In the face of government inaction, health groups and medical organizations are intensifying their warnings about the harm posed to women and babies by environmental contaminants.
The grieving father of a teenager who died after taking the abortion pill has become a powerful ally of anti-choice activists in the fight to ban the drug. Planned Parenthood says Holly’s death is a tragedy but that medical abortion is safe.
The latest report on maternal mortality in Tibet documents the high maternal death rate is due to inadequate healthcare and sometimes harmful superstitions. The report’s authors plan to join efforts to protect women’s health in the isolated region.
In a desert nation of conservative Bedouin tribes, activists are trying to scrap the time-honored law that gives men light sentences for murdering female relatives for offenses to family honor. The new king opposes these “honor killings.”
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