The Truth About Condoms?
According to Bill Gates, they prevent the experience of sexual pleasure. Madonna thinks condoms will save Africans from HIV/AIDS. The CDC thinks homosexuals should be using them more… Interesting article on Bill Gates’ search for a better condom. Excerpt below: Sex researcher Dr. Rachel Jones at the Guttmacher Institute recently published a study in the [...]
Fertility 2.1
Fertility is plummeting around the globe and countries are at a loss to solve the problems created by aging and population decline. Without robust workforces it will be impossible for African countries with emergent fiscal systems to sustain any kind of social protection floor in the future. While countries negotiate a document to address the challenges countries and [...]
Every Dollar Spent on Condoms Means Less Dollars in Taxes
An article from Keith Riler at First Things fleshes out the long term effects of population control efforts among the poor in America. Riler suggests that the FED and States should gladly spend $11,000 worth of Medicare on births among poor Americans, rather then spend for family planning. Riler sees it as an investment. The argument is [...]
Offensive USAID-Funded Ad Pulled in Kenya After Public Outcry
Just one day after USAID released a progress report on development reform, a US and UK funded AIDS prevention ad was pulled for being offensive and immoral for its promotion of extramarital affairs. While Christian and Muslim religious leaders called on the Communications Commission of Kenya to remove the ad from airwaves, it was a [...]
Condoms or Water?
Here is a great new add for a group that is helping provide potable water to children. The Gates Foundation and UNFPA who are asking for 8B USD a year to give condoms to subsaharan women should take the cue…
The Guttmacher Institute has a bad prescription for mothers in Uganda
The Guttmacher Institute released a brief report titled Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion in Uganda in which they make their case for why increased contraception and access to “safe” abortion will reduce maternal mortality. Briefly, their argument is that unintended pregnancy in Uganda is high, and this is because women don’t have access to contraceptives. Because [...]
War Crimes against Civilians in Mali
International forces led by France are advancing into the Northern parts of Mali in an effort to drive out Islamist terrorists which had imposed Sharia law in the area for the last nine months. At the same time not only the terrorists but also Malian forces which are involved in the re-conquest of this part [...]
The Latest Excuse for Population Control: Terrorists
Here it is again. That nasty theory that certain populations (i.e. people of color) need to be culled at any cost, using “drastic” measures, is being touted on the webpages of the respected journal Foreign Policy. The excuse this time is to reduce terrorists. And the target is people in Mali – the very people [...]
Human Rights Official Riles Up UN Delegates, Fire Alarm Goes Off
Yesterday was UN Day. A day to celebrate the accomplishments of the world’s only universal international organization, and the progress of the world’s nations towards a brighter more peaceful future. But UN delegates at the third committee meeting of the 67th plenary session of the General Assembly were more concerned with highlighting overreaching by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. [...]
Where debating stops
As a social scientist I have been taught that morality is merely relative to the time and context. Nothing can be claimed to be objectively True always since truth changes within and between social groups. But as the new PBS documentary “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” potently illustrates, some behaviors [...]
Obama Again Waives Penalties to Countries that Use Child Soldiers
The Cable reported that for the third consecutive year President Obama has waived restrictions to countries that use child soldiers. The presidential memorandum quietly released last Friday came just 3 days after the president issued a new anti-trafficking Executive Order to strengthen the ability of the government to combat forced labor and servitude of men, women and children. [...]
Group Claims Obama Admin Foreign Policy and UN Pushing Sexual Rights Agenda
An International Family advocacy group has launched a campaign to expose diplomatic pressure directed toward poor developing countries to advance sexual rights including withholding humanitarian aid to assure it is done. Family Watch International in collaboration with the Foundation for African Culture and Heritage, and other pro-family organizations released a documentary Cultural Imperialism: The Sexual Rights Agenda on You Tube [...]
Post-Family Planning Summit: Pressure Governments Despite What Women Want
Now that the London Family Planning Summit is a memory and world leaders have gone home, what comes next? Melinda Gates is keeping the spotlight on her priority of encouraging women not to have children by writing articles from her travels that are posted on partner organizations’ websites. Partner organizations are hiring consultants and holding [...]
Polygamists and Sexual Rights
Marriage advocates warn that same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy. Lest we forget why polygamy is not a good thing, this article shows how it degrades women and the marriage bond. Polygamy Throttles Women in Senegal This comment, however, should put Western elites in their place who champion ‘sexual rights’: “Lamine Camara, 22, a student [...]
Child Survival Improves, While Maternal Deaths are Politicized
Good news came from UNICEF today. The number of children under age 5 dying globally has dropped nearly in half since 1990. (This, of course, would not include the number of babies who die before they are born.) In 1990, nearly 12 million children died. That dropped to 6.9 million in 2011. UNICEF and the [...]
Sabotaging Successful HIV/AIDS Prevention
Uganda was the great success story in reducing HIV/AIDS. Now, a member of the generation that benefited worries that Uganda’s “image of reversing the scourge in the early 1990’s has since dissipated.” Why? Because messages of abstinence and fidelity – the keys to preventing HIV/AIDS – have been abandoned as money flows to groups that [...]
Nigerian Woman Responds to Gates’ Contraception Campaign
Zainab Usman wrote a thoughtful article on the Gates’ contraception campaign for ThinkAfricaPress.com that got picked up by AllAfrica.com. Zainab is a Nigerian freelance writer currently working in Brussels and “a budding political economist and political scientist with a keen interest in Current Affairs: Nigerian, African and International affairs.” In “Nigeria: Family Planning Is No [...]
Does Marriage or Sex Create Babies?
When is the one – and only – time that abortion and family planning advocates acknowledge the procreative aspect of marriage? Not in the debate over same-sex marriage, where they scoff at such notions. Nor in conversations on the sanctity of marriage. There is one time, however, in a twisted fashion they link marriage as [...]
WHO: Free Guidance for Melinda
Melinda Gates has just received a free lesson on how to spend the four billion dollars collected by her foundation and the UNFPA to promote and provide contraception in Sub-Saharan Africa. The most recent WHO Bulletin contains an interesting study detailing how marketing campaigns had a positive impact on condom use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Imagine, with [...]
Namibia High Court Rules in Favor of Sterilized HIV Women
The Namibian High Court ruled in favor of 3 HIV-positve women who were coerced into receiving sterilizations when they went to state hospitals to have their babies. The women reported that they went to the hospital to have a caesarean section since they were HIV and wanted to prevent transmission to their child. While at the hospital [...]