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Population Growth Is Not Bad for Humanity

Once again there is hysteria about there being too many people and too many babies being born. Television presents notables ranging from the late Andrei Sakharov to Dan Rather repeating that more people on earth mean poorer lives now and worse prospects for the future.

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Reply to Daniel Maguire at ICPD Prepcom 2

At the recent Prepcom 2 meeting for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Azizah al-Hibri, D.D., Ph.D. redefined Islamic beliefs, Dan Maguire, S.T.D. redefined Catholic beliefs and Rev. James B. Martin-Schramm defined Protestant beliefs in order to incorporate population control technologies. PRI Review

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Popcorn

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Philippine Growth Accelerates Weekly A July 12th Reuter ‘s dispatch from Manila stated that the “current population growth rate [of the Philippines] is 2.35 percent a year.” One week later, on July 19, another Reuter ‘s story reported that the

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Global Monitor

USAID and Population Council program endangers Honduran women and children: A Commission of the Honduran Medical Association issued a report on the distribution of the contraceptive mini-pill, Ovrette (Norgestrel), by the Institute of Honduran Social Security (IHSS). The Commission appointees were Dr. Marel de Jesus

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From the Countries

Family life threatened in Singapore Singapore’s Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, speaking at a women’s meeting, the PAP Women’s Wing Event, expressed concern with “trends” which “could weaken the family.” These trends, he said, “were growing worse and could have serious implications for the country

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Family Planning, Human Rights, and the Population Establishment

For much of the twentieth century the prevailing view of human population growth in intellectual circles throughout the Western world has been essentially Malthusian. It has held that an excessively rapid growth rate has an adverse impact on human welfare, especially in the so-called “developing”

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From the Countries

Peruvian amendment to the constitution The Peruvian Commission of Health, Family and Population has proposed an amendment to the constitution. The article states that human life begins at conception and gestation ends at birth. Abortion is to be allowed only under grave circumstances affecting the

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Global Monitor

Iran embraces population controllers In the “News Pile” section of the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s magazine, People & the Planet, Iran is noted as “determined” to “revive the family planning programs suspended in 1978.” IPPF reports that the Iranian government spent $150 million for “population

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Popcorn: Carrying Capacity: Baloney Plus Bigotry

The Carrying Capacity Network (CCN) — which describes itself as “a nonadvocacy group [that] works to increase understanding of the interrelated nature of environmental degradation, population growth, resource conservation, and quality of life issues,” — held its second annual National Carrying Capacity Issues Conference in

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Supply-Side Demography

For more than two decades, population control groups have waged a powerful political and philosophical campaign to advance the proposition that a continued rise in human numbers is one of the world’s gravest problems. Professor Paul Ehrlich wrote a best-selling book in which he described

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Popcorn

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Philippine Growth Accelerates Weekly A July 12th Reuter ‘s dispatch from Manila stated that the “current population growth rate [of

Read More »

Global Monitor

USAID and Population Council program endangers Honduran women and children: A Commission of the Honduran Medical Association issued a report on the distribution of the

Read More »

From the Countries

Family life threatened in Singapore Singapore’s Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, speaking at a women’s meeting, the PAP Women’s Wing Event, expressed concern with “trends”

Read More »

From the Countries

Peruvian amendment to the constitution The Peruvian Commission of Health, Family and Population has proposed an amendment to the constitution. The article states that human

Read More »

Global Monitor

Iran embraces population controllers In the “News Pile” section of the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s magazine, People & the Planet, Iran is noted as “determined”

Read More »

Supply-Side Demography

For more than two decades, population control groups have waged a powerful political and philosophical campaign to advance the proposition that a continued rise in

Read More »