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Catholics for a Free Choice

Ceauşescu, Nicolae

Center for Reproductive Rights

Chad

Chamorro, Violeta

Chesler, Ellen

Chesnais, Jean-Claude

Chile

China

Chung, Woojin

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

CNN

cold war/anticommunism.
See also
overpopulation, control of

Colombia

colonialism/imperialism

abortion bans as artifacts of

British

family planning export as

women’s rights and

Commission on Population Growth and the American Future

communism.
See
cold war/anticommunism

Comoros

condoms

Congress, U.S.

Connelly, Matthew

conservatives

consumerism

Corrêa, Sonia

Costa Rica

Country Under My Skin, The
(Belli)

Crowley, Pat and Patty

culture/culture wars

Cyprus

Das Gupta, Monica

Death of the West
(Buchanan)

declinist literature

Delgado Sarmiento, Violeta

Demographic Winter

den Boer, Andrea M.

developing world.
See also specific places; specific topics
export of family planning to.
See
family planning, export of

international family planning donor aid to

international law and

maternal mortality in

population boom in

skepticism on birth control

treatment of women in

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era

Development as Freedom
(Sen)

development/modernization

de Waal, Alex

Doha International Conference for the Family

Doha International Institute for Family Studies and Development

Dorkenoo, Efua

Dos Santos, Joao

Draper, William

Draper Committee

D’Souza, Dinesh

Dulles, John Foster

Dunlop, Joan

Dutt, Nirupama

Earth Summit (1992)

East Asia

Eberstadt, Nicholas

Egypt

Ehrlich, Paul

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

El Salvador, abortion in

Empty Cradle, The

End of History and the Last Man, The
(Fukuyama)

Enemy at Home, The
(D’Souza)

England

Ensler, Eve

environmentalism/green revolution

Epstein, Helen

Equality Now

Equal Rights Amendment

Eritrea

Esquivel, María

Ethiopia

eugenics

European Court of Human Rights

Europe/European Union.
See also specific countries

international law and

low birthrate in

Muslim immigration to

UNFPA funding by

United States and, comparison between

evangelicals.
See also
right/religious right

Facing Mount Kenya
(Kenyatta)

Family and Medical Leave Act

Family of the Americas Foundation

family planning/contraception.
See also specific methods

abortion rates and use of

in Africa

in Bangladesh

compulsory

earliest proponents of

eugenics and

export of.
See
family planning, export of

feminist attack on

global rate of use of

in India

international movement.
See
family planning, export of

Islam and

oral, U.S. approval of

quality of

religion and.
See also
right/religious right

U.S. policy on.
See
population policy, U.S.

family planning, export of

anticommunism and

attempt to change culture by

coercion in

as colonialism

distrust of

educational efforts in

European

feminist attacks on

funding for.
See also
UNPFA

Helms amendment and

mistrust of

multilateral efforts in

Nixon and

population control as goal of

racism in

sexism in

U.S. funding for

women’s rights as goal of

family policies

Fatal Misconception
(Connelly)

female circumcision

activism against

alternative initiation rights to

British colonialists and

CNN broadcast of

in Egypt

in Great Britain

health consequences of

history of

as human rights violation

infant mortality and

in Kenya

missionaries and

Muslims and

female circumcision (
cont.
)

national laws against

as persecution

proponents of

sexual enjoyment and

types of

in United States

USAID and

“female feticide”

female infanticide.
See
sex selection

feminism.
See
women’s rights/women’s rights movements

fertility rates.
See
birthrates

Fine Balance, A
(Mistry)

Fletes, Francisco

FMLN

food and water shortages

Ford, Gerald

Ford Foundation

France

Fukuyama, Francis

Gabon

gag rule, global

Gambia

Gandhi, Indira

Gandhi, Sanjay

gender imbalance

George, Sabu

Georgia

Germain, Adrienne

Germany

Ghana

Giertych, Roman

Gillespie, Duff

girls

circumcision of.
See
female circumcision

marriage of

mistreatment of

sex selective abortion and.
See
sex selection

globalization

conflation of women’s rights with

of culture wars

female circumcision and

optimism about

traditional gender roles vs.

as U.S. dominated phenomenon

Goldberg, Merle

Gore, Al

Grameen Bank

Gramm, Phil

Great Britain.
See also
England

Greer, Germaine

Guatemala

Guilmoto, Christophe Z.

Gutierrez, Linda

Guttmacher Institute

Haig, Alexander

Haiti

Hannity, Sean

Hayden, Michael V.

