Pope Francis and the Great Catholic Divide
Perhaps more than any other pope in modern times, Pope Francis has done much to unify and reinvigorate the Catholic faith, but as he approaches the first anniversary of his ascendancy to the papacy, he...
View ArticleClimate Change: The Least We Can Do
As the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report makes clear, we are long past the point of avoiding climate change. The best we can do now is to avoid the worst effects. The situation is more dire than...
View ArticleRe-Examining the Global Barriers to Reproductive Freedom
Every woman in the world should be able to space or limit her births. At a minimum, that means every woman should have access to the contraceptive method of her choice, whether it’s a female condom,...
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Teen Pregnancy Rate Reaches Historic Low
Happy Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month! The month kicks off with great news from the Guttmacher Institute: the teen pregnancy rate has continued to drop, reaching a historic low in 2010, the most recent...
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Every Two Minutes
This week the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Bank and the UN released a report with the maternal...
View ArticleAs the World Bank Turns
Something exciting, almost revolutionary, is happening at one of the most conservative of the world’s international institutions. The World Bank, which for decades has been criticized has overly...
View ArticleFragile States/Fragile Families
What do Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan all have in common? Plenty. In Washington DC, a city consumed by headline stories, Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace this past...
View ArticleHobby Lobby: The Day After
In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Hobby Lobby case, volumes have been written about the outcome of the case, but one of the best analyses that I have seen was...
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The Supreme Court thinks it is 1964, not 2014
In 1965 the Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that married women could legally use birth control. Yesterday, 49 years later, the Supreme Court ruled that your boss’ religious views could...
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World Population Day: How Are We Doing?
Twenty-five years ago, the United Nations Development Programme declared July 11 to be World Population Day. Much has changed in the past quarter century. Significant progress has been made, but many...
View ArticleContraception: Saving Lives… and the Planet
On Friday, September 26, the world is celebrating World Contraception Day. Okay, ‘celebrating’ may be too strong a word. ‘Observing’ may be more like it. And the number of people actually observing the...
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Child Marriage Undermines Progress on the MDGs
Every year 15 million girls are married before their 18th birthday. Today there are 700 million women alive who were married before their 18th birthday, and 1 in 3 of these women, about 250 million,...
View ArticleMulling the Motherhood Mandate
Of all the important decisions we make in our lives, questions about whether to have a child or not, or even when to have a child, have to be near the top of the list, and while that is true for men,...
View ArticleReproductive Health: The Battle Resumes
With the convening of the new Congress, the fight over reproductive health and rights has been renewed, and members of the new Congress are not wasting any time in drawing the battle lines. Reps. Trent...
View Article20 Week Abortion Ban? Not so Fast
This day in 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court announced their ruling on the landmark case Roe v. Wade legalizing abortion nationwide. While Roe should have been the end of the fight, it was, unfortunately,...
View ArticleMillennials: The Reproductive Health Generation
Given the escalating political assaults on family planning, one might easily have assumed that the American voters were softening in their support of contraception and abortion rights. Not so. A new...
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The War on Women’s Reproductive Rights Rages On
The 2010 midterm elections brought a wave of Republican victories, particularly at the state level, and along with those victories came a renewed attack on women’s reproductive health and rights....
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