Washington Post: Talking about overpopulation is still taboo. That has to change. Frances Kissling, president of the Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy; Jotham Musinguzi, director general of Uganda’s National Population Council; and Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp professor of bioethics at Princeton University “…Both feminists and population stabilization…

Northwestern University Law Review: Challenging the Rhetorical Gag and Trap: Reproductive Capacities, Rights, and the Helms Amendment Michele Goodwin, chancellor’s professor and director of the Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy at the University of California, Irvine, examines the Helms amendment and the Mexico City policy from a legal…

CNN: Would-be Indian child bride fights back and helps others (Ahuja, 6/18). Devex: How family planning can help save cheetahs (Edwards, 6/18). Devex: Alarm bells sounded over new E.U. aid instrument proposals (Chadwick, 6/15). Devex: DRC bordering countries begin Ebola preparedness training (Roby, 6/15). New York Times: Video Game Addiction…

NPR: Trump’s Ban On Funding For Overseas Abortions Has Some Little-Known Exceptions “…Trump’s version [of the Mexico City policy] is far more sweeping. Rather than limiting the ban to U.S. aid for family planning services, Trump has for the first time applied it to aid for virtually all global health…

Agence France-Presse: ‘Forced’ sterilization of Brazilian woman sparks uproar (Smith, 6/14). Fast Company: How satellite imagery could combat infectious diseases around the world (Terdiman, 6/13). Financial Times: HIV treatment breakthrough boosts GSK (Neville, 6/14). Reuters: GSK’s two-drug HIV treatment meets main goal in late-stage studies (Nair, 6/14). IRIN: Q&A: How…

The Hill: For safety and security in Niger, solutions must flow upstream Malcolm Potts and Alisha Graves, co-founders of the OASIS (Organizing to Advance Solutions in the Sahel) Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley; and Serge Michailof, former director of operations for the French Development Agency “…There are achievable…

Washington Post: China is finally ending the one-child policy. It can’t happen soon enough. Chen Guangcheng, author “Recent news reports suggest that the Chinese Communist Party is considering abandoning one of its longest-running and most abusive practices: its reproduction planning policy, commonly known as the one-child policy. … Returning reproductive…

Business Insider: South Korea has the highest rate of deaths by suicide in the developed world — but a 2011 law helped decrease rates by 15% (Premack, 6/9). CNN: Pro-life activists target rural Nepali women (Todras-Whitehill/Adhikari, 6/9). Devex: Deal slashes drug price of 3 in 1 pill for people living…

Quartz: Study: The White House’s international aid cuts could cause millions more abortions by 2020 “…On June 5, the Center for Gender and Health Equity (CHANGE) published an evaluation of the [Mexico City] policy’s impact, comparing it to prior iterations of the same rule. Its analysis shows that Trump’s version…

The Guardian: Letters: Respecting women’s rights and the planet key to family planning Arthur Erken, director for the division of communications and strategic partnerships at UNFPA, and Robin Maynard, director at Population Matters “I read with interest your editorial … The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) strongly agrees that ‘crude…