doesn't Go Far Enough
Birth control pills helped empower women, changed the world
Concerns over the safety of the birth control patch
Birth control pills helped empower women, changed the world
Foes Keep Planned Parenthood under Steady Attack
Irishwomen To Make Plea on Human Rights
Record 5 Million Visit Family Planning Clinics
Vatican Criticizes Catholics on Communion
Condom Labels at Center of Debate
Lost in the Middle Ground of America’s Abortion War
Now Available: Middle Ground of Plan B
Public Triumphs, Private Rights — one Supreme Court justice could take it away
Hanging By A Thread: What’s At Stake If We Lose The Supreme Court
Misinformation Campaign Continues Against UNFPA
United Church of Christ Backs Gay Marriage
Pediatrician group urges teen access to birth control
Gunning for Stem-Cell Naysayers
High Court to Again Hear Case on Abortion Clinic Protesters
Italian Vote to Ease Fertility Law Fails for Want of Voters
EDITORIAL: UNFPA saves lives; Yet U.S. denies it funds again
As It Eyes Cities, Wal-Mart Has No Plan B
New York Bill Allows Sales of Pill Over Counter
Dr. Mom: A Tokyo Support Group Helps Women Doctors
National Council of Churches urges ‘end the war’ resolution
Non-hormonal Contraceptive For Men Sought
Morning-after Pill's Not Abortion, Scientists Say
Church blocks Italian referendum
June 2005
Surprising Statistics on Abortion
Africa's Suffering Is Bush's Shame
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
Conference brings Christian leaders to weigh global challenges
U.S. Backs Off Stipulation on AIDS Funds
Hospitals ignore rape victim law
PAKISTAN: Debating Islam and Family Planning
Preserving the Global AIDS Fund
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
May 2005
Conference of Islamic Scholars Tackles Population Issue
Pharmacists Dispense Anti-Choice Activism
Iran's Parliament approves abortions when the mother is in danger or the child would be disabled
Abortion and the Age of Reason
Poll Shows Catholic Doctors Don't Always Follow Church Teaching
Women expect little change on core issues in Catholic Church
Birth control is a woman's decision, not her pharmacist's
Pope May Color Debate in U.S. Over 'Life' Issues Like Abortion
The Catholic Church steps backwards
US Accused of Trying to Block Abortion Pills
Changing Minds, One at a Time (Howard Zinn)
Action Alert from Debra Haffner
Matthew Fox Reflects on the Recent Papacy of John Paul II
New CHurch Debate Is Sought on Use of Condoms to Fight AIDS
Questions for an Inauguration (Joan Chittister, OSB)
A smaller population? There are benefits
Is this kind of Christianity Christian?
Saudi Arabia bans forced marriage
Massachusetts Abortion Clinic Law Allowed To Stand
Religion
and Reproductive Health and Rights
Pharmacist rebuked who refused to refill birth control prescription
U.N.: World population to hit 9B in 2050
Moral Values Extolled at University Peace Rally
Arab Human Development Report 2002
Africa Activists Want Catholics to Back Condoms
April 2005
Catholic Teaching on Morals Deeply Contested in Africa
Plan B Access Fight May Stall FDA Nomination
UN Official Hopes New Pope Will Ease Condom Stance
U.N. Still too much a Boys' Club
S. African Catholics Aren't Practicing What Pope Preached
Role of Religion in US Politics under Question
Paying Last Respects, but Hoping for Change
Cardinal Law, Ousted in U.S. Scandal, Is Given a Major Role in Rites
Democrats Block Nomination Over Morning-After Pill
U.S. Pursues Disruptive Anti-Abortion Agenda
Is the Pope Catholic (Bill Keller, New York Times)
Senate Defies Bush on Foreign Family Planning Aid
Sweden Boldly Exposes a Secret Side of Women's Lives
John Paul II's Unswerving Orthodoxy Wasted Chance to Limit HIV Deaths
A Divider, Not a Uniter: the Legacy of Pope John Paul II
Pope's Hard Line on Birth Control Is Demographic Time Bomb for Philippines
No Praise for Pope from AIDS Campaigners
Illinois Pharmacies Ordered to Provide Birth Control
Abortion Trial Resumes in Portugal amid Protests
New Order of Catholic Priests Is Forming to Fight Abortions
Pharmacists Balk at Filling Some Prescriptions Because of Beliefs
What's Going On? (right-to-die, birth control, etc.)
