From the Countries

Pro-Family Spain Fights Homosexuality

As the Spanish birthrate plummets to one of the lowest in Europe, the Spanish Socialist government has brought before parliament a bill to legalize homosexual marriage and homosexual parenting.

But Spanish pro-family groups of many religions and different cultural backgrounds are gathering to fight the proposal. The Spanish Forum on the Family (Foro Espanol de la Familia) has started an effort to demonstrate against the proposal and in defense of children and marriage rights.

Collaborating in the fight are many Spanish groups, including Federacion Espanola de Familias Numerosas, FAPACE, E-Cristians, Pacto por los Derechos y Libertades, HazteOir.org, Asociacion Catolica de Propagandistas, Instituto de Politica Familiar, Plataforma Civica en Defensa y Promocion de la Familia, Federacién Espanola de Asociaciones Provida (Prolife Spain), Instituto de Inieiativas de Orientacion Familiar, Union Familiar Espanola, Grup d’Entitats Catalanas de la Familia, Asocacion de Familias Numerosas de Madrid, The Imam from Madrid Mosque, The Jewish Communities of Spain, The Federation of Evangelical Religious Organisations and the Greek Orthodox Cathedral Vicary in Madrid.

See the Source: Lola Velarde, Commissioned Vice President for the European Network Institute for Family Policies, 12 May 2005

EU Dying

The European Union (EU) is finding itself fast dying. Today, only Malta and Cyprus have reproductive birthrates.

The changes in demographic numbers will cause great problems for all EU countries as 18 million fewer people under 65 years are left to care for 52.3% more people over 65 by 2030.

Suggestions of people working longer and lowering retirement programs will not fix the problem. Social changes will be needed as well to increase birthrates — a problem not easily remedied.

See the Source: “Malta and Cyprus only have a growing population in EU,” MaltaMediaNews, 20 March 2005, http://www.maltamedia.com/news/2005/eu/article/_5461.shmtl

Population Reference Bureau And The U.S. Census

One sign that the population control establishment is becoming more subdued, at least in its demographic projections, comes from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB).

PRB has long been part of the population control establishment. In the past, it has consistently inflated the numbers for world population, giving unreasonably large numbers for individual countries and exaggerated future growth rates.

Yet in the last PRB report, the numbers were close to those used by the U.S. Census Bureau. The PRB’s 2004 World Population Data Sheet numbers were pretty much in concert with those of the Census Bureau. At times they were even lower. Some of the differences may be accounted for simply by the different times when the data was collected, but the numbers for Pakistan and Indonesia seem to conflict beyond any natural difference in the data.