Limiting Access in America to Family Planning Has a High Cost
In a 163-page rule-changing document, “Religious Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act,” as of... Read More
Bill Maher: We Should Have Fewer Resource-Sucking Children
Outspoken comedian Bill Maher of HBO’s popular show Real Time with Bill Maher, taped in Los Angeles, is a mixed bag when... Read More
Long-lasting Contraceptives Help Reduce Teen Pregnancies
The good news: teen pregnancy rates have declined to historic lows in the United States in recent years. The bad news: the... Read More
World Vasectomy Day 2016: Yes Virginia, Family Planning is for Men Too
Contrary to the hopes of those who care about an environmentally sustainable future for humanity and the biosphere, world population growth is... Read More
Bill that Would Reduce Unintended Pregnancies Passes California Senate
Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended or unwanted. In a bipartisan vote of 28 to 6, the... Read More
Today is International Women’s Day
In Yvon Chouinard’s “Let my people go surfing / the education of a reluctant businessman,” the founder and owner of Patagonia, writes,... Read More
Gutting Family Planning Programs Will Only Increase Abortions
I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras for three years. Family planning and birth control were rudimentary at best in that... Read More
Birth Control Pill Founder Carl Djerassi Understood Politics Would Take Greater Role in Family Planning than Science
A CAPS Advisory Board member, chemist and professor widely credited as the father of the birth control pill, or “the Pill,” Carl... Read More
A regrettable choice of words: An elephant in the room, a straw man or a red herring?
A study recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reached the unsurprising if not... Read More
Family Planning Can Help Stabilize Global Numbers
Evidence mounts that world population will not stabilize, as some forecasters thought it would, by 2050. The UN recently released a study... Read More