Celebrity has its perks, but in Beijing, large families are not one of them.
Authorities in central China have expelled 500 people from the Communist Party for defying the country's one-child policy, state media said Monday.
A growing number of rich and powerful people in central China are brazenly flouting the country's one-child policy, a newspaper said Wednesday.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joined birth-control advocates Thursday in demanding that the Bush administration withdraw an appointment that places federal family planning funds under the control of a woman they consider hostile to contraception programs.
The Bush administration, to the consternation of its critics, has picked the medical director of an organization that opposes premarital sex, contraception and abortion to lead the office that oversees federally funded teen pregnancy, family planning and abstinence programs.
Val Cole wonders if her symptoms are those of PMS or pregnancy as she waits to take the test. The pressure and realities of in vitro fertilization.
In vitro fertilization may be a high-tech science requiring sophisticated equipment, but for the Val Cole and her partner, from clinicians to clients, this assisted start to life is profoundly personal.
Vancouver radio host Val Cole and partner Stephen John begin their quest to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization. Part one of three.
Women's health and rights activists in the U.S. have spent the past two decades fighting against such actions, and advocating on behalf of global reproductive health issues. But progress has come slowly.
Reproductive health advocates want federal lawmakers to enact a series of bills in time for the holidays. At the top of their wish list is legislation to lower the cost of birth control drugs on college campuses and at health care clinics that serve low-income women.
Yesterday, Dr. Susan Orr, formerly Associate Commissioner of the Children's Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families, was appointed the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs at the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS).
Less than a week ago, the World Health Organization released one of the most comprehensive studies to date on reproductive health.
The Chinese government says it is drafting new laws to tackle the growing gender imbalance caused by the widespread abortion of female foetuses. The practice is already banned, but new rules are expected to set out specific punishments for parents and doctors.
Since 2003, the cost of contraceptives has skyrocketed for family-planning clinics, forcing them to pass those costs on to their clients.
In the past 21 years U.S. parents have adopted 55,446 Chinese children, mostly girls. In my family, we have three young girls who were born in China. My sister has two girls, aged 11 and 6 and a cousin has one, age 8.
GOP thespian Fred Thompson can now be added to the long list of presidential candidates whose awkward pasts are haunting them.
Fred Thompson, who is weighing a Republican presidential bid as a social conservative, "has no recollection" of performing lobbying work in 1991 for a family planning group that was seeking to relax an abortion counseling rule, a spokesman said Friday.
Teenagers kissing More than 26,000 people were quizzed on sex More than a quarter of people in the UK do not use contraception when they lose their virginity, a survey has claimed.
An organization representing Planned Parenthood facilities in California is lauding a vote in the House of Representatives that it says will dramatically improve access to family planning supplies overseas.
The US House of Representatives has ignored a White House veto threat and passed a foreign aid bill that would allow government donations of contraceptives to family planning groups outside the US, even though they engage in abortion activities.
A vibrating condom has become the latest target of Hindu nationalists who have outlawed sex education in many schools and suggested teaching teenagers yoga instead.
Delays in accessing the abortion drug RU-486 have prompted a Melbourne clinic to turn to a cancer drug as an alternative. The Melbourne Family Planning Clinic in East St Kilda will offer women up to seven weeks pregnant medical terminations using methotrexate.
When Anthony Fanelli was charged with strangling the family's pet rabbit and threatening to bite his wife to death in front of the couple's three young children in December, the 35-year-old Stratford man had no way of knowing he had achieved national notoriety.
Are Connecticut Family Planning Clinics Protecting Men Who Rape Children?
Yifat Susskind of MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, discusses the global reach of the Christian Right and reminds us to consider the Supreme Court decision upholding Bush's abortion ban in a broader context wherein women's rights are being attacked by rel …
A key figure in the World Bank, said to have links to the Roman Catholic sect Opus Dei, was accused yesterday of undermining its commitment to the health of women by ordering the deletion of goals, targets and policies relating to family planning.
A natural family planning method is as effective as the contraceptive pill, German research suggests.
NEARLY one in three Britons think that if a woman jumps up and down, washes or urinates immediately after sex, she can prevent pregnancy. It was one of a string of revelations in the survey carried out by the Family Planning Association (FPA) at the start of Contraceptive Aware …
The new budget provides no increased funding for Title X funding, which provides poor women with family planning services, or comprehensive sex education.
In our discussions with the IDP woman, we discovered that the woman had ten children. I would have guessed she was in a mid-thirties. Probably my age.