Videos Discuss Global Family Planning, Abortion Myths, Supreme Court Confirmation

The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. Family Planning Enables Economic Progress: In a video and commentary on the Daily Beast, actress Ashley Judd describes how access to contraception enabled a Tanzanian woman to provide economic stability and educational opportunities for her daughters…

New York Times Columnist Calls For Investments In Global Family Planning

Although topics such as AIDS, tsunamis and earthquakes make for “dramatic” and “visceral” news about the developing world, there is “a far more widespread challenge, one that’s also more fixable: the unavailability of birth control in many poor countries,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. Kristof notes that the birth control pill, “50 years old this month in the [U.S…

NPR Examines Obama Administration's Global Family Planning Policies

NPR’s “Morning Edition” examines how global family planning fits into the Obama administration’s global health policy. “The administration has already restored funding for the United Nations Population … Fund, which for eight years received no U.S. support. And in his first week, President Obama lifted an executive order that existed in the Reagan and Bush administrations that prohibited U.S…