Back in the eighties, when I emerged from the darkness that was China’s one-child policy, I approached Amnesty International (AI). The organization had done much good work over the years advocating for political prisoners, protesting all forms of torture, demanding fair trials, and generally asserting
The Mexico City Policy is under fire in Congress…again. In June, the House of Representatives, at the instigation of Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) voted 223–201 to pass a bill seeking to gut the Mexico City Policy. A Little Background on the Mexico City Policy This
“Rosa” was the name the feminists of the Red de Mujeres Contra la Violencia, or Network of Women Against Violence (WNAV) gave to a 9-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who was raped and became pregnant in the beginning of 2003 in Costa Rica. Accusations laid at the
If asked what function the San Francisco-based Sierra Club performs, most of its 1.3 million members would probably reply “protecting the environment,” or “raising awareness of endangered species,” or words to that effect. Yet, in their 2007 legislative report for Minnesota, the Sierra Club spent
“U.S. funded ‘family planning’ and population control groups have made Latin America a political and cultural battleground over abortion, but a new online video from Population Research institute explains how the organization is educating and mobilizing pro-life advocates to counter effectively the imperialist anti-life agenda
Developed nations continue to be concerned over their aging populations. Now India has joined the ranks of those worrying about the increase in the grays as her numbers of elderly reaches a new high. According to a report published in India Today, one in every
Cheating on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act Abortionists have come up with a new way around the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act — a truly grisly alternative reminding us of the butchery going on in China. A recent Boston Globe article, “Shots assist in
It was a chilly morning, at least for April in Washington, D.C. A line of college students stood, huddled in coats and hats, rubbing the sleep out of our eyes. We stood on a sidewalk along the side of 16th Street in Washington, DC., in
Amnesty International (AI), after years of skirting the issue, has officially come out in favor of abortion. At this year’s annual meeting, held in Mexico City in August, the organization declared that its policy is “to support the decriminalization of abortion, to ensure women have
The environmental story of the year has come out, but the “inconvenient truth”—to borrow a phrase from Al Gore—seems to be more than most environmentalists can handle. In 2005 biologists John Woodling and David Norris carried out a study of fish in Colorado’s Boulder Creek.
Back in the eighties, when I emerged from the darkness that was China’s one-child policy, I approached Amnesty International (AI). The organization had done much
The Mexico City Policy is under fire in Congress…again. In June, the House of Representatives, at the instigation of Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) voted 223–201
“Rosa” was the name the feminists of the Red de Mujeres Contra la Violencia, or Network of Women Against Violence (WNAV) gave to a 9-year-old
If asked what function the San Francisco-based Sierra Club performs, most of its 1.3 million members would probably reply “protecting the environment,” or “raising awareness
“U.S. funded ‘family planning’ and population control groups have made Latin America a political and cultural battleground over abortion, but a new online video from
Developed nations continue to be concerned over their aging populations. Now India has joined the ranks of those worrying about the increase in the grays
Cheating on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act Abortionists have come up with a new way around the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act — a
It was a chilly morning, at least for April in Washington, D.C. A line of college students stood, huddled in coats and hats, rubbing the
Amnesty International (AI), after years of skirting the issue, has officially come out in favor of abortion. At this year’s annual meeting, held in Mexico
The environmental story of the year has come out, but the “inconvenient truth”—to borrow a phrase from Al Gore—seems to be more than most environmentalists