An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: March 2009
 
  17 March 2009

Pope courts controversy on condoms and Aids

On his first trip to Africa, the Pope has declared that condoms are not a solution to the Aids epidemic – but part of the problem.

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  17 March 2009

Comment: Stop the tired overpopulation hysteria

Betsy Hartmann, writing on AlterNet, argues that ‘raising alarms about overpopulation legitimises top-down punitive policies that hurt women’.

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  17 March 2009

Spain: Church and state clash over abortion law reform

The Catholic Church has launched an advertising campaign against a proposed reform of the Spanish abortion law.

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  16 March 2009

Commentary: One journalist’s surprise pregnancy

Writing in the Guardian, columnist Zoe Williams tells of her sudden discovery that she is 20 weeks’ pregnant.

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  16 March 2009

Russia: Trends in family planning, 1994-2003.

From Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, March 2009.

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  15 March 2009

What matters to women considering stem cell research using aborted fetuses?

A commentary by Professor Naomi Pfeffer of London Metropolitan University, published on Bionews

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  9 March 2009

Brazil: Excommunication row in child abortion case

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has sharply criticised a Catholic archbishop who ordered the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion.

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