Virginia Del. Robert Marshall (R) on Wednesday spoke on the floor of the state House in an attempt to clarify his remarks last week suggesting that the birth of children with disabilities was God’s punishment to women who obtained an abortion during a first pregnancy, the Washington Post reports…
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The BBC examines the recent efforts by microfinance institutions (MFIs) to “provide a credit lifeline to millions of deprived people in some of the poorest countries of the world,” especially women. The piece describes the work of the non-profit Women’s World Banking (WWB), which, together with several MFIs focusing on women, is holding workshops across [...]
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Rwanda Targets Communities In Effort To Curb Maternal Mortality To reduce maternal mortality in Rwanda and reach U.N. Millennium Development Goal targets, the government will conduct maternal death audits in villages to help identify ways to improve outcomes, Rwanda’s Minister of Health Richard Sezibera announced recently, the New Times/allAfrica.com reports…
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Here’s more evidence that “safe” plastics are not as safe as once presumed: New research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy leads to epigenetic changes that may cause permanent reproduction problems for female offspring…
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The following summarizes recent state legislative action related to abortion rights. ~ Florida: State Rep…
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During a joint visit to Nigeria this week, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe and Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. global AIDS coordinator, encouraged the country to ramp up its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, Pana/Afrique en ligne reports…
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California’s teenage birth rate reached a record low in 2008, with about 35 births for every 1,000 female teens, according to figures released Monday by the state Department of Public Health, the Los Angeles Times reports. In 2007, the rate was 37.1 births per 1,000 female teens…
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It is well-documented that female fertility decreases as age advances, but new research suggests that the decline might begin much earlier and progress much faster than previously thought, Carolyn Butler writes in a Washington Post column…
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“Morning Edition” on Wednesday aired the first segment in a four-part series examining sexual assault and rape on U.S. college campuses. The series, which was produced in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, focuses on the “failure” of colleges and the Department of Education “to prevent these assaults and then to resolve these cases…
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For the first time, a woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using transplants of ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen during her cancer treatment and then restored once she was cured. Following her ovarian transplant, Mrs Stinne Holm Bergholdt gave birth to a girl in [...]
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