Asia

From the Countries: The Philippines and Contraception

From the mouths of the experts, we have evidence of the link between contraception and abortion. A recent (2003) research report called “Relationships Between Contraception and Abortion: A Review of the Evidence” concluded that “contraceptive prevalence and the incidence of abortion can and, indeed, often

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Global Monitor: World on Course to Self-Destruction

Bishop Elio Sgreccia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, recently told a group of journalists meeting at the University of Saint Paul in Abuja, Nigeria, that the world is “marching toward a self-genocide of the human race” with their irresponsible use of biotechnologies and

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Eunuchs for the Green Kingdom

2 February 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 5 Dear Colleague: Environmentalists want even sparsely-populated countries with already low birthrates to have even fewer children.  What could be their goal? Steven W. Mosher President Eunuchs for the Green Kingdom A short while ago, a "deep green" group

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For the Record…

“Human Events writer and Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute Joseph A. D’Agostino calls the UNFPA blitz in Mongolia, which has a dramatically falling birthrate, now at only 2.3 children per woman, as a ‘kinder, gentler genocide,’ comparing it to the one-child

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Global Monitor

Pro-Life Portuguese Fight Abortion Legalization In Portugal, the pro-abortion forces managed to prompt a new referendum on abortion. Portuguese pro-lifers are under the most massive attack ever with a coalition of-political parties fighting against them. The anti-lifers have gone so far as to hire a

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Motherless Russia

“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments,” wrote Chekhov in a letter to a friend. Now, Russia suffers from a destructive poverty of a sort that she has not in

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The Many Faces of China’s Enigmatic President

Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era by Willy Wo-lap Lam (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007), 359 pp., $29.95 Reviewed by Steven W. Mosher “Who is the President of China?” the late-night talk show hosts joked with their audiences when a Communist cadre by the

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Fighting for Life In Taiwan

Father Louis Aldrich, S.J. directs the Human Life Ethics Research center in Taiwan. The center is located on the campus of Fu-Jen Catholic University near the capital, Taipei. PRI President Steven Mosher was recently in Taiwan to film a segment of his EWTN series, and

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Global Monitor

More Sex Ed or Abstinence Promotion for British Schoolchildren A recent report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), Britain’s leading progressive think tank, says that schoolchildren in England as young as 10 years of age should be instructed in use of contraceptives. Why?

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Eunuchs for the Green Kingdom

2 February 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 5 Dear Colleague: Environmentalists want even sparsely-populated countries with already low birthrates to have even fewer children.  What could

Read More »

For the Record…

“Human Events writer and Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute Joseph A. D’Agostino calls the UNFPA blitz in Mongolia, which has a

Read More »

Global Monitor

Pro-Life Portuguese Fight Abortion Legalization In Portugal, the pro-abortion forces managed to prompt a new referendum on abortion. Portuguese pro-lifers are under the most massive

Read More »

Motherless Russia

“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments,” wrote Chekhov in

Read More »

Fighting for Life In Taiwan

Father Louis Aldrich, S.J. directs the Human Life Ethics Research center in Taiwan. The center is located on the campus of Fu-Jen Catholic University near

Read More »

Global Monitor

More Sex Ed or Abstinence Promotion for British Schoolchildren A recent report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), Britain’s leading progressive think tank,

Read More »