“A shipment of 10 million defective condoms from UNFPA has been seized by the Tanzanian government at the port of Dar es Salaam. The UNFPA condoms failed permeability tests carried out by the Tanzanian Bureau of Standards (in plain English, they leak), and the government
Northern Ireland Population Declining Northern Ireland’s population will begin declining in 20 years, the BBC recently reported. The fertility rate in Northern Ireland has steadily declined to its current all-time low of 1.74, well below the 2.2 needed for replacement. In 1974 the fertility rate
Twenty-one years ago, the first case of AIDS was reported. Since that time, AIDS has become the most devastating disease humankind has ever faced. The World Health Organization has estimated that since the epidemic began, more than 60 million people have been infected with the
The Washington Post reported that President Bush is “heading toward a decision to cut off” all funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). While a final announcement has not yet been made, senior administration officials believe that Bush will permanently withhold the entire $34
Eons ago, when I was an undergraduate a professor told me, “The only thing dark about the ‘dark continent’ is your ignorance of it.” This statement became real to me when I recently spent a month in South Africa surveying women from various ethnic backgrounds
“The nature vs. nurture debate on whether biology or environment causes human beings to choose certain roles and lifestyles is a perennial controversy in sociobiology, but since the seventies the debate has been extended to whether nurture, i.e. culture, can override biology and be a
On February 27, 2002, Nicholas Eberstadt testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on why UNFPA should not be funded by the U.S. government. The transcript of his testimony follows. Madame Chairman, I thought that I might best use my time this afternoon
April 25, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 9 Dear Colleague: More bad news for the world’s chief cheerleader and funder of China’s one-child policy: The government of Tanzania has rejected a boatload of defective UNFPA condoms, and announced that they will be destroyed. Despite this embarrassment,
March 22, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 8 Dear Colleague: PRI’s Global Family Life Conference features several renowned medical professionals. Dr. Joel Brind, whose research has shown a direct link between abortion and breast cancer, will speak. Dr. Stephen Karanja will speak on the AIDS crisis
March 5, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 7 Dear Colleague: This week PRI went toe-to-toe with U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, known for her pro-abortion, anti-natalist views. Boxer had called a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the hope of putting pressure on the Bush
“A shipment of 10 million defective condoms from UNFPA has been seized by the Tanzanian government at the port of Dar es Salaam. The UNFPA
Northern Ireland Population Declining Northern Ireland’s population will begin declining in 20 years, the BBC recently reported. The fertility rate in Northern Ireland has steadily
Twenty-one years ago, the first case of AIDS was reported. Since that time, AIDS has become the most devastating disease humankind has ever faced. The
The Washington Post reported that President Bush is “heading toward a decision to cut off” all funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). While
Eons ago, when I was an undergraduate a professor told me, “The only thing dark about the ‘dark continent’ is your ignorance of it.” This
“The nature vs. nurture debate on whether biology or environment causes human beings to choose certain roles and lifestyles is a perennial controversy in sociobiology,
On February 27, 2002, Nicholas Eberstadt testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on why UNFPA should not be funded by the U.S.
April 25, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 9 Dear Colleague: More bad news for the world’s chief cheerleader and funder of China’s one-child policy: The government
March 22, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 8 Dear Colleague: PRI’s Global Family Life Conference features several renowned medical professionals. Dr. Joel Brind, whose research has
March 5, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 7 Dear Colleague: This week PRI went toe-to-toe with U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, known for her pro-abortion, anti-natalist views.