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What Do School Shootings Have To Do With Family Planning?

Social commentator David Leonhardt is right when he says the teenagers recently killed in Florida “had the misfortune of growing up — of trying to grow…
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New York Times: Time to Take a Deeper Look at Family Planning?

Leta Hong Fincher’s New York Times piece on China’s family planning regime raises many questions: We decry population growth policies as violating women’s rights and autonomy. Should we…
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What Does It Mean to Get a Fair Start In Life?

Should every kid born get a college savings account? Is that fair? There are great arguments that they should. Don't all kids deserve equal opportunities…
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Planning Families With Care and Love

Maggie Astor’s article on the thoughtful and caring people forgoing having kids because of climate change raises compelling questions. Should climate change (that even the Pentagon acknowledges)…
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Mass Shootings – Putting Children First Can Help Stop Them

Unspeakable acts. Thoughts and prayers. “Now is not the time” deflections. Destroyed families. Fading headlines. Repeat. But what is especially insulting, is the accusation…
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Grey’s Tackles The Question of Maternal Mortality, But We Already Know the Answer

If you’re up to date on what’s happening lately on Grey’s Anatomy, you know that the doctors have been preparing for a research competition.…
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Thirteen Tortured Kids: Watch the Abuse Continue or Take Action?

David and Louise Turpin beat, choked, starved and shackled their own children, year after year, hidden in the plain view of their own community. The…
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Is Climate Change Stopping the Most Responsible People From Having Kids?

Recently, a New York Times article featured Americans who are choosing not to have kids because they don’t want to expose them to the…
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Let’s plan for all our futures

If you support animal protection, environmental, or human rights organizations, urge them to include family planning as part of their mission.

Read, write, and help shape the movement.