Women in the developing world feel trapped between the Pope and the profit, said Farida Akhter, a women’s activist from Bangladesh. “They admire the Pope’s recognition that development is not conditional on population but many disagree with his opposition to all contraception and all abortion.
Possibly tainted vaccine may be tip of the iceberg Philippine women may have been unwittingly vaccinated against their own children, a recent study conducted by the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) has indicated.1 The study tested random samples of a tetanus vaccine for the presence of
Editors note: We print the following article, written by a Chinese professor of forensic medicine, not because we endorse the ideas it contains. Our motivation is the opposite: We have allowed Dr. Xiong Ping to vent his views in this publication precisely because we find
More than 300 Mexican women have documented their experiences with forced sterilization at the hands of Mexican population controllers, and an activist group claims to have gathered evidence of “thousands” more. “Women are being trampled. Their rights are being trampled,” said Jorge Serrano Limon, director
Help for teachers Dear PRI, I read about the Population Research Institute in October 1994, and I wonder if you would be able to help me. I teach argumentative writing in English to college-level Polish students who are preparing to be teachers of the English
Fertility worldwide continues to fall On October 8 the U.S. Bureau of the Census released its biannual population report, World Population Profile: 1996 . As always in recent years, the report and its accompanying news release emphasized the growth in population that is expected over
The United States has spent more than $1 billion since 1990 to buy, test, store, ship and deliver contraceptive and abortifacient devices through a cluster of quasi-governmental organizations, an analysis of documents from the U.S. Agency for International Development revealed recently. The document review makes
More dead mothers? The ink was scarcely dry on the recent UNICEF-WHO report alleging that the worldwide maternal mortality toll was 585,000 deaths yearly1 — a figure substantially higher than the previous long-held number of 500,000 deaths — when the hype began to further inflate
By tapping into an immense reservoir of blocked corporate cash, American policy-makers hope to assure vast and growing reserves of capital with which to tackle the “problem” of African, Asian, and Latin American populations that happen to be growing much faster than those in the
Don’t put anything on the World Wide Web that you wouldn’t want to see appear in the following day’s New York Times . This commonsense axiom is so widely accepted and practiced that the unsuspecting surfer is stunned by the unexpected candor of the U.S.
Women in the developing world feel trapped between the Pope and the profit, said Farida Akhter, a women’s activist from Bangladesh. “They admire the Pope’s
Possibly tainted vaccine may be tip of the iceberg Philippine women may have been unwittingly vaccinated against their own children, a recent study conducted by
Editors note: We print the following article, written by a Chinese professor of forensic medicine, not because we endorse the ideas it contains. Our motivation
More than 300 Mexican women have documented their experiences with forced sterilization at the hands of Mexican population controllers, and an activist group claims to
Help for teachers Dear PRI, I read about the Population Research Institute in October 1994, and I wonder if you would be able to help
Fertility worldwide continues to fall On October 8 the U.S. Bureau of the Census released its biannual population report, World Population Profile: 1996 . As
The United States has spent more than $1 billion since 1990 to buy, test, store, ship and deliver contraceptive and abortifacient devices through a cluster
More dead mothers? The ink was scarcely dry on the recent UNICEF-WHO report alleging that the worldwide maternal mortality toll was 585,000 deaths yearly1 —
By tapping into an immense reservoir of blocked corporate cash, American policy-makers hope to assure vast and growing reserves of capital with which to tackle
Don’t put anything on the World Wide Web that you wouldn’t want to see appear in the following day’s New York Times . This commonsense