Helms, Jesse

Hewlett, William

Hewlett Foundation

Hindus

His Holiness
(Bernstein and Politi)

HIV/AIDS

Howard, John

Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society

Hudson, Valerie

Humanae Vitae

Human Life International

human rights

international law on

reproductive rights as

United Nations and

women’s rights as

Human Rights Watch

Hyde, Henry

Iceland, birthrate in

immigration

imperialism.
See
colonialism/imperialism

India.
See also specific places

abortion in

birthrates in

compulsory birth control in

consumerism in

dowry in

international law and

Johnson’s pressure on

lack of pro-life movements in

maternal mortality

population control in

sex determination tests, illegality of

sex selection in

social modernization vs. technological progress

Indonesia

infant and child mortality

infertility

infibulation

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

international family planning movement.
See
family planning, export of

international law.
See also specific laws

developing world and

Europe and

India and

reproductive rights recognized by

therapeutic abortion and

United States and

women’s rights under

women’s use of

International Planned Parenthood Federation

International Pregnancy Advisory Service.
See
Ipas

International Women’s Health Coalition

Invisible Cure
(Epstein)

Ipas

Iran

Iraq

Ireland, birthrate in

Islam/Muslims

abortion and

birthrate among

Catholic Church and

European communities of

family planning and

female circumcision and

fundamentalism of

Hindus and

religious right and

U.S. communities of

women, treatment of

Italy

Iyengar, Kirti and Sharad

Jain, Amit and Astha

Japan

Jenkins, Philip

John Paul II, Pope

Johnson, Lyndon B.

John X XIII, Pope

Kabir, Sandra

Kaczynski, Jaroslaw

Kaczynski, Lech

Karman, Harvey

Kassindja, Fauziya

Kaur, Gurjit

Keiwua, Dorcas and Santeyian

Kemp-Kasten Amendment

Kennedy, John F.

Kenya

abortion in

Children’s Act

female circumcision in

gag rule, effect in

pro-life movement

Kenyatta, Jomo

Kissinger, Henry

Kissling, Frances

Koenders, Bert

Kono

Kosovo

Krock, Arthur

Lambeth Conference

Latin America.
See also specific countries

law.
See
international law

League of Polish Families

Lebanon

Ledyaev, Alexey

left/leftists

liberals/liberalism

Liberia

Libya

Light, Matthew

Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny

López Trujillo, Alfonso

Lynch, Colum

McClory, Robert

McDonald, Peter

McGovern, George

McNamara, Robert

“Major Resource Awaiting Development, A” (Germain)

Mali

Malta

Malthus, Thomas Robert

Mamas Club

Mantica, Miguel

manual vacuum aspirators

Maputo Protocol

Marie Stopes International

Marx, Paul

Masai, the

maternal mortality

abortion and

in Bangladesh

in India

in Romania

Mauritius

Mayo, Katherine

Mead, Margaret

men

menstrual regulation

Mexico

Mexico City

Midnight’s Children
(Rushdie)

misoprostol

Mistry, Rohinton

modernization.
See
development/modernization

Moore, Hugh

Morales, Harley

Morgan, Kimberly

Mormon church

Morocco, birthrate in

mortality

infant and child

maternal

Mose, Grace

Mosher, Steven

motherhood

Mother India
(Mayo)

Mubarak, Hosni

Mungherera, Lydia

“Murder in the Womb”

Murillo, Rosario

Muslims.
See
Islam/Muslims

Netherlands

Next Christendom, The
(Jenkins)

NGOs .
See also specific organizations

Nicaragua

abortion in

Catholic Church in

evangelical movement in

feminist movement in

international response to abortion ban in

pro-life movement in

proxy battle in

Rosa case in

Sandinistas in

Niger

Nixon, Richard

Norway, birthrate in

Nour, Nawal

Nowicka, Wanda

Nyamu, John

Obama, Barack

Obando y Bravo, Miguel

Ogola, Margaret

Ortega, Daniel

overpopulation

control of.
See
overpopulation, control of

as a myth

as symptom of women’s oppression

overpopulation, control of

environmental movement and

in India

as reason for family planning export

security study on

sex selection and

United Nations on

women’s rights and

Pakistan

Pandya, Pratima

Papua New Guinea

Pareyio, Agnes

Pathfinder

Paul VI, Pope

Peru

Philippines

Piotrow, Phyllis

Pius XI, Pope

Pius XII, Pope

Pivot of Civilization, The
(Sanger)

Planned Parenthood.
See
International Planned Parenthood Federation

Poland

Politi, Marco

Politics of the Womb
(Thomas)

Pontifical Commission for the Study of Population, Family and Births

population

control of.
See
overpopulation, control of

world.
See
world population

Population Bomb, The
(Ehrlich)

Population Bomb, The
(Moore)

Population Council

Population Crisis Committee

population policy, U.S.

backlash against

birth of

coercion in

gag rule, global

Helms amendment and

as male-dominated

Nixon and

racism in

sexism in

vicissitudes of

Population Research Institute

“Population Tribune”

Possessing the Secret of Joy
(Walker)

Potts, Malcolm

Powell, Colin

Prisoners of Ritual
(Lightfoot-Klein)

pro-life movements.
See also specific movements

anticolonialism and

anti-Islam rhetoric of

anti-sex selection activism and

Indian lack of

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