TAG: abortion

Assessments of Gorsuch nomination to Supreme Court

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court Trump Nominates Birth Control Benefit Foe Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court – Rewire Trump Nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court – Mother Jones Gorsuch expected to follow Scalia’s lead in opposing abortion on supreme court – The Guardian […]

The Trumping of global sexual politics: a preliminary assessment

In the first two weeks of his administration Donald Trump has opened a can of worms spreading around draconian and regressive conservative policy measures to close borders, to retreat from international agreements including in relation to trade and also to signal towards more aggressive military interventions “if required”. As predicted by the tone of the […]

The Women’s March on Washington was inevitable

With endorsement of the Republican Party, the Trump campaign openly disrespected and insulted more than half of the US population and this led to what can be described as a “pressure cooker effect”. After months of an unprecedented election season when Hillary and all women were mistreated by the candidate — who felt entitled to abuse his position– and sometimes also by the press; after outrageous remarks and threats to attack immigrants, Muslims, Mexican-Americans and the entire American population of African descent, the build up of outrage was steaming from coast to coast.

Donald Trump Reinstates the ‘Global Gag Rule’

In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump has reinstated a federal ban on U.S. funding for international health organizations that counsel women on family planning options that include abortion. Read more on Huffington Post. SPW also recommends for in depth analysis of Trump’s measure, which impacts not only the abortion field but […]

New CRC General Comment on Adolescents

The Committee on the Rights of the Child issued its new General Comment on Adolescents. Among other advancements, the new general comment: Recognizes that states should remove parental authorization requirements for SRH info and services (para. 60) Urges states to consider introducing a presumption of capacity for adolescents seeking preventative and time-sensitive SRH commodities and […]

India: Abortion of 24-week foetus allowed by Supreme Court

SC allows abortion of 24-week foetus, but why should women go to court in the first place? The Supreme Court on Monday permitted a woman in Mumbai to abort her 24 week foetus on the grounds that continuing with the pregnancy could endanger the life of the woman. Abortion is legal in India, but it’s […]

Sexual Politics Round-up in 2016

As 2017 begins, SPW highlights the main events and trends as well as tensions and challenges traversing sexual politics worldwide. January In January, the Zika virus epidemics stormed the headlines, as Brazilian babies affected by Zika congenital syndrome prompted a global alarm. Even though Zika had been previously detected in other countries, the Brazilian epidemic […]

Sexuality, Health and Society – Latin American Journal

The 24th issue of Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad marks its eighth year of systematic publication and presents an expressive illustration of its central themes and objectives.

ARROW for Change new issue: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and the Internet

What are the relationships and interdependencies influencing the promises of being online: voice, visibility, and power? This ARROW for Change (AFC) issue on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and the internet documents some of these dynamics.

The abortion law reform bill in Malawi that is causing debate on all sides

Newspapers and web-based news sites have carried a flurry of responses to the new abortion bill in Malawi, and has led the country’s president to deny that a bill even exists. The reasons why law reform was proposed by a commission which met from 2012 to 2015 are clear. Studies have revealed that about 70,000 Malawian […]

New online database of abstracts on abortion in Africa 2005-2016

The African Population and Health Research Centre in Kenya has put together a free online database of more than 600 publications related to abortion in Africa, including articles, book chapters, reviews, and commentaries. The database is fully searchable by author, year of publication, title, language, and keywords. Publications focus on the magnitude of abortion and […]

Reflections on Authoring the Chapter on Young Women for the 2016 Arab Human Development Report

After a long delay, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has finally published its latest Arab Human Development Report, ADHR 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Development in a Changing Reality. In this text, we would like to share our misgivings with the final product—more specifically the chapter we were involved with as authors, as […]