Note: The following is excerpted from Steven Mosher’s book, Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. The first population bomber of the modern age was, by profession at least, ill-suited to the task. The Rev. Thomas Malthus, Anglican clergyman, predicted in 1798 that there would be standing
Note: The following is excerpted from Steven Mosher’s book, Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. We have had sufficient experience now with population programs to realize that they can easily become a vehicle for elite pressure on the poor. I fear that the elevation to legitimacy
06 October 2008 — Vol. 10/ No. 42 “Free birth control is only a phone call away,” assures a sunny female radio voice. “Total bill: zero. It’s not a mistake. It’s the Waiver!” So asserts the web site of Wisconsin’s Family Planning Health Services (FPHS),
Editor’s Note: Thanks to the tireless efforts of Colin Mason, our Director of media Production and de facto public relations officer, PRI has received unprecedented coverage in print, on the radio, on television, and across the blogosphere. The following is but a taste of PRI’s
Already notorious for its unconditional embrace of abortion, the Democratic Party has now managed to adopt a position on the paramount life issue that is, if anything, even more extreme. The new platform adopted in Denver states that the Party “strongly and unequivocally supports Roe
11 August 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 32 Contraception Is Never Abortion? It Depends On What the Meaning Of “Pregnant” Is Abortion advocates are up in arms about new federal regulations to protect pro-life health care providers. According to a draft recently leaked to the
[N.B. The Decency Gap website was taken down not long after this story first broke. Check www.pop.org for updates.] Population Research Institute has unmasked the real intentions of filmmaker Eve Reinhardt and her Multimedia Project “The Decency Gap.” Although Reinhardt claims that the documentary will
Cohabitation Growing Worldwide Cohabitation has become a mainstream and acceptable way of life in the United States and even more so in some other developed countries, according to a National Marriage Project study on cohabitation, marriage and divorce using data that examined living habits in
Dear Ms. Fore, Last November, you were confirmed to head our multi-billion dollar foreign aid agency. You are committed, you tell us, to “serv[ing] the people who have the least hope, opportunity and prosperity, and who want to build their lives, their nations and their
The United States of America has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the Western world. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute’s 2002 report, 75 out of every 1,000 girls aged 15–19 in the United States will get pregnant. Twenty-one out of every 1,000 will get
Note: The following is excerpted from Steven Mosher’s book, Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. The first population bomber of the modern age was, by profession
Note: The following is excerpted from Steven Mosher’s book, Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. We have had sufficient experience now with population programs to realize
06 October 2008 — Vol. 10/ No. 42 “Free birth control is only a phone call away,” assures a sunny female radio voice. “Total bill:
Editor’s Note: Thanks to the tireless efforts of Colin Mason, our Director of media Production and de facto public relations officer, PRI has received unprecedented
Already notorious for its unconditional embrace of abortion, the Democratic Party has now managed to adopt a position on the paramount life issue that is,
11 August 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 32 Contraception Is Never Abortion? It Depends On What the Meaning Of “Pregnant” Is Abortion advocates are up
[N.B. The Decency Gap website was taken down not long after this story first broke. Check www.pop.org for updates.] Population Research Institute has unmasked the
Cohabitation Growing Worldwide Cohabitation has become a mainstream and acceptable way of life in the United States and even more so in some other developed
Dear Ms. Fore, Last November, you were confirmed to head our multi-billion dollar foreign aid agency. You are committed, you tell us, to “serv[ing] the
The United States of America has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the Western world. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute’s 2002 report, 75 out