TRAUMATIC IRISH ABORTION CASE The Irish Supreme Court, by a majority of four to one, recently rendered a decision concerning abortion under Article 8 of the Irish Constitution. Article 8 reads: “The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard
USAID ‘BIG COUNTRY’ STRATEGY The U.S. Agency for International Development has begun a major restructuring of its “population assistance funding priorities,” doubling “the amount of aid to the 17 largest countries” which accept U.S. assistance. The ‘Big Country’ strategy sets population size as “the dominant
The lives of women and children in developing countries have been measured and found wanting in the utilitarian cost-benefit analyses of the World Bank and its partners in the international population control cartel. The burden and expense of mothers and infants can only be relieved
Demographic experts and international population control groups have been speculating for quite some time about just how many people live in Nigeria. According to the Population Reference Bureau, Nigeria’s 1991 mid-year population was 122.5 million.1 The December 1990 edition of Populi reported that Nigeria’s 1990
Did the United States government play a role in the proposed legalization of abortion in Nigeria? There is much to suggest that it did — both directly and indirectly. On 22 August 1991, Nigerian Minister of Health Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, told a press conference in Lagos
Dr. Geraldo Hideu Osanai is a well-known Brazilian physician and author. The Reuter News Agency stated on 13 November 1991 that “More than 400,000 women die each year in Brazil from botched abortions” and that “more than four million abortions were carried out every year,
Gratis to Nigeria from UNFPA Lagos reports that the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) will provide Nigeria with about 35 million U.S. dollars to help finance population activities in that country, “the most populous in Africa,” during the 1992–1996 period. Out of the
The Dying West The Western World’s diminished population can be expected to limit the economic well-being of the western nations. Shrinking populations do not provide for economic growth. The imbalance of economic opportunity and control over world resources, as they currently exist, will not continue.
WORLDWATCH WOLF KEEPS CRYING Lester R. Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute and long-time global food supply doomsayer, was quoted at length by The Wall Street Journal, 19 December 1991, p. A10, in an article headlined “Severe Famine in East Africa and Iraq, Food Shortages
Fernando Orrego is a member of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile. In the context of a very bleak future, a recent report1 by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) on world population is full of errors, strongly biased
TRAUMATIC IRISH ABORTION CASE The Irish Supreme Court, by a majority of four to one, recently rendered a decision concerning abortion under Article 8 of
USAID ‘BIG COUNTRY’ STRATEGY The U.S. Agency for International Development has begun a major restructuring of its “population assistance funding priorities,” doubling “the amount of
The lives of women and children in developing countries have been measured and found wanting in the utilitarian cost-benefit analyses of the World Bank and
Demographic experts and international population control groups have been speculating for quite some time about just how many people live in Nigeria. According to the
Did the United States government play a role in the proposed legalization of abortion in Nigeria? There is much to suggest that it did —
Dr. Geraldo Hideu Osanai is a well-known Brazilian physician and author. The Reuter News Agency stated on 13 November 1991 that “More than 400,000 women
Gratis to Nigeria from UNFPA Lagos reports that the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) will provide Nigeria with about 35 million U.S. dollars
The Dying West The Western World’s diminished population can be expected to limit the economic well-being of the western nations. Shrinking populations do not provide
WORLDWATCH WOLF KEEPS CRYING Lester R. Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute and long-time global food supply doomsayer, was quoted at length by The Wall
Fernando Orrego is a member of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile. In the context of a very bleak future, a