News from Population Matters.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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JD Vance and the threat to reproductive rights in the US
Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance is causing concern due to his staunch anti-abortion views, which include a nationwide ban.
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Abortion, nation and population – in the US and beyond
The end of the constitutional protection of the right to abortion in the US has been praised, as well as condemned, across the world. Population Matters’ landmark Welcome to Gilead…
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US abortion rights under threat: what’s next?
On 1 December, the US Supreme Court heard the oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the country’s most important abortion case in decades. Here’s what happened and…
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Welcome to Gilead: how population fears drive women’s rights abuses
Welcome to Gilead, Population Matters’ latest report, expands on the connections between extreme pronatalism and reproductive rights restrictions through eight case studies: Iran, China, Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Germany, and…
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Child marriage in the US: where is the outrage?
Girls as young as ten are legally getting married in the United States – nearly 300,000 since 2000, according to a new report by Unchained At Last. With no protective…
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US loses ‘football field’ worth of nature every 30 seconds
A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) reveals that more than 24 million acres of nature have been lost from the contiguous United States between 2001 and…
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US and China’s population growth at new low
The population of the United States grew by 0.6% between July 2017 and July 2018, which is the lowest recorded annual growth rate since 1937. A similar trend is happening…