The allegation that Americans and other first-world citizens consume “too great” a proportion of the world’s resources fires the general imagination. Opinion, ranging from popular to the academic, maintains that Americans and citizens of other industrialized countries not only consume too great a percentage of
How about some malaria control? Among population control’s many are the ways in which it undermines vital health care efforts. Recently, the Atlantic Monthly published an article detailing how the malarial war is being fought — and lost — around the world. Included was this
Wipeout of polio nears Although overpopulation propagandists seldom give humankind any credit for improving things on the planet, another great success is at hand in man’s constant battle against disease: the ultimate eradication of polio. According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization
The changing of the leadership in the US Congress, from the Democratic to the Republican parties, has led to changes in the order of business. No longer will Congress fund US foreign aid programs, including those of USAID, without examination. This new, tighter-fisted Congressional regime
No apology for quinacrine pushers Dear Editor, The following statement was provided to me by Kenneth Zorgdrager, the RCA (Reformed Church in America) supervisor for Asia and the Pacific: The RCA has supported Dr. Charles Ausherman for fifteen years in our concern for women’s health
ZPG solution: back to the past In a recent edition of The ZPG Reporter,1 the bimonthly publication of Zero Population Growth, a guest editorial by ZPG board member Mike Hanauer proposed a preposterous solution to the alleged problems of “overpopulation” in the United States. Hanauer,
A front page Washington Post story in 1994 provides additional evidence of the miserable conditions under which India’s female sterilization camps are operated.1 Observing the day’s activities at one sterilization camp in Sarsawa, India — held in a schoolhouse which had been cleared of its
An historic — though little noticed — legislative effort took place in the hectic days prior to Congress taking its August recess this year. Congressman Joseph Pitts, a freshman Republican lawmaker from Pennsylvania’s 16th District, drafted and tried to introduce an amendment to this year’s
Editor’s Note: In the last issue James Miller revealed how women were sterilized in industrial fashion in one sterilization factory in India. Now he will recount what happens at similar camps throughout the country. As we noted previously, population control is literally and figuratively dehumanizing.
Although the Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union are among the least tensely populated places on earth, US taxpayers, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), have spent tens of millions of dollars over the last five years to contracept and
The allegation that Americans and other first-world citizens consume “too great” a proportion of the world’s resources fires the general imagination. Opinion, ranging from popular
How about some malaria control? Among population control’s many are the ways in which it undermines vital health care efforts. Recently, the Atlantic Monthly published
Wipeout of polio nears Although overpopulation propagandists seldom give humankind any credit for improving things on the planet, another great success is at hand in
The changing of the leadership in the US Congress, from the Democratic to the Republican parties, has led to changes in the order of business.
No apology for quinacrine pushers Dear Editor, The following statement was provided to me by Kenneth Zorgdrager, the RCA (Reformed Church in America) supervisor for
ZPG solution: back to the past In a recent edition of The ZPG Reporter,1 the bimonthly publication of Zero Population Growth, a guest editorial by
A front page Washington Post story in 1994 provides additional evidence of the miserable conditions under which India’s female sterilization camps are operated.1 Observing the
An historic — though little noticed — legislative effort took place in the hectic days prior to Congress taking its August recess this year. Congressman
Editor’s Note: In the last issue James Miller revealed how women were sterilized in industrial fashion in one sterilization factory in India. Now he will
Although the Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union are among the least tensely populated places on earth, US taxpayers, through the United States