About 222 million women in the developing world do not have access to contraception. Birth control isn’t just good for women, says one advocacy group, it’s key to economic prosperity.
Activists on both sides rushed to Twitter when the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases this spring that are classic conflicts between religious beliefs and women’s right to unbiased health care.
Women continue to choose to get married, despite feminism and our economic freedom, says Debora L. Spar in this excerpt from “Wonder Women: Sex, Power and the Quest for Perfection.” Better health and wealth appear to be two benefits from this union.
Images of pregnant women have become eroticized as they have become more mainstream, says Kelly Oliver in this excerpt from “Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down.” Media attention to pregnant celebrities has also created a new cult of motherhood.
A mother-in-law often dictates family planning decisions for the younger women in her household. Some health reformers are trying to change that dynamic through counseling efforts and discussion groups.
With millions of dollars at stake for Hobby Lobby, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which brought the first challenge to the contraceptive mandate, will represent the Oklahoma City concern before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on May 23.
Attempts to chip away at the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide via state laws is setting the stage for pro- and anti-women’s health states, say Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo in this excerpt from “Crow After Roe.”
Catholic opposition has kept a Philippines birth-control law passed in 2012 from reaching the women in shanties, where the birth rate is booming. Our reporter visits a woman who wanted three children and wound up with eight, aged 2 to 21.
The GOP candidate’s wife seems to think that contraception isn’t an economic issue. That’s because she doesn’t have to worry about how another child could make it harder to pay her bills.
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