IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: 116th Congress: Senate Foreign Relations Committee gets new Chair, three new Republican members Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” discusses new leadership in the 116th Congress, including Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), who is the new chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Sen. Ted…

POLITICO: POLITICO Pulse “…Valerie Huber moved to global affairs office. The prominent abstinence advocate, who at one time steered HHS’ family planning funds, will now serve as the office’s senior policy adviser focused on sexual and reproductive affairs, POLITICO scooped. Huber is expected to strip references to sexual and reproductive…

New York Times: Letter to the Editor: To Guarantee Women’s Rights Melvine P. Ouyo, student at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and provider at Family Health Options Kenya “…Every day, young women … face inaccessible health care, domestic violence, delayed decision-making that leads to dangerous abortions, unintended pregnancy,…

London School of Economics’ U.S. Centre: Trump’s reinstatement and expansion of the global gag rule has harmful effects for women, men, and children In this blog post, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, professor at Rutgers University and faculty director of the Center for Women and Work; Ernestina Coast, professor of…

IntraHealth International’s “VITAL”: Why Should Postabortion Care Be Youth-Friendly? Mallory Michalak, 2018 UNC-IntraHealth summer fellow, speaks with Stembile Mugore, a midwife and public health professional at IntraHealth International, about the importance of postabortion care for young people and how to improve sexual and reproductive health services for this group (1/9).

Rewire.News: Democrats Take Aim at Trump’s Global Gag Rule in Bill to Reopen the Federal Government “Included among the roughly 1,000 pages of text of the spending bill Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives passed last week to re-open the federal government was language to repeal parts of the…

The Guardian: On trial: El Salvador’s abortion ban “The shocking case of Imelda Cortez has put El Salvador’s strict abortion laws in the spotlight. [In this ‘Today in Focus’ podcast, h]uman rights lawyer Paula Avila-Guillen and reporter Nina Lakhani describe how a surprise verdict has given fresh hope to women…

BuzzFeed News: House Democrats Just Passed A Bill That Undercuts Trump’s Abortion Policy “House Democrats passed a bill to try to end the government shutdown on Thursday night that would also undercut a major anti-abortion policy Donald Trump implemented as one of his first acts as president nearly two years…

The Guardian: ‘A gift to feminists’: how Trump’s ‘gag rule’ inspired a worldwide movement “…The reintroduction of the Mexico City policy — or ‘global gag rule’ as it’s commonly known — banned overseas NGOs from receiving U.S. federal funding if they provided any abortion services. … Lilianne Ploumen, the then…

BuzzFeed News: 8 Disease Outbreaks From 2018 That You Should Know About (Kee, 12/16). Devex: DFID urged to push for bolder U.N. humanitarian reforms (Edwards, 12/19). The Economist: Why did Nigeria ban UNICEF? (12/18). The Economist: Scanning mosquitoes with infrared light could help to control malaria (12/18). The Guardian: ‘The…