IN WHAT amounts to an admission that friendly persuasion is not working in its campaign to kill the reproductive health bills now pending in Congress, some quarters in the Roman Catholic Church are now advocating that legislators who support the bills sho

MANILA, Philippines - Priests say that the Reproductive Health Bill will rob the country of our greatest resource. Archbishop Paciano B. Ancieto, the chairman of the Episcopal Commission on Family and Life of the Catholic Bishops" Conference of the Phili

"The United Nations Foundation joins the international community in expressing its deep disappointment that the administration has decided - for the seventh, straight year - to withhold the $39.7 million authorized by Congress to the United Nations Popul

MANILA, Philippines - After Manila, the archdioceses of Pampanga and Cebu also launched over the weekend their own signature drive against the reproductive health bill now pending at the House of Representatives.

Depression in pregnant women could help explain the growing problem of preterm delivery. While post-partum depression ''has long been recognized as a serious public health problem,'' Kaiser Permanente researchers write in the journal Human Reproductio