Teen Voices
Politics Never Interested Me, Until….
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How could the government have total control over something so personal and intimate?
Commentary
Cancel the Party: Here’s a Killjoy Memo for U.S. Women
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Instead of celebrating progress, we have to ask why we fare so poorly compared to many other countries. From being underpaid to losing abortion access, it’s a depressing list. But let’s not look away.
Health & Science
Patriarchy Is the Only Way to Explain Pregnancy Politics
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We are witnessing dazzling advances in fertility treatments. But why, as we teeter on the brink of uterus transplants, are women catching more flak at pharmacies for just trying to fill a birth control prescription? And why is there not a single law about male fertility?
Arts & Culture
For Catholic Women Like Me, Pope Brings Hope
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Does it really matter Yes, because we are all subject to a medieval theology of women on which Catholic Church leaders, including Pope Francis, base their promotion of public policies that compromise women’s health and lives around the world.
Reproductive Health
Liletta, a Low-Cost IUD, Hailed as Game Changer
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Can this T-shaped device do something about the high rate of unintended pregnancy in the U.S.? That was the intention of the two groups that teamed up to create a more affordable IUD for clinics that serve low-income women.
Reproductive Health
France’s Birth Control Pill Use Plummets Post Scare
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In a country where the pill has long dominated, women are now turning to other options, including less reliable “natural” methods. At the same time, abortion rates may have gone up last year, partly due to the pill controversy. Story reported with Hajer Naili.
Afghanistan
To Do: End Gender Bias; Test’s Control Subjects Die
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A U.N. specialist on population told an international parliamentarians’ conference that the members had a duty to improve the status of women. In India, 254 members of a control group untested for cervical cancer died. The U.S. funded the research.
affordable care act
Religious Birth Control Barriers Block the Best RX
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Getting health insurance through a Catholic organization is one way that some women aren’t getting coverage for contraception, says Carol Roye in this excerpt from “A Woman’s Right to Know.” Attacking birth control access is especially damaging for poor women.
Commentary
Family Planning Argument Takes Path to Prosperity
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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.
Abortion
Birth Control, Abortion Crucial to Reducing Deaths
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Contraception and abortion need to be understood in a public health context. As access comes under heavier attack in this country we can expect higher maternal and infant mortality, more teen anemia and higher risks of child abuse and neglect.