Abortion Foes Get More Vocal as EU Expands
High Court Declines to Review State Emergency Abortion Law
Diverse Faiths Find No Easy Answers in Terri Schiavo Case
Group Decries Abortion Records Searches
N.J. Must Tell Rape Victims of Emergency Birth Control
Head of UN Children's Fund Carol Bellamy retires
A Misguided Anti-Vice Pledge Courtesy of Congress and Church
EU urges action on falling population
March 2005
Abortion's elusive middle ground
Trafficking in Politics: Bush's sex slavery rhetoric masks policy Failures
U.S. Disputes Reproductive Rights at U.N.
International Women's Day Marked with Pleas and Protests across Globe
U.N. Chief Faulted for Bypassing Women for Top Jobs
Women Still Unequal 10 Years After Beijing
Women Still Facing Discriminatory Laws
United States Drops Anti-Abortion Demand at U.N. Equality Forum
More Than Two-Thirds of California Residents Support Physician-Assisted Suicide
Iraq War Lands in the Midst of Vermont's Town Hall Meetings
US Demand Causes Outcry at UN Meeting
U.S. Pushes U.N. on Abortion Declaration
Insecure Insanity: The Crowning of the President
U.N. Says Fertility Rate Declining
Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Birth control for men promising
In
Honor of International Women's Day on March 8
Meet the Challenge - Add Your Voice and Your Dollar
Pope's controversial new book goes on sale
Amnesty: Iraqi Women No Better Off Post-Saddam
With baby, another bundle of Italian joy worth $14,000
Women's Groups Ready for Budget Fight
Teach Our Kids Sex Reality; Abstinence-Only Programs Fail and Deceive Our Kids
NJ, NY Officials Say Rape Victims Need Emergency Contraception Option
February 2005
The 'tsunami' victims that we don't count
Rev. Debra Haffner publishes manual on sex offenders and faith-based communities
Sex and the Holy City: a BBC documentary
Book Details How Depopulation of the World Could Change Our Future
$2.5 Trillion Budget Plan Cuts Many Programs; Domestic Spending Falls; Defense, Security Rise
Bill requires parental consent for teen birth control
Investing in Slowing Population
The Graying of the Global Population
Military Gobbles Funds Earmarked for Social Development
Women Still Treated Less for Heart Disease
Condom Ban Divides Catholic Clergy as Health Concerns Grow
Departing
Head of Planned Parenthood Faults Kerry for Handling of Abortion During Campaign
Cardinal Says Condoms Could Help to Stop AIDS
Abstinence programs: lessons in futility?
Europe Population: NPR Morning Edition
Bill Moyers On Receiving Harvard Medical School's Global Environment Citizen Award
COMMENTARY: Let's Inaugurate Saner, Safer World for Women
Poverty, War, HIV Affect over 1 Billion Children, UNICEF Says
EDITORIAL: Abortion anxiety mounts in U.S.
Way seen to male birth-control pill
FDA's Decision on Morning-After Pill Is Delayed
Women
Sue FDA For Right To Buy Emergency Pill
Irish Paper Tells Church How to Solve the Condom Conundrum
Senator
Clinton Seeking Shared Ground over Abortions
Outcry over Creation of New Smallpox Virus
Church plans to bury fetal remains from abortions collected without abortion clinic's knowledge
Pope Rejects Condoms As a Counter to AIDS; Church Doctrine on Abstinence Affirmed
Editorial:
Keep UNICEF Healthy; Veneman Needs to Grasp Its Full Mission
Tsunami
Relief May Mean New Abortion Fight in Congress
January 2005
Not
In Our Name Statement of Conscience
Spanish
church does U-turn on condom remark
Religious Institute Releases Open Letter on Abortion
Demographic 'Bomb' May Only Go 'Pop!'
A Forceful Voice for the Children of the Tsunami
Sen. Clinton Chides Bush on Women's Health Policy
A new disaster in the works for tsunami victims
Egyptian Women See Divorce as Religious Right
Gulf Forum Urges Governments to End Violence against Women
Condom Testing Reveals Best Brands
No sex is safe sex for teens in America
More Women Opting Against Birth Control, Study Finds
Baltimore's teen births decline; Rate remains higher than nation's, state's
Nations Pledge Cash For Quake Victims
Democrats Weigh De-emphasizing Abortion as an Issue
America,
the Indifferent (NY Times editorial)
Two Opponents of Abortion Are Tapped for Senate Judiciary Panel
Vatican Sets Up AIDS Foundation While Cardinals Avoid Debate on Condoms
The world's broken promise to our children
World Religious Leaders Observe Tenth Anniversary of International Year of the Family
John C. Raines: A Proposal To My Fellow Democrats
Nordic family ties don't mean tying the knot
AIDS worst disaster in history, says UN chief
How
Many More Iraqis Must Die for Our Revenge?
Alabama Vote
Opens Old Racial Wounds
In
Islamabad, Marriages made in hell