International Herald Tribune - Letter to the Editor
Chile's highest court recently ruled to prohibit the distribution of emergency contraception (EC) in public health clinics in all circumstances, including to women who have been victims of rape. This decision drastically threatens efforts to ensure the rights and well being of Chilean women. Over...
The debate over abortion is resurgent in largely Roman Catholic Latin America. Some of the most religious jurisdictions in the region are loosening restrictions on the procedure while other countries, such as Nicaragua, are firmly clamping down. Jill Replogle reviews the situation.
Alexander Sanger, Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council and the grandson of Margaret Sanger
Reaching Out Volume 29, Spring 2008
In the first week of September, the U.S. Senate, following the lead of the U.S. House of Representatives, passed a bill which would repeal the Global Gag Rule. This was the first time in the sordid history of the Global Gag Rule that both houses of Congress went on record as opposing it.
"Nicaraguan abortion ban proves deadly"(World Briefing, Tuesday) underscores the devastating impact that restrictive abortion laws have on women's lives. In 2006, an estimated 19 million women and girls worldwide, faced with unintended pregnancies, experienced the harmful...
Commentary written by IPPF/WHR Regional Director Carmen Barroso
The Christian Science Monitor
In response to the Nov. 20 article, "Brazil doles out 'morning after' pills": I applaud the efforts of officials to reduce "Brazil's sky-high number of unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions." Despite highly restrictive abortion laws, Brazil has one of the highest abortion...
IPPF/WHR Director of Development and Public Affairs Pierre LaRamée
NACLA Report
The Nicaraguan legislature's rescinding of the country's therapeutic abortion law last December, with the support of the Sandinista bench, underlines frequent observation made by leaders of the feminist movement: that the left has at best a complex, ambivalent relationship with women's rights and...
The Christian Science Monitor - Letter to the Editor
Regarding the April 23 article on abortion in Mexico City: In Mexico, and elsewhere, unsafe abortion is a cause and consequence of poverty. Intimately linked to gender inequality, it is a serious public health issue that perpetuates social injustice.
The World Bank Board of Directors reportedly met on Tuesday to discuss a bank official's attempts to change policy promoting family planning in Madagascar, the Los Angeles Times reports (Gaouette, Los Angeles Times, 4/19). According to the public interest group the Government Accountability Project...
Washington- Under beleaguered President Paul D. Wolfowitz, the World Bank may be scaling back its long-standing support for family planning, which many countries consider essential to women's health and the fight against AIDS.
