Family planning

CEDAW Makes a Comeback

Now that the party of death has retaken control of Congress, battles over funding of embryonic stem cell research, chemical abortifacients, contraception, sex education, special privileges for homosexuals, and other such controversies will ensue over the next two years. The fight over an obscure international

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CEDAW Makes a Comeback

9 February 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 6 Dear Colleague: CEDAW, like the ERA before it, is a threat to babies and families. Steven W. Mosher President CEDAW MAKES A COMEBACK Now that the party of death has retaken control of Congress, battles over funding of

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From the Countries

Grants Given to “Protect” Women Five two-year grants, totaling $1.15 million, will be given by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California, to “improve access to reproductive health care of women of color, low-income residents and teenagers.” To “protect” California Latinos, $300,000

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A Cut for Population Control Money?

Volume 8 / Number 39 Dear Colleague: There is a chance that U.S. funding for international population control could go down, since that is the Bush Administration’s wish. Steven W. Mosher President A Cut for Population Control Money? Official federal spending on overseas ‘population assistance,’

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For the Record…

“Population control organizations, in particular the United Nations, are ignoring the growing crisis of an aging world population, said Joseph D’Agostino, Vice President of the Population Research Institute, in a weekly briefing today… “‘The UNDP [United Nations Population Division] expects the aging, predicted to begin

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China’s Longest Campaign: Tyrene White.

China’s Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People’s Republic, 1949-2005 by Tyrene White (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2006), 297 pp. Reviewed by Steven W. Mosher. Chen Guangcheng will never read this book about the history of China’s one-child policy. He doesn’t need to.

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Hu Gets the Red Carpet, the Rest Gets Ignored

Hu Jintao, dictator of Communist China, received all the trappings of a state visit in April from President Bush, who ignored China’s systematic human rights abuses beyond making some vague statements about “respecting human rights and the freedoms of the Chinese people.” As expected, Bush

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Hu Gets the Red Carpet, the Rest Gets Ignored

April 21, 2006 Volume 8 / Number 16 Hu Gets the Red Carpet, the Rest Gets Ignored Dear Colleague: Yet more congressional testimony about China’s human rights abuses failed to dampen Chinese dictator Hu Jintao’s American reception, but Congressman Chris Smith made his point for

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Family Planning Graduation

It’s time to graduate some Third World countries from American-sponsored population control. “Population stabilization” in developing countries is an official purpose of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), though in keeping with the zeitgeist, efforts to achieve that goal are today called family planning

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Family Planning Graduation

February 17, 2006 Volume 8 / Number 7 Family Planning Graduation Dear Colleague: Some countries should clearly be free of American attempts to reduce their populations. If anything, USAID should be promoting the reverse. Steven W. Mosher President It’s time to graduate some Third World

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CEDAW Makes a Comeback

Now that the party of death has retaken control of Congress, battles over funding of embryonic stem cell research, chemical abortifacients, contraception, sex education, special

Read More »

CEDAW Makes a Comeback

9 February 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 6 Dear Colleague: CEDAW, like the ERA before it, is a threat to babies and families. Steven W. Mosher

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From the Countries

Grants Given to “Protect” Women Five two-year grants, totaling $1.15 million, will be given by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California,

Read More »

For the Record…

“Population control organizations, in particular the United Nations, are ignoring the growing crisis of an aging world population, said Joseph D’Agostino, Vice President of the

Read More »

Family Planning Graduation

It’s time to graduate some Third World countries from American-sponsored population control. “Population stabilization” in developing countries is an official purpose of the U.S. Agency

Read More »

Family Planning Graduation

February 17, 2006 Volume 8 / Number 7 Family Planning Graduation Dear Colleague: Some countries should clearly be free of American attempts to reduce their

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