In an extraordinarily candid article filed with the Associated Press recently, Chinese officials admitted that their coercive one-child policy has not worked across all of China and contended that they will have to do more to make sure that Chinese couples have only one infant
Quinacrine in India Thousands of illiterate women in India and Bangladesh have been used as “guinea-pigs” without their knowledge in unauthorized trials of quinacrine, a derivative of quinine used to perform chemical sterilizations by scaring and burning a woman’s fallopian tubes. Quinacrine, a known mutagen
UN claims pop funds “shortfalls” Shortfalls in promised assistance for third world population planning programs will, according to a report recently released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), result in “at least 120 million additional unwanted pregnancies, 49 million abortions, 5 million deaths of
Ignorant no longer Greetings, I just received your complimentary copy of the Population Research Institute Review Wow! I must confess that I was fairly ignorant of the extent of the US government involvement in the population control of other nations. While I was glad to
Ask most Americans what they imagine behind the word “bureaucracy” and you are liable to hear about long dreary halls with nondescript doors and unfriendly and unhelpful people behind them. Some Americans will recount their latest frustrating trip to their local Division of Motor Vehicles
1996 harvest keeps increasing The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture reports on world grain production, just released in mid-April,1 boosted the 1996- 97 harvest figures above those reported previously in this column.2 The new statistics indicate that the 1996-97 world’s grain harvests totaled to more
By and large, human beings in industrialized societies live in post-literate worlds. Now, in place of words, which tend to hold a more objective meaning, post-modern society uses images to make its arguments. Images speak to us at a different level than do words, a
The Institute for Development Training seems to believe women should be sterilized, chemically if necessary, in the name of Christ. Incorporated in North Carolina in 1981, IDT has become the latest group to push quinacrine hydrochloride as a method of sterilizing women. This controversial procedure
Editor’s note: Population control is literally and figuratively dehumanizing. In India, thousands of women are being herded into mass sterilization camps, where surgeons mutilate their reproductive organs in assembly line-fashion under unsanitary conditions, sometimes using bicycle pumps as medical instruments, and where mortality rates reach
Ali pulls a rickshaw in Dhaka, the fast-growing main city in Bangladesh. He left his wife and four children in Haimchar village three years ago to pursue this economic opportunity. Sharing a 6-by-10 foot shanty with a street vendor, he is better off than the
In an extraordinarily candid article filed with the Associated Press recently, Chinese officials admitted that their coercive one-child policy has not worked across all of
Quinacrine in India Thousands of illiterate women in India and Bangladesh have been used as “guinea-pigs” without their knowledge in unauthorized trials of quinacrine, a
UN claims pop funds “shortfalls” Shortfalls in promised assistance for third world population planning programs will, according to a report recently released by the United
Ignorant no longer Greetings, I just received your complimentary copy of the Population Research Institute Review Wow! I must confess that I was fairly ignorant
Ask most Americans what they imagine behind the word “bureaucracy” and you are liable to hear about long dreary halls with nondescript doors and unfriendly
1996 harvest keeps increasing The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture reports on world grain production, just released in mid-April,1 boosted the 1996- 97 harvest figures
By and large, human beings in industrialized societies live in post-literate worlds. Now, in place of words, which tend to hold a more objective meaning,
The Institute for Development Training seems to believe women should be sterilized, chemically if necessary, in the name of Christ. Incorporated in North Carolina in
Editor’s note: Population control is literally and figuratively dehumanizing. In India, thousands of women are being herded into mass sterilization camps, where surgeons mutilate their
Ali pulls a rickshaw in Dhaka, the fast-growing main city in Bangladesh. He left his wife and four children in Haimchar village three years ago