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U.N. Women's Health Conference Must Focus on Education
Tweet Share on Facebook June 7, 2010 Comment (10)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Washington D.C. is the focal point starting today for a three-day gathering of United Nations and NGO officials all dedicated to the improvement of maternal health. There are many, many topics on the agenda including elimination of fistula and the use of microbicides (in the form of vaginal spray or gel) to prevent the transmission of AIDS. According to France 24:
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Study Shows Alarming Teen Views on Pregnancy, Contraception
Tweet Share on Facebook June 4, 2010 Comment (23)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
It's a sad day in America when almost 20 percent of teens tell government researchers they rely on the rhythm method to prevent pregnancy. But it's what Centers for Disease Control researchers found in a report released earlier this week.
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Don't Lift the International Ban on Whaling
Tweet Share on Facebook June 2, 2010 Comment (18)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) meets later this month in Morocco to consider lifting a long-standing ban on commercial whaling.
The idea sounds positively loony on its face (and it is). But the hope by some anti-whaling countries is that by allowing the three nations that slaughter whales commercially to whale commercially, they can save more whales by persuading those nations to whale in lower numbers. The argument against lifting the ban is that those three nations, Japan, Iceland and Norway, are not trustworthy anyway and won’t lower, but will actually increase, their slaughter of these intelligent mammals.
