contraception
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Women, population, and the age of the ‘Black Swan’
World population doubled in the last half-century to nearly 7 billion people. To address population growth, we need to advance and secure women's rights.
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Come and get your Endangered Species Condoms
The Center for Biological Diversity wants to give away 100,000 Endangered Species Condoms this fall. Wanna help?
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I am the population problem
Population growth tends to get blamed on other people. But actually the population problem is all about me: white, middle-class, American me.
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What you don’t know about women, climate change, and population [VIDEO]
Here's a population angle you might not have considered before: Family planning can help women adapt to climate change that's already happening.
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Rick Perry stumbles and mumbles as he tries to defend abstinence education [VIDEO]
"Abstinence works." That's Rick Perry's response to a question about why Texas is sticking with abstinence-only education despite its high teen pregnancy rate.
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Environmentalists need to care about abortion [VIDEO]
You can't have a sustainable society if women are having children they don't want. This video from the Guttmacher Institute looks at who's having abortions in America.
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Free birth control ruling is preventive care for the Earth
As of yesterday, new and renewed private insurance plans will now have to cover contraception, according to a ruling from the Department of Health and Human Services. Given that population reduction is one of the best things we can do for the planet, this is awesome news -- it removes the biggest financial barrier to people having only the number of kids they want and no more (or having no kids at all).
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Free birth control? We're getting closer … [UPDATE: We're there!]
Women will no longer have to make co-pays on birth control, the Obama administration announced on Aug. 1.
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Why aren't men demanding decent male birth control?
Contraception has long been the province of women. Isn't it about time for men to get in on the game? These days men have a lot more at stake than they used to.