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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Selected Publications
Is there an ‘unmet need’ for family planning? The New Atlantis 49:2016