The place of Thomas Malthus in popular thought and language comes from his insistence that unchecked human populations would increase geometrically, while the available food Supply Could only increase arithmetically. The Malthusian threat that population growth supposedly presented to the world’s food supplies was the
Five years ago the Member States of the United Nations convened an enormous international conference in Cairo, Egypt on the subject of population and development. No need to retell that story here, except to say that it will rank as a major battlefield in what
Introduction Since the early 1960's, the United States has been giving money to organizations that run "voluntary family planning" programs around the world. However, these programs have not always been as "voluntary" as the words "voluntary family planning" might suggest. These programs have often harmed
The non-governmental organization Women and Children first reported in January that a Philippine legislator has introduced a bill which would make abortion legal in that predominantly and strongly Catholic nation. According to the report, Representative Casimiro Padilla, from Carnarines Norte, introduced the legislation, but abortion
Public hospitals in Ecuador have begun “routinely” giving out the so-called “morning after” pills to Ecuadorian women Local and international media reports imply that the Health Ministry of Ecuador is backing away from the definition of pregnancy as beginning at conception. According to media reports
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent Stephen W. Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security and chief advocate of quinacrine sterilization worldwide, a detailed “warning letter.” The agency requested that Mumford and the Center “immediately halt all distribution
Developed population drops but many eat better despite “crowding” The Depopulation of Japan The Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOJCFP) wrote in a recent issue of JOICFP News that the most recent figures on Japan’s birthrate are a “cause for concern.” Unlike
Anti-Faith Showing? Officials with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) removed a controversial link from its website after a UN monitoring group called attention to it. The link, to an international feminist organization called the Center for Population and Development Activities (CEDPA), contained a series
This month Elizabeth Liagin concludes her remarkable history of the US government’s attack upon traditional Nigerian cultural and family life With nearly one third of sub-Saharan Africa’s population, Nigeria is crucial to US foreign operations on the continent. Spotty fertility reductions that have occurred in
I joined the American Anthropological Association in 1978 while a graduate student at Stanford University. Impressed by the anthropologists’ concern for native peoples, and thinking that I was going to make the study of man my profession, I paid out $1,000 for a life membership.
The place of Thomas Malthus in popular thought and language comes from his insistence that unchecked human populations would increase geometrically, while the available food
Five years ago the Member States of the United Nations convened an enormous international conference in Cairo, Egypt on the subject of population and development.
Introduction Since the early 1960's, the United States has been giving money to organizations that run "voluntary family planning" programs around the world. However, these
The non-governmental organization Women and Children first reported in January that a Philippine legislator has introduced a bill which would make abortion legal in that
Public hospitals in Ecuador have begun “routinely” giving out the so-called “morning after” pills to Ecuadorian women Local and international media reports imply that the
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent Stephen W. Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security and chief advocate
Developed population drops but many eat better despite “crowding” The Depopulation of Japan The Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOJCFP) wrote in
Anti-Faith Showing? Officials with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) removed a controversial link from its website after a UN monitoring group called attention to
This month Elizabeth Liagin concludes her remarkable history of the US government’s attack upon traditional Nigerian cultural and family life With nearly one third of
I joined the American Anthropological Association in 1978 while a graduate student at Stanford University. Impressed by the anthropologists’ concern for native peoples, and thinking