September 11, 2023 | Article
This year, instead of celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion, advocates of reproductive rights are observing the grim one-year mark since the Court overturned that ruling—and mapping out strategies for restoring abortion access where it was lost…...
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August 7, 2024 | Post
Earth Overshoot Day fell on August 1 this year, meaning that in the first seven months of 2024, we already used up all the natural resources the planet can regenerate in a year. We need to escape overshoot by reining in unsustainable consumption and population growth. Let’s take a look…...
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November 1, 2011 | Post
On October 31, 2011, according to demographers at the UN Population Division, the earth’s human population crossed the 7 billion mark. It took only 12 years for the global population to increase from 6 billion in 1999—and only 12 years before that to increase from 5 billion. The UN Population…...
Read MoreDecember 11, 2023 | Article
New Interactive Poster Kits Just Released This fall, PopEd published two new resources to grace classroom walls. Our updated World Population Map depicts countries by their population size, rather than by their land area. This new cartogram represents the global population at 8 billion, using the latest data from the…...
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March 21, 2022 | Article
On the morning of December 1, 2021, Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis felt positive. She was in Washington, DC, to support her legal team as they argued against Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court case that directly challenges Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision…...
Read MoreMarch 21, 2022 | Article
With the right to abortion under threat, men say they want to play a role in reproductive planning to support their partners. Originally published by The Washington Post on December 26, 2021 After Andy and Erin Gress had their fourth child, Andy decided it was time for him to “step…...
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March 2, 2020 | Article
2019 was a big year for #Fight4HER, our joint campaign with Population Connection Action Fund. Across the country, our activists worked hard to make the campaign—now in its fourth year—stronger than ever. Here’s a look back at some of the things that happened last year! We kicked off the year…...
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March 2, 2020 | Article
Ostensibly, abortion remains legal in the United States. Ostensibly. But the reality is far different: Onerous requirements on abortion facilities have melted their numbers, limiting access to providers. Hundreds of restrictions have been passed over the years to place hurdles between women seeking to terminate a pregnancy and the procedure…...
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June 21, 2022 | Article
Dara E. Purvis, JD The world was rocked the evening of May 2, when a draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to Politico. The draft is not a surprise, but Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion is a broad attack on privacy rights…...
Read MoreDecember 12, 2022 | Article
As I prepare to send this issue of the magazine to the printer, four of my colleagues and one of our board members are in Thailand at the International Conference on Family Planning. They are hosting an exhibit booth each day, talking with conference attendees from the United States and…...
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