An entrenched social preference for sons should be addressed by countering social and cultural bias against women, not by eroding their health and rights.
Although the 45th Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development just ended, it is already time to raise our voices in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development that will convene in Brazil in June.
A series of arsons and burglaries in Georgia women's health clinics makes it clear that anti-choice terrorism isn't the result of "lone wolf" actors, but is the natural result of an ideology that has violent force baked into it.
Anti-choicers are now riding a wave of sex selection politics, finding new reasons to limit access to abortion in their quest control women’s autonomy, specifically to curtail reproductive decision-making for women of color. But these policies only make matters worse.