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Family planning

Pregnant women hold their medical cards and wait for their turn to be examined at a government hospital on World Population Day in Hyderabad, India, Friday, July 11, 2014. 
Reproductive rights
As India becomes the world’s most populous nation, engaging men in family planning ‘will be a game changer’
Pakistanis shops in a weekly pet market in Lahore, Pakistan, Nov. 13, 2022.
Lifestyle
As Earth surpasses 8 billion people, ‘the planet can feed and sustain billions more,’ demographer says
Women with green bandanas protest in a crowd
Health & Medicine
Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds
a close up of an abortion rights activist with purple paint on her face
Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds
women wearing colorful saris gather in a circle.
Sexuality
Rural women in India struggle to access contraception. These people are trying to change that.
A young Tanzanian woman speaks to a male doctor.
Development
Tanzanian president bluntly attacks contraception, saying high birth rates are good for economy
two women
It took a cyclone for some Tongan women to get reproductive health care for the first time
Escorts surround this patient outside of Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood, New Jersey.
Culture
When health care comes with harassment: Photographing abortion clinic protests
Um Mohammed and her newborn daughter called Shafagh at the maternity clinic in Zaatari refugee camp. The clinic is run by the Jordanian Health Aid Society and United Nations Population Fund.
Culture
Go inside a maternity ward at the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp
Thousands of protesters gathered for the annual March for Life rally in Washington, DC.
Conflict
A Latina explains why she backs the March for Life
Health
Catholic leaders battle against free birth control in the Philippines
A Indian woman, who underwent sterilization surgery at a makeshift government facility in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh where at least 13 women died.
Health
India uses mass sterilization ‘camps’ to promote family planning — but at a recent one at least 13 women died
An employee demonstrates the preparation to take eggs with a needle at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu in northern Taiwan.
Health
Egg freezing may be more of a distraction than a big new perk for tech employees
Fatima Haroon, a pregnant woman in Pakistan
Health & Medicine
What if your mother-in-law decided when you got pregnant?
Fatima Haroon, a pregnant woman in Pakistan
Health & Medicine
What if your mother-in-law decided when you got pregnant?
The Debate Over Defunding Family Planning Programs