Last week, conservative pundit Glenn Beck invited his forty thousand closest friends to join him in "Restoring Love" at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Among them: Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who brought her softer side to a special women's event at a nearby megachurch.
Weekly global roundup: Namibian High Court says forced sterilization violated women's human rights; Spain is looking at tougher abortion restrictions; the world witnesses China's one-child policy and a gruesome forced abortion; gender equity in New Zealand still not up to snuff.
HIV won’t disappear overnight. Unintended pregnancy won’t magically cease. But by working with and through young people to gradually change Jamaicans’ access to sexual and reproductive health information and services, JFPA is ensuring that the next generation of Jamaicans will be knowledgeable and empowered to demand and the care they deserve.
A state official claims the new paperwork for abortion coverage isn't about redefining medically necessary abortions, just making sure the right entity pays for them.
A judgment by the high court in Namibia in favor of three women who claimed they had been sterilized without their informed consent confirms the principle that in order for consent to be truly “informed,” it must be freely given and clearly understood.
