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Regarding World Population Prospects

March 23, 2001 Volume 3/ Number 9 Dear Colleague: The United Nations Population Division issued World Population Prospects, The 2000 Revision on February 28 inciting another chorus of doom and gloom by population control fanatics. Yet under population, not overpopulation, is our long-term problem. Steven

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UNFPA Never at a Loss to Promote Population Control

March 16, 2001 Volume 3/ Number 8 Dear Colleague: Disregarding El Salvador’s constitution and the immediate needs of its people, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has opted to supply abortifacient contraceptives rather than food and water to Salvadorian earthquake victims. Steven W. Mosher President

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Wrongheaded Policy

March 8, 2001 Volume 3/ Number 7  Dear Colleague: ABC News reported last night that the number of people infected with HIV in Africa has reached 25 million. Over 14 million people have died and millions of children have been orphaned. Yet our top foreign

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A "Stick" in Time Saves Nine

March 2, 2001 Volume 3/ Number 6  Dear Colleague: The misguided search for an anti-pregnancy vaccine continues, at the University of Virginia and elsewhere, in order to cope with “overpopulation” in the world’s less-developed countries. China is an eager collaborator with the U.S. National Institutes

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Their Appointed Rounds

February 14,2001 Volume 3/ Number 5  Dear Colleague: On February 15th the population controllers are slated to receive an additional $40 million for “population stabilization” (on top of the US Agency for International Development’s current $385 million budget), unless President Bush intervenes. Recent evidence from

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The Dawn of a Perfect Family Planning Policy

February 6, 2001 Volume 3/ Number 4 Dear Colleague: The Wall Street Journal has reported that China is “easing [its] once-brutal policy on family planning.” We believe that the changes are principally cosmetic, masking an underlying reality of coercion and intimidation. Steven W. Mosher President 

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Two Cheers for the Mexico City Policy

January 26, 2001 Volume 3/ Number 3  Dear Colleague: With the news of President Bush reinstating the Mexico City Policy, pro-abortion activists are claiming it is a "gag rule," unduly restricting their prerogative to fund and promote the practice of abortion in developing countries. It is,

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It Is Time for USAID to Go

January 2001 Volume 3/ Number 2  Dear Colleague: Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) has called for the elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development and its replacement by an International Development Foundation that would make block grants to faith-based and private-sector organizations. We concur. Steven

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America’s Blessings

January 8, 2001  Volume 3/ Number 1 Dear Colleague: Americans are healthier, wealthier, and more numerous than ever before, the latest census shows, yet the population control movement, in the name of a false environmentalism, continues to demand that we cut back our numbers. Steven W.

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A Stick in Time Saves Nine: Anti-Pregnancy Vaccines in Our Future?

In Paul Ehrlich’s crude fantasy, The Population Bomb, “compulsory birth regulation” was to be achieved by polluting the water supply with “mass sterilizing agents.”1 More sophisticated population controllers dreamed of a contraceptive vaccine that would, with the stick of a needle, sterilize women (or men)

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Wrongheaded Policy

March 8, 2001 Volume 3/ Number 7  Dear Colleague: ABC News reported last night that the number of people infected with HIV in Africa has

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A "Stick" in Time Saves Nine

March 2, 2001 Volume 3/ Number 6  Dear Colleague: The misguided search for an anti-pregnancy vaccine continues, at the University of Virginia and elsewhere, in

Read More »

Their Appointed Rounds

February 14,2001 Volume 3/ Number 5  Dear Colleague: On February 15th the population controllers are slated to receive an additional $40 million for “population stabilization”

Read More »

It Is Time for USAID to Go

January 2001 Volume 3/ Number 2  Dear Colleague: Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) has called for the elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development and

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America’s Blessings

January 8, 2001  Volume 3/ Number 1 Dear Colleague: Americans are healthier, wealthier, and more numerous than ever before, the latest census shows, yet the population

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