Christmas inspires us to reflection; New Year’s to resolution. We are called to reflect on the successes and setbacks of the year ending; we gird ourselves for new challenges in the year to come. The year now ending marked Population Research Institute’s coming of age
The non-governmental organization Women and Children first reported in January that a Philippine legislator has introduced a bill which would make abortion legal in that predominantly and strongly Catholic nation. According to the report, Representative Casimiro Padilla, from Carnarines Norte, introduced the legislation, but abortion
Public hospitals in Ecuador have begun “routinely” giving out the so-called “morning after” pills to Ecuadorian women Local and international media reports imply that the Health Ministry of Ecuador is backing away from the definition of pregnancy as beginning at conception. According to media reports
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent Stephen W. Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security and chief advocate of quinacrine sterilization worldwide, a detailed “warning letter.” The agency requested that Mumford and the Center “immediately halt all distribution
Developed population drops but many eat better despite “crowding” The Depopulation of Japan The Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOJCFP) wrote in a recent issue of JOICFP News that the most recent figures on Japan’s birthrate are a “cause for concern.” Unlike
Anti-Faith Showing? Officials with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) removed a controversial link from its website after a UN monitoring group called attention to it. The link, to an international feminist organization called the Center for Population and Development Activities (CEDPA), contained a series
This month Elizabeth Liagin concludes her remarkable history of the US government’s attack upon traditional Nigerian cultural and family life With nearly one third of sub-Saharan Africa’s population, Nigeria is crucial to US foreign operations on the continent. Spotty fertility reductions that have occurred in
I joined the American Anthropological Association in 1978 while a graduate student at Stanford University. Impressed by the anthropologists’ concern for native peoples, and thinking that I was going to make the study of man my profession, I paid out $1,000 for a life membership.
Future historians may declare the embrace of childlessness and the small family to be one of the twentieth century’s defining elements. Yet while the percentage of people choosing only one, two or no children may have reached its high point in the contemporary developed world,
Balmy late-November, early December weather along the Eastern Seaboard prompted the jocular question, “So, how about this global warming?” The riposte throughout the northern Great Plains was, “So, where is the global warming?” as residents dug out from under early blizzards and endured sub-zero temperatures.
Christmas inspires us to reflection; New Year’s to resolution. We are called to reflect on the successes and setbacks of the year ending; we gird
The non-governmental organization Women and Children first reported in January that a Philippine legislator has introduced a bill which would make abortion legal in that
Public hospitals in Ecuador have begun “routinely” giving out the so-called “morning after” pills to Ecuadorian women Local and international media reports imply that the
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent Stephen W. Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security and chief advocate
Developed population drops but many eat better despite “crowding” The Depopulation of Japan The Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOJCFP) wrote in
Anti-Faith Showing? Officials with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) removed a controversial link from its website after a UN monitoring group called attention to
This month Elizabeth Liagin concludes her remarkable history of the US government’s attack upon traditional Nigerian cultural and family life With nearly one third of
I joined the American Anthropological Association in 1978 while a graduate student at Stanford University. Impressed by the anthropologists’ concern for native peoples, and thinking
Future historians may declare the embrace of childlessness and the small family to be one of the twentieth century’s defining elements. Yet while the percentage
Balmy late-November, early December weather along the Eastern Seaboard prompted the jocular question, “So, how about this global warming?” The riposte throughout the northern Great