Andrea Lynch spent four years in the communications program of the International Women's Health Coalition, where she worked to build global support for sexual and reproductive health and rights through developing resources for activists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and building awareness of how U.S. policies impact women and youth worldwide. She recently conducted research on interorganizational alliances for a masters degree in Participation, Power, and Social Change, based at the Nicaraguan NGO Puntos de Encuentro in Managua, Nicaragua.
Population Research Institute's latest piece of propaganda can't understand the difference between forced abortion and legal abortion.
Is there room for sexual moralizing in an honest conversation about AIDS? Not if that moralizing causes suffering, stigma, alienation, and excludes people needed to stop the spread of AIDS.
Andrea Lynch recently returned from a year working on reproductive health issues in Nicaragua and has unique perspective on TIME Magazine’s extensive look at abortion laws in Latin America.
Sex in the City remains an icon pf pop culture in part because they dealt with the complexity of women’s lives and their private decisions without sugar-coating difficult issues.
Failure to Deliver: Violations of Women's Human Rights in Kenyan Health Facilities paints a distressing portrait of Kenyan women's experiences of reproductive health care.
In Chicago, an organization called African American Women Evolving has spent the past decade pursuing a positive, holistic vision for reproductive health and social justice — by and for Black women.
The Democrats have taken a step in the right direction as they search for common ground on reproductive rights—but where does the journey end?
There's been a whole lot of press over the past few weeks about James D. Holsinger, the Kentucky physician who President Bush nominated in May to serve as the next U.S. Surgeon General.
Mixed news from Portugal: abortion was officially legalized up to 10 weeks without restriction on July 15, but some doctors are refusing to perform the procedures due to a conscience clause.
Andrea Lynch addresses clinic violence and the anti-abortion strategies of misinformation, coercion and intimidation to build a so-called culture of life.
