Christmas inspires us to reflection; New Year’s to resolution. We are called to reflect on the successes and setbacks of the year ending; we gird ourselves for new challenges in the year to come. The year now ending marked Population Research Institute’s coming of age
Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women. By A. August Burns, et al. Berkley: Hesperian Foundation, 1997. Reviewed by Eric Retzlaff, RN There’s a saying you hear from time to time that could apply to this book: rat poison is 99 percent
Washington Times readers were treated to a rare spectacle during the last week of October, a battle of dueling advertisements. New York’s Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, joined with Virginia-based Population Research Institute and 31 other groups, to sponsor an advertisement challenging some of
How Big is Your Environmental Footprint? Mention of the Sierra Club brings to mind a nice little environmentalist organization fighting to save the planet from destruction and its inhabitants from extinction. I myself was one of these people, that is, until I took a look
The Tiahrt amendment, legislation which sets strict limits on the types of family planning activities the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) may fund, passed the 105th US Congress and was signed into law by President Clinton on 22 October. The amendment declares many
Almost no comment needed… Before humans infested the planet, the earth was place of balance and perfection. Predator and prey, day and night, summer and winter. Nature’s way is balance. Nature always provides enough wildebeests to feed the lions. And always enough lions to keep
More health care undermined… Dr. Mary Meaney, writing on population issues for Crusade magazine, records a recent trip into Kenya which included the discovery of a Kenyan woman lying by the side of one of the country’s many poor roads. Alarmed by her condition, Mary
In the Spring of 1988, officials with the US Department of State knew they had a problem. For almost 20 years, the US government had tried to build a network of “family planning” services in oil-rich Nigeria, black Africa’s most populous state. And they understood
Thirty years ago, Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich fired the opening salvo in what would soon become a war on people. In the pages of The Population Bomb, he sketched out a frightening scenario of humanity doubling and doubling again, until it was standing room only
The latest population figures are now in. On October 28, the United Nations Population Division (not to be confused with the UN Population Fund) issued its “1998 Revision of the World Population Estimates and Projections.” In a now-familiar exercise, it has sharply revised its population
Christmas inspires us to reflection; New Year’s to resolution. We are called to reflect on the successes and setbacks of the year ending; we gird
Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women. By A. August Burns, et al. Berkley: Hesperian Foundation, 1997. Reviewed by Eric Retzlaff, RN
Washington Times readers were treated to a rare spectacle during the last week of October, a battle of dueling advertisements. New York’s Catholic Family and
How Big is Your Environmental Footprint? Mention of the Sierra Club brings to mind a nice little environmentalist organization fighting to save the planet from
The Tiahrt amendment, legislation which sets strict limits on the types of family planning activities the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) may fund,
Almost no comment needed… Before humans infested the planet, the earth was place of balance and perfection. Predator and prey, day and night, summer and
More health care undermined… Dr. Mary Meaney, writing on population issues for Crusade magazine, records a recent trip into Kenya which included the discovery of
In the Spring of 1988, officials with the US Department of State knew they had a problem. For almost 20 years, the US government had
Thirty years ago, Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich fired the opening salvo in what would soon become a war on people. In the pages of The
The latest population figures are now in. On October 28, the United Nations Population Division (not to be confused with the UN Population Fund) issued