Western Europe

The Synod on the Family Meets in Rome

As the Extraordinary Synod on the Family begins its deliberations in Rome, the media propaganda has subsided as the issues truly important to the faithful have come to the fore. While the Church’s teachings on the Sacrament of marriage are timeless, the challenges to these

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Germany to shrink by 10 million people by 2050

In 2003, I was in middle school. I had just started to envision a future for myself—one that involved traveling. In high school I began to realize my dream: I went abroad and spent several days in Germany. I learned firsthand that Germany was an

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Babies by Remote Control

My long-time English friend, Ann Farmer, has just sent me an interesting article from The Telegraph (London), which tells how all of Scotland is rejoicing at the prospective pregnancy of a captive giant panda. Tests indicate that the female, named Tian Tian (“sweetie”), has conceived

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Why Normal People Should Care About “Baby Busts”

Long, long ago, when Anne’s parents were in college (sorry, mom and dad), demographers made an observation: they saw that for most of human history, even though couples were having far more than two children, mortality was also very high. The result was that populations

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PRI’s video breaks 1,000,000 views: Influences Taiwan

Population Research Institute’s video reached 1,000,000 views over the weekend. The video, which illustrates the mechanism of the morning after pill, has been       viewed over 450,000 times in Taiwan. Taiwan is calculated to perform about 400,000 abortions per year, an enormous number for a country which witnesses less than 200,000 births a year. PRI believes the popularity of the pro-life

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Will Spain Abolish Abortion?

Even before Spain’s Socialist government declared abortion a women’s “right” in 2010, Spain had become known as the abortion capital of Europe. Although abortions are supposedly allowed only up to 14 weeks, this limitation is widely ignored, and women travel there from  all over the continent for

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Open response to: “Overpopulation: Should America have a one-child policy?

Last Tuesday, the Washington Times published an article by Joseph Cotto entitled, “Overpopulation: Should America have a one-child policy?” Despite the provocative title, the article does not present a stimulating thought-experiment, but rather a series of half-truths and inconsistencies with dangerous implications. Because such half-truths

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Debunking the Myth of Overpopulation

We are contacted all the time by people asking for how they can refute the arguments that the world is overpopulated, so we have decided to create a short primer called “How to Debunk the Myth of Overpopulation in Three Easy Steps.” Before we start,

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Marie Stopes and the Charade of “Post-Abortion Care”

Americans may not have heard the name, Marie Stopes, but she is a household name in Britain.  The organization named after her is active in dozens of countries around the globe, including in former British colonies like Kenya and other developing countries like Madagascar.  And

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Babies by Remote Control

My long-time English friend, Ann Farmer, has just sent me an interesting article from The Telegraph (London), which tells how all of Scotland is rejoicing

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PRI’s video breaks 1,000,000 views: Influences Taiwan

Population Research Institute’s video reached 1,000,000 views over the weekend. The video, which illustrates the mechanism of the morning after pill, has been       viewed over 450,000 times in Taiwan. Taiwan is calculated to perform about 400,000 abortions per year, an

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Will Spain Abolish Abortion?

Even before Spain’s Socialist government declared abortion a women’s “right” in 2010, Spain had become known as the abortion capital of Europe. Although abortions are supposedly allowed

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