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...myriad ways. Aside from the obvious fiscal consequences, the prospect of a global economic downturn also induces subtle, yet profound, psychological changes. Researchers have found that in hard times people prefer models who look mature—probably because evolutionary instincts compel them to search for a capable provider??while slow, contemplative tunes like “That’s What Friends Are For” are favored over more upbeat melodies...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: The Second Coming | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Bush Administration, foreign NGOs that use their own funds to perform abortions, offer abortion counseling or lobby for legalizing abortion in their countries are denied U.S. aid. The White House has blocked funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) —a key international family planning care provider??for two years running on charges that they finance abortion services in China. (UNFPA denies the charges and their story was recently corroborated by an independent delegation of experts...

Author: By Sasha Post, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Marching For Women’s Lives | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...while minimizing hardship on children and encouraging families to remain insured. They argued that policies which pushed parents away from state insurance programs meant children would not get necessary services and those with urgent healthcare needs would be forced to rely on the emergency room as their primary care provider??a dangerous and expensive proposition. Of all the options available to state administrators, raising premiums was the most likely to push families away from the program. But in November 2003 that is exactly what the state...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Putting Children’s Insurance First | 3/23/2004 | See Source »

Take Kenya’s Kisumu province, which suffers from the highest rate of HIV infections in the country. When Marie Stopes Kenya—an NGO which serves as Kenya’s leading family planning services provider??had its funding slashed after the re-implementation of the Global Gag Rule, it was forced to close its Kisumu clinic, which provided not only family planning but HIV prevention services for hundreds of women in the region. In addition, the organization was forced to close a clinic in Kenya’s Mathare Valley which had offered Malaria...

Author: By Sasha Post, | Title: Gagged and Bound | 11/20/2003 | See Source »

...only does the morning-after pill have a limited time frame of effectiveness, but many Catholic hospitals serve as the primary source of health care in low-income areas of many cities. Sometimes a Catholic hospital is a community’s only provider??leaving sexual assault survivors with very little chance of being taken to a hospital that will provide her with the treatment she needs. These victims have nowhere else...

Author: By Anat Maytal, ANAT MAYTAL | Title: Suffering Once Was Enough | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

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