Topic: Birth Control

U.S. abortion rate down overall but up among poor women: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Abortion rates have inched lower in most groups of U.S. women, but not among poor women, where they are still on the rise, according to a study.The report, in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, comes as the ...

U.S. abortion rate down, but up among poor women

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Abortion rates have gone down in most groups of U.S. women, but not among poor women, a new study shows. Among the lowest-income women, abortions are still on the rise.The news about high levels of abortion use ...

40 arrested in China for child trafficking

Police in China have arrested a gang of 40 people suspected of buying at least 22 children in the nation's southwest and trafficking them to a wealthier region, state press said Friday.The suspected trafficking ring allegedly bought young children -- 22 of ...
New contraceptive methods are needed for developing world women, including one in four in sub-Saharan Africa, whose needs for modern birth control are not being met, a study has found.A 52-page report by the New York-based Guttmacher Institute urged new methods to ...

Philippine bishops clash with Aquino over contraception bill

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine Catholic bishops on Tuesday walked out of talks with the government over a planned bill allowing contraception in open opposition to President Benigno Aquino who vowed to push the bill into law.Aquino pledged last month to push for ...

China probes child trafficking, adoption link

China has launched a probe into the abduction of children allegedly born in violation of population control policies then trafficked by officials into adoptions worldwide, an official said Tuesday.The investigation comes after Caixin magazine reported this week that family planning officials in ...

China province probes sale of "illegal children"

BEIJING (Reuters) - A southern Chinese province has begun investigating a report that officials had seized at least 16 babies born in violation of strict family planning rules, sent them to welfare centers and then sold them abroad for adoption.The children in ...

Birth control prescribed for Hong Kong monkeys

Wild monkeys don't seem to care that Hong Kong is a concrete jungle -- they thrive so well on its fringes that the government has introduced birth control to curb a population boom.Easy food handouts from some of the city's seven million ...

Devil talk banned in Katy Perry's childhood home

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Katy Perry says she did not have a childhood with her evangelical minister parents, who allowed her to read only the Bible and even banned terms like "deviled eggs.""I didn't have a childhood," Perry told Vanity Fair in ...

World population to pass 7 billion on October 31: U.N.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The world's population is projected to pass 7 billion on October 31 as it heads toward 10 billion or more by the end of the century, a new U.N. report said on Tuesday.The report also predicted that the ...