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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 26–34.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Angelika Albaladejo A "witch hunt against poor women": Across the Americas, abortion laws are harming health and securityRestrictive reproductive policies in El Salvador, Colombia, the U.S., and elsewhere are pushing women toward unsafe procedures. Journalist Angelika Albaladejo argues...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Jill Filipovic India’s ban on sex-selective abortions in 1994 was designed to increase gender equality and send the message that girls and women are valued in society. But the law has also come at a cost, according to Jill Filipovic . Many poor women now find that they can’t access second-trimester...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 36–40.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... Journalist Ian Bateson reports on how Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions, backed by President Daniel Ortega, has left girls like Lucia without options, and how a handful of women’s rights groups are fighting back. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 Nicaragua rape Church abortion...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 126.
Published: 01 December 2017
... rates in
six countries. Indigenous maternal mortality rates ranged from 52 to 172 percent higher than national rates,
and tended to coincide with abortion policies. Indigenous populations in these countries are often poorer
and more likely to live in areas with limited access to abortion...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., same-sex marriage is now legal in Mexico City and Argentina. Abortions are also legal in Mexico’s capital. Such progressive legislation speaks to an accelerating secularization, although the cultural shift is far from universal. In many parts of the region, conservative Catholic views on social issues...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 57–62.
Published: 01 December 2005
... from the most illiberal of American to only those organizations willing to sign
anti-abortion, anti-choice, anti-gay lobbies. on to an administration policy against abor
These policies have opposed women’s rights, tion. In that chilling climate, nongovern
especially the freedom of choice...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 82–91.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the world when it comes to female representation in politics—155th, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, behind the likes of Saudi Arabia and North Korea. Not surprisingly, Brazilian social laws are among the most conservative in Latin America. While abortion laws have recently been liberalized...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 91–98.
Published: 01 March 2018
... waiting longer to have their first child, it would make sense to see an increase in the number of couples who have trouble conceiving without technological assistance. Many of the doctors I met also pointed to damage caused by multiple premarital abortions. Given the difficulties involved...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 70–74.
Published: 01 June 2018
... the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The following year, the Soviet Union became the first country in Europe to legalize abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. These legislative changes were unprecedented not only in Russia, but also in Europe and North America. In the West, it would...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 39–47.
Published: 01 March 2014
... ready for a female president. But not all Costa Rican women were cheering for Chinchilla, a staunch social conservative who openly opposes abortion and other reproductive and sexual rights. A group of Costa Rican feminists issued a statement shortly before the elections, detailing why Chinchilla...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 13–18.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of the popular will. Here fended Bush’s position on abortion as in line
was one of those elemental moments, as in with the values of the European Enlighten
South Africa, as in Poland in 1989, as in ment. But so far from showing understand
Afghanistan a few weeks ago, when the ing of American...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 102–109.
Published: 01 December 2016
... kidnapped and later executed him as part of an abortive coup in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Sutoyo’s corpse was found three days later in an unused well. For years, the sound of boots against tile would haunt Agus. After the coup failed, Maj. Gen. Suharto wrested control of the military from...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 13–17.
Published: 01 March 2017
... several authoritarian measures—against Muslims, refugees, Mexican immigrants, abortion rights—that put into question both democracy and the state of law. His cabinet choices for the new administration—notably the extreme-right nationalist Steve Bannon as “chief strategist”—clearly confirm this trend...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 18–22.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the entire political system. In addition, for three decades, China’s One-Child Policy was enforced by a small army of government workers who monitored and controlled women’s fertility. This led to widespread sex-selective abortion and a dramatically skewed sex ratio; in 2014, roughly 116 boys were born...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 89–92.
Published: 01 June 2001
... a
blood test for Georgian citizenship, and claimed the long lost Holy Grail lay hidden in Tbi
lisi’s cathedral. He likened the Kremlin to Satan and faulted the West as spineless while fail-
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ing to condemn the abortive August...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 7–13.
Published: 01 December 2011
... is going resolutely global (while exporting barbecues, suits and ties, and English as the language of worship). The Catholic Church and the Muslim League push for changes in legislation (opposition to same-sex marriages and abortion) and for legal censorship of attacks against religions. The nexus...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 77–82.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... This is where Jair Bolsonaro comes in. Currently at second place at the polls, Bolsonaro is Lula’s diametrical opposite. Seen as a political outsider, he is a retired army captain with socially conservative values and a tough stance on crime. He favors a reactionary moral agenda, opposes abortion and adoption...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 March 2001
... These killings strengthened the hand of
has proved very difficult to halt ever since. elements in the military involved in plot
E t a ’s most spectacular action under ting anti-democratic coups, culminating in
Francoism was the assassination, in central Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero’s abortive seizure...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to contraception, and no access to safe and legal abortion. While feminists across the region continue to campaign for reproductive rights, responsible paternity legislation tends to elide these controversial issues. Meanwhile, poor people often have very different ideas about what the state’s priorities...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 54–59.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in
Foreign Relations Committee is one— it is forced abortions in China. In the 1960s, the
surely a matter of deeply felt conviction, a United States was in the forefront of inter
fear that meddling foreigners will compro national birth control programs, and sup
mise American sovereignty...
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