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Vatican, Italian bishops slam Rome school's move to install condom-vending machinesThe decision by a Rome high school to install condom vending machines has set off a storm in Italy, with the Catholic Church charging the move will encourage young people to have ...

Morning-after pill in Austria available in pharmacies without prescriptionAustria's health ministry says the contraceptive morning-after pill is now available in pharmacies without a prescription. The ministry said Friday that women of all ages can now buy the pill — which prevents a ...

Italy has given a final go-ahead to the abortion drug RU-486, capping years of debate and defying opposition from the Vatican. The country's Drug Agency said Thursday that the last pending bureaucratic hurdle — publishing the new regulations in its official gazette ...

Unchecked population growth is speeding climate change, damaging life-nurturing ecosystems and dooming many countries to poverty, experts concluded in a conference report released Monday. Unless birth rates are lowered sharply through voluntary family-planning programmes and easy access to contraceptives, the tally of ...

British couples should consider having no more than two children to help reduce the environmental impact of the rising global population, doctors have said. An editorial in the British Medical Journal today calls on GPs to encourage the view that bigger families ...

Topic: Europe

Vatican criticizes condom machines in Rome school

Morning-after pill in Austria prescription-free

Italy allows RU-486 abortion pill in hospitals

Population growth driving climate change, poverty: experts

Doctors' advice to Britons: have fewer children and help save the planet

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