Less than two months after 13 women died in the neighboring state of Chhattisgarh, 43 women were sterilized in unsanitary and inhumane conditions in Chatra, a northern district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Knowing the facility had no electricity, the sterilization camp coordinator rented a
Women’s wombs are inflated with bicycle pumps. Some are paid as little as 600 rupees – about $10 – to be sterilized. Some see – and feel – doctors pull shreds of their organs from their abdomens during procedures. Doctors reuse gloves and needles for
Poll taxes, property requirements, and race and gender-based voting prohibitions codified thinly disguised discrimination in darker periods in United States history. Today, in the world’s largest democracy, local laws restrict political participation to people who have two or fewer children. Seven Indian states currently prohibit
As women across Kenya reject their “help,” population controllers have sunk to new lows: Mass sterilizations of unsuspecting women, through a common immunization. DONATE Dear If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to make a year-end gift to the Population Research Institute (PRI), your support truly can’t
True story #3 in PRI’s ongoing series of “How I Survived Population Control” These stories are part of PRI’s 2014 End of Year Campaign. Please give generously to continue our vital work together. China brutally enforces a “one child per family” law, but often we
In Paul Ehrlich’s crude fantasy, The Population Bomb, “compulsory birth regulation” was to be achieved by polluting the water supply with “mass sterilizing agents.” But more sophisticated population controllers dreamed of a contraceptive vaccine that would, with the stick of a needle, sterilize women for years,
True story #2 in PRI’s ongoing series of “How I Survived Population Control” These stories are part of PRI's 2014 End of Year Campaign. Please give generously to continue our vital work together. You’re about to read the story of eleven million women and men
A steady stream of headlines are hyping a new journal article that claims that the world population is a terrifying goliath resolutely stomping towards human destruction. Written by two environmental scientists in Australia, Corey Bradshaw and Barry Brook, and edited by Paul Ehrlich, (a Stanford
The Population Research Institute condemns a proposed population control initiative in Switzerland which is being put to a vote on November 30, and if enacted, would restrict immigration into Switzerland and increase Swiss spending on population control abroad. The proposed initiative would cap the number
This past Saturday, October 11, was the International Day of the Girl Child. In recognition of this day, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng spoke against China’s population control program on a panel at the Heritage Foundation last Thursday. Speaking through a translator, Guangcheng called the one-child policy
Less than two months after 13 women died in the neighboring state of Chhattisgarh, 43 women were sterilized in unsanitary and inhumane conditions in Chatra,
Women’s wombs are inflated with bicycle pumps. Some are paid as little as 600 rupees – about $10 – to be sterilized. Some see –
Poll taxes, property requirements, and race and gender-based voting prohibitions codified thinly disguised discrimination in darker periods in United States history. Today, in the world’s
As women across Kenya reject their “help,” population controllers have sunk to new lows: Mass sterilizations of unsuspecting women, through a common immunization. DONATE Dear If you
True story #3 in PRI’s ongoing series of “How I Survived Population Control” These stories are part of PRI’s 2014 End of Year Campaign. Please
In Paul Ehrlich’s crude fantasy, The Population Bomb, “compulsory birth regulation” was to be achieved by polluting the water supply with “mass sterilizing agents.” But more
True story #2 in PRI’s ongoing series of “How I Survived Population Control” These stories are part of PRI's 2014 End of Year Campaign. Please
A steady stream of headlines are hyping a new journal article that claims that the world population is a terrifying goliath resolutely stomping towards human
The Population Research Institute condemns a proposed population control initiative in Switzerland which is being put to a vote on November 30, and if enacted,
This past Saturday, October 11, was the International Day of the Girl Child. In recognition of this day, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng spoke against China’s