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.
Betsy Hartmann, writing on AlterNet, argues that ‘raising alarms about overpopulation legitimises top-down punitive policies that hurt women’.
The Catholic Church has launched an advertising campaign against a proposed reform of the Spanish abortion law.
Writing in the Guardian, columnist Zoe Williams tells of her sudden discovery that she is 20 weeks’ pregnant.
From Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, March 2009.
A commentary by Professor Naomi Pfeffer of London Metropolitan University, published on Bionews.
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.