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The effort to import the French abortion pill, RU-486, to the United States has bogged down in a swamp of lawsuits and counter-suits which may delay the pill’s US release more than a year, advocates admitted recently. Litigation began after the pill’s chief US proponent,

A letter from a fan Surely there aren’t people in this World that are this self-centered and shortsighted as to believe the crap on these [PRI Website] pages. Certainly nobody really believes that God put us here to pave this green earth, cut down the

The sharp slowdown in world population growth, disclosed in the US Census Bureau’s World Population Profile: 1996, and reported on in a previous issue of this Review,1 has received new confirmation in the just released World Population Prospects2 report of the United Nations’ Population Division.

Lester Brown, President of the Worldwatch Institute and professional alarmist, simply cannot admit he is wrong. At November’s Food Summit, Brown once again warned of imminent food shortages and impending disaster unless families worldwide stop having babies. What is needed, he claimed, is for all

In Betrayal of Science and Reason,1 the latest overpopulation polemic from Paul and Anne Ehrlich one finds the following regarding future prospects for agricultural production: More ominous, perhaps, is the possible impact of global climate change on agricultural ecosystems. Rapid climate change could deliver the

The UN Food and Agriculture Association’s (FAO’s) World Food Summit began with the announcement that the summit’s Rome Declaration and Plan of Action had already been decided upon at the summit’s preparatory meetings. This reduced the official Summit’s five days to a largely pointless exercise

New NGO to use UN as marketing tool In what may be the first instance of a looming trend, the manufacturer of the first ever female condom has set up a non-profit foundation to both market its product in the developing world and to employ

Like many children of the Fifties, it has taken me a long time to overcome my residual feelings of good will for the United Nations. Initiated by my own country to be a force for good in the world, the UN was going to ensure

With the conclusion of the recent Food Summit, in Rome 13–17 November, the United Nations (UN) has consolidated its position as the world’s largest and most systematically anti-natalist organization. Armed with “‘plans of action” from each of this decade’s other major global summits, UN bureaucrats

Women in the developing world feel trapped between the Pope and the profit, said Farida Akhter, a women’s activist from Bangladesh. “They admire the Pope’s recognition that development is not conditional on population but many disagree with his opposition to all contraception and all abortion.