PRI Staff

From the Countries

China’s “twilight” girls and other anti-female practices: Millions of first or second born females in China are known as “twilight girls,” because they are “hidden from authorities, unknown to hospitals, unschooled and often uncared for.” In an article dated 28 August 1993, the South China

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Global Monitor

Population Council testimony: Judith Bruce, a senior associate at the Population Council, offered testimony before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on behalf of increased population control funding. She focused her remarks on “additional avenues the United States might consider to strengthen population policy throughout

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Popcorn: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Mexico City Keeps Shrinking Recently, Parade Magazine, a supplement appearing in hundreds of Sunday papers throughout the United States, carried an “Intelligence Report” column on the world’s “Megacities in the Year 2000.”1 Topping the list was Mexico City, which, according to Parade, would have a

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Population Growth Is Not Bad for Humanity

Once again there is hysteria about there being too many people and too many babies being born. Television presents notables ranging from the late Andrei Sakharov to Dan Rather repeating that more people on earth mean poorer lives now and worse prospects for the future.

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Reply to Daniel Maguire at ICPD Prepcom 2

At the recent Prepcom 2 meeting for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Azizah al-Hibri, D.D., Ph.D. redefined Islamic beliefs, Dan Maguire, S.T.D. redefined Catholic beliefs and Rev. James B. Martin-Schramm defined Protestant beliefs in order to incorporate population control technologies. PRI Review

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Popcorn

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Philippine Growth Accelerates Weekly A July 12th Reuter ‘s dispatch from Manila stated that the “current population growth rate [of the Philippines] is 2.35 percent a year.” One week later, on July 19, another Reuter ‘s story reported that the

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Global Monitor

USAID and Population Council program endangers Honduran women and children: A Commission of the Honduran Medical Association issued a report on the distribution of the contraceptive mini-pill, Ovrette (Norgestrel), by the Institute of Honduran Social Security (IHSS). The Commission appointees were Dr. Marel de Jesus

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From the Countries

Family life threatened in Singapore Singapore’s Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, speaking at a women’s meeting, the PAP Women’s Wing Event, expressed concern with “trends” which “could weaken the family.” These trends, he said, “were growing worse and could have serious implications for the country

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Family Planning, Human Rights, and the Population Establishment

For much of the twentieth century the prevailing view of human population growth in intellectual circles throughout the Western world has been essentially Malthusian. It has held that an excessively rapid growth rate has an adverse impact on human welfare, especially in the so-called “developing”

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From the Countries

Peruvian amendment to the constitution The Peruvian Commission of Health, Family and Population has proposed an amendment to the constitution. The article states that human life begins at conception and gestation ends at birth. Abortion is to be allowed only under grave circumstances affecting the

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From the Countries

China’s “twilight” girls and other anti-female practices: Millions of first or second born females in China are known as “twilight girls,” because they are “hidden

Read More »

Global Monitor

Population Council testimony: Judith Bruce, a senior associate at the Population Council, offered testimony before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on behalf of increased

Read More »

Popcorn

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Philippine Growth Accelerates Weekly A July 12th Reuter ‘s dispatch from Manila stated that the “current population growth rate [of

Read More »

Global Monitor

USAID and Population Council program endangers Honduran women and children: A Commission of the Honduran Medical Association issued a report on the distribution of the

Read More »

From the Countries

Family life threatened in Singapore Singapore’s Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, speaking at a women’s meeting, the PAP Women’s Wing Event, expressed concern with “trends”

Read More »

From the Countries

Peruvian amendment to the constitution The Peruvian Commission of Health, Family and Population has proposed an amendment to the constitution. The article states that human

Read More »