Kenya has a new constitution. Approved by an overwhelming majority of Kenyans in a 4 August 2010 referendum, the document’s 250 or so pages represent, in some ways, a new beginning for the Kenyan people. Unfortunately, it also means a…
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Posted on 28 August 2010
Kenya has a new constitution. Approved by an overwhelming majority of Kenyans in a 4 August 2010 referendum, the document’s 250 or so pages represent, in some ways, a new beginning for the Kenyan people. Unfortunately, it also means a…
Posted on 14 July 2010
It started as “Five Billion Day.” This was the day—July 11, 1989, to be exact—when the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimated that the world’s population would reach five billion. With one voice, the U.N. Population Fund, the International Planned…
Posted on 03 July 2010
The evening news cycle continues to be dominated by the Gulf oil spill and, more recently, by the firing of General McChrystal. But long after the war in Afghanistan has ground to a halt, and the clean-up of the Gulf…
Posted on 25 June 2010
On June 17th, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel unanimously approved a new abortifacient drug, cutely called “ella,” moving it one step closer to final approval and its appearance on drugstore shelves across the nation.
The French pharmaceutical company…
Posted on 29 April 2010
There is no tragedy that the abortion movement does not seek to turn to its own advantage.
Consider the case of a young girl in Quintana Roo, Mexico, who was raped by her supposed stepfather and impregnated at the tender…
Posted on 21 January 2010
Are you in favor of injustice? Increased disease? More poverty? Those who oppose her “reproductive health” programs probably are, according to Hillary Clinton.
The 15th Anniversary International Conference on Population and Development was held on January 8th, and the U.S.…
Posted on 31 August 2009
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs stood squirming on NBC’s Today Show, as NBC anchor Matt Lauer posed uncomfortable questions about Obama’s plan for national health care. Lauer wanted to know why proponents of Obamacare were met by angry, boo-hiss…
Posted on 16 June 2009
In May, representatives from Canadian Catholic Organization of Development & Peace (D&P), a charitable organization funded by the Canadian Bishops’ Conference, visited Mexico. Their purpose? To tour some of the Latin American organizations that D&P assists with money it received…
Posted on 09 April 2009
According to Nina Fedoroff, the United States’ Science and Technology Adviser, we should all be very, very afraid.
Interviewed on the BBC’s One Planet radio program, Fedoroff came across as a population alarmist in the mold of Thomas Malthus or…
Posted on 10 December 2008
If you read The Huffington Post, then you’re probably aware of the fact that, on Tuesday, December 2nd, The Huffington Post published an article bitterly attacking our organization. The article focused on our ongoing investigations of the UN Population Fund’s…