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June 26, 2026 | Post

For nearly 50 years, Americans in every state had the constitutional right to an abortion under Roe v. Wade. During that time, a politically-driven anti-abortion movement formed and grew in scale and influence, chipping away at reproductive rights both domestically and internationally by swaying court appointments and state and national elections.   On June 24, 2022, the conservative Supreme Court, stacked with three new right-wing justices appointed by Trump, overturned Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Four years since this ruling, 13 states have implemented total…...

June 23, 2026 | Post

Earlier this year, 23-year-old Susan Akello was found dead on a porch in eastern Uganda after taking herbal supplements to terminate her pregnancy.   In central Uganda, Prossy Muyingo comes out each night with a glass of water and a birth control pill to give to a 28-year-old who is scared her husband will beat her if he discovers she is taking a contraceptive.   This is the reality for…...

May 28, 2026 | Post

It's been almost one year since the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was shuttered by the Trump-Vance administration.   Elon Musk, the wealthiest person alive and a megadonor to Trump’s presidential campaign, led the misguided, cruel, and unconstitutional effort to close the agency. Musk eventually left DC and his hostile DOGE operation came to an end, but its dire consequences persist, as evidenced by the current outbreak of Ebola virus that is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda.   Timeline of USAID’s Dissolution   As soon as Donald…...

May 26, 2026 | Post

This past Mother’s Day, the Trump-Vance Administration unveiled Moms.gov, a new website created to allegedly provide useful resources to expecting mothers. But the Oval Office event to announce it gave the website’s real agenda away. Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy Jr. spoke of a “fertility crisis” in the United States. Dr. Oz said that 1 in 3 Americans were “under-babied” and…...

December 6, 2025 | Post

The Population Connection Communications and Field teams were delighted to take part in the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), held in Bogotá, Colombia, from November 1-7.   After a long 10 months battling the Trump administration’s near-daily assaults on reproductive health and rights, it was such a relief to…...

September 26, 2025 | Post

Friday, September 26th marks World Contraception Day, which honors the invaluable benefits that access to contraceptives has brought to countless people. The ability to determine whether and when to become pregnant has opened up pathways to education and economic opportunities that were unavailable to generations of girls and women while…...

July 21, 2025 | Post

In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the landmark case of Roe v. Wade with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, reversing the almost 50-year precedent of the constitutional right to abortion nationwide. Justice Samuel Alito, representing the anti-abortion faction of the Court, believed that the original ruling “was exceptionally weak,…...

June 24, 2025 | Post

The WorldPride festival glowed with the spirit of joy and the energy of activism. Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world attended, making the 50th anniversary of the event in D.C. one of the largest pride celebrations in D.C. and in U.S. history. At the intersection of 9th…...

June 23, 2025 | Post

Since the beginning of the Pride movement, activists have been fighting to end discrimination and inaccessibility for LGBTQI+ patients’ health care. Around the world, patients are denied comprehensive health care services because of their identity, or don’t feel safe to seek out lifesaving treatments because of cultural stigmas they face.…...

June 5, 2025 | Post

At the beginning of his second term, the Trump administration issued an executive order halting all foreign aid and assistance for a 90-day review. Since then, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead foreign assistance agency within the federal government, has been dissolved, with thousands of employees…...