Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
Today, Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers testified before the Congressional Executive Commission on China about the one-child policy. The policy requires Chinese couples to have a birth permit before having a child, with most being allowed only one child. The enforcement of this policy includes birth quotas, invasive medical examinations for women, and […]
Congressional Democrats are blocking a bill to help victims of sex trafficking because it contains a provision that prohibits funding abortions. Abortion advocates say abortion is necessary to help women and girls who are being trafficked. But a look below the surface shows that abortion is likely to harm, not help, victims of trafficking – […]
This past week, three abortion businesses in Louisiana filed suit over a law that would require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their facility. Backers of the new law, which is set to go into effect Sept. 1, say that lack of admitting privileges puts women’s […]
3/31/14 By Paul Stark The international abortion advocacy organization Ipas helped convene a meeting this week calling for governments to “repeal laws that criminalize abortion and remove barriers on women’s and girls’ access to safe abortion services,” making “safe, legal abortion universally available, accessible and affordable for all women and girls.” The conference attendees say abortion […]
10/1/13 If you are interested in population issues, Anne Roback Morse and Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute have posted an easy-to-use primer on the myths of overpopulation: We are contacted all the time by people asking for how they can refute the arguments of those who believe that the world is overpopulated. So […]