PRI Staff

Did the United States government play a role in the proposed legalization of abortion in Nigeria? There is much to suggest that it did — both directly and indirectly. On 22 August 1991, Nigerian Minister of Health Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, told a press conference in Lagos

Dr. Geraldo Hideu Osanai is a well-known Brazilian physician and author. The Reuter News Agency stated on 13 November 1991 that “More than 400,000 women die each year in Brazil from botched abortions” and that “more than four million abortions were carried out every year,

Gratis to Nigeria from UNFPA Lagos reports that the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) will provide Nigeria with about 35 million U.S. dollars to help finance population activities in that country, “the most populous in Africa,” during the 1992–1996 period. Out of the

The Dying West The Western World’s diminished population can be expected to limit the economic well-being of the western nations. Shrinking populations do not provide for economic growth. The imbalance of economic opportunity and control over world resources, as they currently exist, will not continue.

WORLDWATCH WOLF KEEPS CRYING Lester R. Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute and long-time global food supply doomsayer, was quoted at length by The Wall Street Journal, 19 December 1991, p. A10, in an article headlined “Severe Famine in East Africa and Iraq, Food Shortages

Fernando Orrego is a member of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile. In the context of a very bleak future, a recent report1 by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) on world population is full of errors, strongly biased

Medical marketing is the art of promoting and pandering pharmaceutical drugs to doctors. The so-called “licit” drug sector spends more money doing this than researching its products. This may explain, in part, why relatively little money is devoted to following up on the countless harmful

Good News/Bad News The Good News: a nine-year international study, funded by the Agency for International Development (AID) and executed by Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of Columbia, MD, joyfully reported that fertility in the developing world has declined sharply in the past two decades.

The U.S. House of Representatives, Committee of Government Operations, has called for Congressional hearings on A.I.D. A report on the agency’s finances is presently being prepared by the U.S. Government Accounting Organization. During the first week of December, millions of television viewers saw evidence of

by Jean M. Guilfoyle “Thou shalt not kill.” “The United States does not consider abortion an acceptable element of family planning programs and will no longer contribute to those of which it is a part. Accordingly, when dealing with nations which support abortion with funds