Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

Rebecca Oas is the Director of Research for the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) in Washington, D.C.

Before joining C-Fam, Rebecca earned her doctorate in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Emory University.  She has written for Human Life International as a Fellow of HLI America and is has served as a Contributing Editor for HLI.

Among her focus areas are global maternal and child health and family planning, and her articles on these topics have appeared in such publications as the New Atlantis, the Hill, and the Christian Journal of Global Health.

Rebecca is a graduate of Michigan State University and currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Preterm birth linked to induced abortion, and not a bit prematurely

It’s as if someone blew the all-clear. A new study found a “strong independent relationship” between a history of abortion and the risk of a subsequent preterm birth.  For the…

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Condoms for viral marketing and other social media awkwardness

At the end of each day at the Women Deliver conference, the final plenary session was followed by a brief “Last Word” presentation.  On Wednesday, the “Last Word” was delivered…

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Late-term abortionist: “Abortion can never be late”

Dr. Talemoh Dah of Soteria-Afrique Rural in Nigeria was speaking at a session at Women Deliver titled, “Service Delivery Innovations and Scale Up to Increase Access to Safe Abortion.”  His…

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“Pushing” contraceptives in Senegal, but what about other medications?

It’s become an increasingly common refrain in conversations at the Women Deliver conference: all we’re hearing about is family planning. Even people who support the effort to make contraceptives universally…

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Why don’t women in the developing world use contraceptives? It’s not lack of access

A pro-abortion group recently announced the theme for its May 28th Call for Action 2013: “Access to Contraceptives is a Human Right.”  In November, the United Nations Population Fund released…

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Ipas promotes abortion acceptance through survey to measure stigma

An international abortion advocacy group recently created a questionnaire as a way measure abortion stigma. However, a look at the series of questions reveals it’s not a neutral tool to…

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American Academy of Pediatrics: Children are better off with married parents

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a statement praising the benefits to children of being raised by parents who are married. “Civil marriage is the legal and social institution…

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UN statisticians have solved the “unmet need” for “demand”

The concept of “unmet need” for contraception was invented in an attempt to induce countries to pledge billions of dollars to send contraceptives to developing countries. Experts have denounced this…

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The story of a statistic: how one activist is exploiting a good cause and bad data to push abortion on an unwilling world

As negotiations intensify over the outcome document of the 57th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), many participants in the two-week event are hearing the same sobering statistic being…

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Slanted media reporting on Commission on the Status of Women

As the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women begins today, two news stories are already disingenuously implying that the  Holy See, the Russian Federation, and Iran…

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