News from Population Matters.
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Turkey: Three-plus children for the economy
Our new series returns to our Welcome to Gilead campaign, exploring global restrictions on women’s reproductive rights. This edition revisits the chapter on Turkey from our 2021 Welcome to Gilead report. [Abortions and cesarean sections are] secret plots designed to stall Turkey’s economic growth and a conspiracy to wipe the Turkish nation from the world…
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United States: Pro-life… until birth
We’re launching a new series revisiting our Welcome to Gilead campaign, exploring global restrictions on women’s reproductive rights. In this instalment, we revisit the chapter on the USA from our 2021 Welcome to Gilead report.
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The Faces of US Pronatalism And the War on Women’s Rights – Part Two
Donald Trump is only five days into his second term, but he’s already making an impression with a flurry of executive orders. Read part two of our deep dive into the new administration, as we look at those pronatalists closest to Trump. Read The Faces of US Pronatalism And the War on Women’s Rights – Part…
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The Faces of US Pronatalism And the War on Women’s Rights – Part One
President Trump has taken office, and some of his initial executive orders closely reflect Project 2025, an authoritarian agenda that includes severe rollbacks on women’s reproductive rights. Trump’s close ties to Elon Musk and other pronatalist figures are also a cause for great concern. Here we explore the prominent figures of US pronatalism and how…
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What a Second Trump Term Means for Reproductive Rights
Today, Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th US President, ushering in renewed threats to reproductive rights. As part of Population Matters’ Welcome to Gilead campaign, Madeleine Hewitt interviews Olivia Nater from Population Connection to explore the challenges ahead and the fight for women’s rights. Q: In the first few days after Donald Trump’s election…
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Hungary’s reproductive rights: how pronatalist policies affect choice
Reproductive rights and bodily autonomy matter in their own right. This article examines Hungary’s abortion and contraception policies and the rights concerns raised by them.
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Hungary: Demography is destiny
We’re launching a new series revisiting our Welcome to Gilead campaign, exploring global restrictions on women’s reproductive rights. In this instalment, we revisit the chapter on Hungary’s demography from our 2021 Welcome to Gilead report.
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Over £27,000 raised in End of Year appeal – Thank You!
As we approach the end of the year, we would like to thank all our amazing supporters for their donations this year. All that we do is enabled through your generosity, which we value so much.
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Worst Black Friday Deals for The Planet
It’s Black Friday – when prices are slashed and hyper-consumerism goes into overdrive. But while other lists detail the best Black Friday deals on offer, here we examine the biggest environmental costs to the planet.
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What are the criticisms of degrowth?
We continue our series exploring alternative economic models. Here in the second part of our series on Degrowth, a model that calls for deliberately reducing energy and resource consumption within the economy, we examine the criticisms of degrowth.