Posted on 22 May 2008
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world’s 6,666,666,666th person was born on May 10th. The occasion gave rise to the usual calls for more population control to stave off a demographic disaster.
According to Overpopulation.net, the only thing this number…
Posted on 15 May 2008
As the very first line of Steven Mosher’s latest book reads, we have all grown up “on a poisonous diet of overpopulation propaganda.”
Mosher’s book, Population Control — Real Costs, Illusory Benefits is, first and foremost, an answer to the allegation that…
Posted on 05 May 2008
On 17 April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI addressed a crowd of Catholic educators gathered at the Catholic University of America. After congratulating them on their efforts against a “crisis of faith” and a “crisis of truth,” he went on to…
Posted on 28 April 2008
If blogs were written in ink, then a veritable tanker of it would have been spilled when the latest film expedition into the land of Dr. Suess, Horton Hears a Who, entered the world of cinema. Boasting an all-star voice…
Posted on 01 April 2008
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 an abortion.
One reason why our teen pregnancy and abortion rate is so high is because of Planned Parenthood's relentless targeting of our young people. Americans need to understand that most teen abortions don't start when a girl walks into a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. They start when a slick Planned Parenthood operator walks into a classroom, or a teen logs onto a cleverly designed Planned Parenthood website.
Posted on 27 March 2008
I'm sitting at a worn desk in the headquarters of Grassroots Films in Brooklyn, NY. Humming Macs surround me as the company dog, a sand-colored mutt named Daisy, wanders aimlessly around my feet. Across the desk, Michael Campo is describing the experience of visiting a leper colony in Ghana.
"At first I was a little afraid, because I didn't know what to expect," he reminisces. "But all that fear was gone in five or ten minutes . . . they found such great joy and happiness together."
Campo, 28, co-stars in Grassroots Films' latest project, The Human Experience. Fast-paced and modern, The Human Experience is a you-are-there documentary that claims to offer an unprecedented look at the human condition. After being thoroughly excited by the trailer (available at www.grassrootsfilms.com), I had the pleasure of being invited to screen this film in Brooklyn, as well as speak to all of the major players at Grassroots Films.
Posted on 03 March 2008
In 2005, Planned Parenthood listed this man as one of "Seven Politicians You Don't Want In Your Bedroom." He has been called an "anti-abortion zealot," and a "crusader." He has been accused of putting his own religious convictions ahead of the rule of law. He has been damned in hundreds of op-eds. He even has a website dedicated solely to denouncing him.
His name is Phill Kline, and the Population Research Institute would like to officially rise to his defense.
In 2003, Phill Kline, then Attorney General of Kansas, began an investigation of the Johnson County Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. Using subpoenaed medical records, Kline uncovered evidence that seemed to prove that Planned Parenthood had willfully neglected to report instances of child rape, had forged their viability reports, and had performed illegal late-term abortions. (The records had the names and other personal information carefully redacted to protect the women's privacy.)
Posted on 05 February 2008
The topics of unplanned pregnancy and teen motherhood have always been politically sensitive ones for our morally schizophrenic nation, a nation that has the highest rate of teen pregnancy of any developed country. On the one hand, conservatives hold that…