GlobalPost: Obama’s Global Health Initiative shuns abortion services
The online international news organization GlobalPost has been taking an in-depth look at the Obama Administration’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) as part of its new endeavor, Global Pulse. Managed...
View ArticleWoman denied life-saving abortion at center of storm in El Salvador
To be a poor woman with an unwanted pregnancy in El Salvador is to be at the convergence of misfortune. Abortion has been entirely illegal in El Salvador, without exception, since 1998. Such bans do...
View ArticleA Christian religious extremist on anti-American jihad in Kenya
By Paul Nevin, special to Humanosphere Nakuru, Kenya — Among the secondhand clothing stalls in this large, central Kenyan city, Jonathan O’Toole stands tall and proud behind a ten-foot poster of a...
View ArticleZika: Women told to delay pregnancy, but lack reproductive rights to heed call
In response to the recent outbreak of the Zika virus throughout Latin America, health officials in El Salvador have urged women not to get pregnant until 2018 in an effort to combat an increase in a...
View ArticleZika started a conversation about women’s health we should have already had
The Zika virus is spreading like wildfire across the Americas, and with it, a hard but imperative conversation about women’s health care. The presence of Zika is now confirmed in more than 25...
View ArticleDecades-old U.S. law still limits international women’s reproductive rights
Celebrations for International Women’s Day were marked with some very good news for women’s health. More women than ever are using birth control, a trend that could lead to a cut in projected...
View ArticleNew global abortion data show need for improved contraceptive access
Abortion rates in wealthy countries are steadily falling, but there is not much change in the world’s poorest countries. New figures on the number of abortions between 1990 and 2014 show a major divide...
View ArticleEl Salvador prison releases woman jailed for miscarriage
A Salvadoran court has released Maria Teresa Rivera, a woman jailed for having a miscarriage. The decision to release Rivera, who was jailed in 2012, is a symbol of hope to the many women incarcerated...
View ArticleZika: Soaring demand for ‘abortion pills’ adds to pressure for reproductive...
Demand for abortions in countries affected by Zika has increased dramatically as women seek out ‘abortion pills’ online, according to a new study, adding to the pressure on governments to liberalize...
View ArticleEl Salvador’s Congress considers relaxing controversial abortion law
After months of contention over El Salvador’s abortion law, one of the strictest in the world, lawmakers in the Central American country are considering whether to allow abortion in cases of rape or...
View ArticleAbortion: Clinton invokes women’s rights around the world as she defends choice
The contentious issue of abortion came up during the final U.S. presidential debate on Wednesday. Hillary Clinton affirmed women's right to abortion while Donald Trump said he would appoint judges to...
View ArticleTrump’s male-dominated administration threatens reproductive rights,...
As President-elect Donald Trump announces more members of his male-dominated administration, women’s rights advocates are increasingly concerned about reproductive rights in the U.S. and in developing...
View ArticleWomen’s rights groups sue Texas over ‘unconstitutional’ fetal burial rule
A coalition of women’s rights groups has filed a lawsuit against new abortion restrictions in Texas that would require medical providers to bury fetal and embryonic tissue from miscarriages and abortions.
View ArticleChile: Senators debate abortion measure one vote away from becoming law
Anti-abortion senators in Chile are arguing against a measure that is now one vote away from allowing abortion under certain circumstances.
View ArticleTrump’s gag rule endangers the lives of women around the world
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reinstate and dramatically expand the scope of the Global Gag Rule to include all global health assistance provided by the U.S. government – a move...
View ArticleHow eight countries will replace abortion funding lost due to U.S. restoring...
Less than a month after President Donald Trump reinstated the Global Gag Rule, banning federal funding for international organizations that provide or offer information about abortion, eight countries...
View ArticleGuatemala not the first country to resist the ‘abortion boat’
Guatemala is the latest of a handful of countries to resist Women on Waves, a Dutch nonprofit that provides medical abortions to women in countries where the procedure is banned.
View ArticleWomen gather in D.C. to protest Trump’s Global Gag Rule
Hundreds are gathering today in Washington, D.C., to protest President Donald Trump's Global Gag Rule, which critics say will threaten the health of millions of the world’s most vulnerable women and...
View ArticleLatin American countries consider relaxing harsh anti-abortion laws
Several Latin American countries are considering relaxing their laws on abortion, including El Salvador and Chile, which have some of the world's strictest legislation on the procedure.
View ArticleUS rejects international resolution to fight violence against women
The U.S. has rejected a UN resolution aimed at preventing violence against women because it included language on access to safe abortions. The resolution expressed "outrage at the persistence and...
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