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Forced Sterilization in Nambia

Posted on June 26, 2009 - 5:15pm by

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Public hospitals in Nambia, funded by US aid programs, have come under fire for allegedly forcing women to be sterilized if they are HIV positive.

Read more here:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/reader-diaries/2009/06/16/in-namibia-and-b...

Judge jails woman until baby is born

Posted on June 12, 2009 - 10:11am by

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BANGOR, Maine — A woman from the African nation of Cameroon could give birth in a federal prison because she is HIV-positive.

U.S. District Judge John Woodcock last month sentenced Quinta Layin Tuleh, 28, to 238 days in federal prison for having fake documents. Woodcock said the sentence would ensure that Tuleh’s baby, due Aug. 29, has a good chance of being born free of the AIDS virus.

In Memory of Dr. George Tiller: Renewing Our Commitment to Justice

Posted on June 3, 2009 - 1:36pm by

candelight_vigil.jpgAuthors' note: Hearing the news of Dr. George Tiller’s murder brought all of us at Pop.Dev and our sister program, CLPP, to work this week with immense sadness and fear.

Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation

Posted on May 28, 2009 - 11:38am by

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Pop.Control Watch




Some of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to fund population control.

Women Sue Over Device To Stop Urine Leaks

Posted on May 5, 2009 - 2:02pm by

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It was the promise of a quick fix that appealed to Amber Suriani.

She had just turned 40 and was very fit, but whenever she went running or practiced karate — she was working on a black belt — she leaked a bit of urine.

The diagnosis was stress urinary incontinence, and her surgeon recommended a simple procedure to plug the leak by inserting a hammock made of a strip of synthetic meshlike material, called a vaginal sling, under her urethra.

Immigration Debate a New Symptom of Swine Flu Outbreak

Posted on May 5, 2009 - 1:59pm by

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Reporting from Houston -- As word spread Wednesday that the first U.S. death from the swine flu outbreak was of a Mexican toddler being treated in a Houston children's hospital, the baffling illness began bleeding over into the fevered national debate over illegal immigration.

Ex-AID Chief Calls for More Family Planning Aid

Posted on April 29, 2009 - 3:06pm by

By Dominique Soguel - WeNews correspondent

NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--A group of five former directors of the population and reproductive health program of the U.S. Agency for International Development issued a report Tuesday calling for aggressive investment in family planning to curb population growth, poverty and maternal mortality.

They recommended the United States push its spending on overseas family planning to $1.2 billion in the next year's funding round from $475 million in 2008.

Marriage Can Wait

Posted on April 21, 2009 - 3:20pm by

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