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• Chinese Experts Urge Adjustments To Family Norm Due To Worsening Gender Imbalance

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 553
  Gender imbalance in ChinaWorsening gender imbalance and an aging population have prompted experts to intensify their call for adjustments in the country’s decades-old family planning policy. The experts have urged the government to ease the family planning policy, which allows most of the couples to have only one ...
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• Give Me 22 Reasons

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  For over six month, I have had a note posted here on the shelf over my computer. The note says, "Give me 20 good reasons". All this time, I knew what I wanted to write, but I was not sure I would be able to go through the "open heart surgery" of telling you about my loss. I think I was building up the confidence to ...
  17 hours ago

• AIDS research reveals a lack of family-planning programs in Uganda

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 125
  University of Alberta graduate student Jennifer Heys wants to make her message clear: there needs to be more education in Ugandan communities about contraception.Heys’ research, on HIV-positive individuals and their desire to bear more children, was read by experts from all over the world who gathered last week at ...
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• In Support of Abortion, It’s Personal vs. Political

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  For the post-Roe generation, abortion has been a personal choice and not a political cause. This worries pro-choice leaders in and out of Congress.
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• What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  I have always thought of myself as a good mother. It has been easier for me than for other people, because I have studied Special Education and I have had the knowledge to raise happy and successful kids . Yet, during my Better Parenting Skills workshops, I surprise people when I tell them that a big part of my ...
  3 days ago

• Congratulations Guatemala

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 140
  On telling the misogynists in the Catholic Church to go take a hike. Now do your people some real good and take away the tax exempt status of all religions. from IPS GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 26 (IPS) – Social organisations in Guatemala are celebrating the entry into effect of a family planning law that will usher ...
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• A Choice I Could Not Make

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  I talk and write a lot about choice. It is no coincidence my motto is "Happiness is a choice!" Yet, there was a time when I could not live by this motto. It was after I had lost two babies. I wanted to make the choice to have only one child and to let go of my desire to go through another pregnancy to satisfy my wish ...
  4 days ago

• Op-Ed Contributor: False Alarm on Abortion

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  What is being overlooked in the abortion debate is the other benefits that expanded health insurance coverage could bring to women’s reproductive health.
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• Prevention, not Prescriptions

  
  Natural Family Planning — Authority: 416
  Have you heard of Kathleen Slattery–Moschkau? She’s a mom, wife and former drug-pusher (her words, not mine) who’s reformed, and using her zeal against big pharma to promote all things healthy, whole and fun. She’s gone from rebel with a cause to writer, radio talk show host, and movie producer–still with ...
  5 days ago

• Genetic Testing

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  Since today is Wednesday, it is my day to post, but surprisingly enough, my post is quite related to our tragic baby story Ronit is sharing with you now. It is related, because one of our babies died from a genetic heart defect, which we had had no knowledge of and therefore had never checked for. A couple of weeks ...
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• Kid Grief

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  Grief is hard for grownups and can be even harder for kids . As we grieved for our lost hopes and our two dead babies, our very-much-alive daughter Eden was going through a very tough time. [If you reading this blog for the first time and you want to know the reasons for our grief, read our family story in the 3 ...
  6 days ago

• Health, Policy Experts Gather For 3-Day Conference On Family Planning

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 146
  By offering family planning services to people seeking HIV/AIDS information and treatment, Africa’s population growth rate could be curbed by 2.5 percent, health experts said Monday during an international family health conference in Kampala, Uganda, Agence France-Presse reports (11/16). Source: Health, Policy ...
  1 week ago

• Asia Cast for Monday 23rd November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 127
  Although China says the one-child-policy is voluntary, sadly, evidence shows it is often coerced and many times a violent process. (By Micah Sittig/Flickr) In this Bulletin… - China’s coercive and often violent family population control measures; - Japan’s deflationary economy; and - Sydney, Australia ...
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• Awe, Anger, Frustration, Relief

  
  Natural Family Planning — Authority: 416
  Part two of Michelle’s testimony of why they ditched contraception. This part includes more of their actual discovery of the Church teaching, the wonders of fertility, the horror of abortifacients, and the joy of desiring children. What I think will resonate deeply with readers is the anger of never receiving this ...
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• Another Baby Nightmare

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  I have been building up courage for a long time to write about some of the defining moments of my life, the moments of misfortune that have helped me become the person I am today. Every time I run a workshop or coach a client, when we get to dealing with hard times, I tell people about my loss and how strong I have ...
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• UNFPA Report Highlights Relationship Between Family Planning, Women’s Health And Climate Change

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 146
  “Providing access to contraception for 215 million women, mainly in developing countries, would help to stabilize population growth and significantly reduce the effects of climate change,” according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Nature News reports (Gilbert, 11/18). ...
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• Family Planning Drive Launched During Conference In Uganda

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 146
  Agence France-Presse examines a new U.S.-backed “12 million dollar family planning drive launched” Wednesday during a three-day conference on family planning in Kampala, Uganda. Source: Family Planning Drive Launched During Conference In Uganda
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• Uganda in the Rearview Mirror

  
  Behind the Numbers: The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment — Authority: 110
  by Jay Gribble, vice president, International Programs   Over the past few days, I’ve had the opportunity to attend the International Family Planning Conference , held at the Speke Conference Center in Uganda.  This meeting has given me the chance to learn a lot about Uganda and get updated on what has been ...
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• Her Heart Overflows

  
  Natural Family Planning — Authority: 416
  Just found this testimony of a mother of four who is a fan of Natural Family Planning, which she learned with her husband in 2002. She published part one, “Why Do I Use Natural Family Planning” on her blog. I think it could more aptly be called “How I kicked the Pill and embraced the Church,” as we haven’t ...
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• Baby Hope

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  If you were here yesterday and read about my "heart surgery" this is the next part. If not, please read 35-hour baby first so you can understand why I needed so much hope to move forward. … I spent hours closing my eyes and trying to wake up in a different life, where the scar is not so painful. I knew what it ...
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