A recent study published in the British Medical Journal has found that laws that restrict or prevent abortion do not lead to higher maternal mortality rates. In fact, the study, based on recent data from Mexico, showed precisely the opposite: higher maternal mortality rates were
From The Countries Hispanic Family Size in USA Shrinking While Hispanic immigrants are presently helping to bolster the U.S. birthrate, the long tradition of large Hispanic families may fast be becoming a thing of the past. Hispanic couples are starting to follow the lead
My guess is that you, gentle reader, will be as astonished as we were by the top-of-the-website New York Times article discrediting the population alarmism of the past fifty years. In “The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion” the newspaper has finally (several decades too late)
In Paul Ehrlich’s crude fantasy, The Population Bomb, “compulsory birth regulation” was to be achieved by polluting the water supply with “mass sterilizing agents.” But more sophisticated population controllers dreamed of a contraceptive vaccine that would, with the stick of a needle, sterilize women for years,
You know a contraceptive drug or device is in trouble when the lawsuits begin to multiply. A growing number of American women are turning to intrauterine devices (IUDs), reports Lawrence Finer of the Guttmacher Institute. Of all American women using birth control, some 7.5 percent
Sergio Burga, a young researcher who works out of our Latin American office, has just spent three tumultuous days at the UN's so-called World Youth Conference. Here is his first-hand report. Vol. 12/No. 24 PRI's Sergio Burga, providing on-the-scene, in-depth coverage from Mexico as the
Hmmm. This conference, and its related International Year of Youth, bear an uncanny resemblance to a certain tradition that the Catholic Church has been practicing since 1986: World Youth Day. World Youth Day, Rome, 2000. Take, for instance, the UN’s latest initiative, aimed at the
Latin America has many problems, but these seem to be taking a back seat to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s full-throated promotion of abortion and other leftist causes. Vol. 12/No. 15 From June 6 to June 8 of this year, Member States of the Organization
The abortion movement has created a new class of victims: Pregnant pubescent girls who are being used to justify “therapeutic” abortion. Vol. 12/No. 12 There is no tragedy that the abortion movement does not seek to turn to its own advantage. Consider the case
Abortion advocates say condoms will cure teen pregnancy, but a leading gynecologist argues they ignore the root cause. Vol. 12/No. 10 “Every minute a woman dies from maternal causes,” proclaimed Dr. Yves Bergevin of the UNFPA, as he took the podium on the opening day
A recent study published in the British Medical Journal has found that laws that restrict or prevent abortion do not lead to higher maternal mortality
From The Countries Hispanic Family Size in USA Shrinking While Hispanic immigrants are presently helping to bolster the U.S. birthrate, the long tradition of
My guess is that you, gentle reader, will be as astonished as we were by the top-of-the-website New York Times article discrediting the population alarmism
In Paul Ehrlich’s crude fantasy, The Population Bomb, “compulsory birth regulation” was to be achieved by polluting the water supply with “mass sterilizing agents.” But more
You know a contraceptive drug or device is in trouble when the lawsuits begin to multiply. A growing number of American women are turning to
Sergio Burga, a young researcher who works out of our Latin American office, has just spent three tumultuous days at the UN's so-called World Youth
Hmmm. This conference, and its related International Year of Youth, bear an uncanny resemblance to a certain tradition that the Catholic Church has been practicing
Latin America has many problems, but these seem to be taking a back seat to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s full-throated promotion of abortion and
The abortion movement has created a new class of victims: Pregnant pubescent girls who are being used to justify “therapeutic” abortion. Vol. 12/No. 12
Abortion advocates say condoms will cure teen pregnancy, but a leading gynecologist argues they ignore the root cause. Vol. 12/No. 10 “Every minute a woman
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