Famous Chinese Filmmaker Investigated for Breaking One-Child Policy
Family planning agents are investigating China’s most famous film director for reportedly having 7 children with 4 women. If guilty of breaking China’s laws, Zhang Yimou could face $27 million in fines. Zhang designed the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. His films, like Raise the Red Lantern, have won international acclaim. Reports of his [...]
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 [...]
Generation that Aborted Will be Euthanized
Call it the new population control. Dr. Peter Saunders of Christian Medical Fellowship looks at the combination of demographic decline, financial crises and disrespect for life and comes to a sobering conclusion: The generation that killed its children will in turn be killed by its own children. In other words legalised abortion will lead to [...]
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 [...]
Human Rights Alert: Forced abortion and sterilization in China.
Abortion and sterilization are quite different in China than in the US. In the US pro-life and pro-choice advocates debate whether abortion should remain a legal choice. As a result 55 million abortions have taken place in the US. In China fertility is controlled by the state. When women violate the one-child policy or related policies (such [...]
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 [...]
Infringements on Human Rights: How abortion is a human rights issue
Although developmentally it is well known that a baby has both a heartbeat (21 days) and brainwaves (6 weeks) at the time a legal abortion can be conducted, many US states still deny that children inside the womb are alive, are human, and are entitled to human rights. Since Roe vs. Wade 40 years ago [...]
March for Life 2013!!
On Friday thousands will stand up for the most basic human right of all – the right to life. To find out more about the march and related activities click on the links below! March for Life 2013 video: March for Life video March for life homepage: http://www.marchforlife.org/ Related activities: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/2013-u.s.-march-for-life-schedule-of-events
China’s worker shortage
When I asked a group of security studies experts to contribute to a book on population decline–Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics–they took on the challenge with gusto despite misgivings about wading out of their areas of expertise. In the future, I assured them, it will influence everybody’s area of expertise. One of [...]
What’s behind the US Fertility Drop?
The latest set of fertility figures from the Centers for Disease Control reinforce the point I have been making in my book talks: America’s fertility rate has been falling since the onset of the recession in 2008–but comparisons to Europe’s demographic winter are premature. A closer look reveals that the drop is coming in part from [...]
The New Canadian Family: How the North American Family is changing and changing fast.
According to one of the latest Statistics Canada documents, “Portraits of Families and Living Arrangements in Canada: Families, households and marital status, 2011 Census of Population,” Canadian households have undergone substantial change since the last Census in 2006. Among the reported findings, the document notes increases in lone- parent families, same sex couple families (“42.4% [...]
Korea’s demographic tipping point
Even skeptics of the demographic dividend have pointed to the success of the Asian Tigers as the exception to the global rule (there has been no such economic boom in the rest of the developing world despite falling fertility). Yet as a new Bank of Korea report confirms, the Aging Tigers, already eking out the last of the dividend, must [...]
Population Decline and Japan’s Defense: Combatibility with International Contributions
Here is the translation of my most recent OpEd from the Yomiuri Shimbun. Bottom line is that fertility and population decline now present a stark choice for Tokyo, one which they must face or risk undermining the alliance.
Loving the Elderly
When abortion was thrust upon the U.S., pro-lifers realized we needed to help women making the life-and-death decisions just as much as we worked legislatively. It’s the loving thing to do. With euthanasia fast approaching as important a threat as abortion, we are again challenged. How can we show love to the dying? Susan Yoshihara [...]
Abortion and the Cuban Economy
Abortion is free in Cuba and it’s estimated that half of the children conceived on that island nation are killed before birth. The fertility rate is 1.5 children per woman, well below replacement level. Improved health care means Cubans are living longer. With grown children leaving for the U.S. to find work, Cuba’s elderly increasingly depend [...]
Russian Demographic Outlook: Good News Fleeting
A new report from a Moscow-based investment bank says the slowing of Russian population decline is temporary. Extremely low birthrates in the 1990s means the number of women of childbearing age will fall in the next decade and inevitably their will be fewer babies born.
Melinda’s Message to Dying Mothers: “Sorry, You Should Have Used a Condom”
The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health is telling mothers that die because they choose to have children that using condoms could have prevented their complications in pregnancy. In an article published in Lancet, “Maternal deaths averted by contraceptive use: an analysis of 172 countries”, the Gates funded institute concludes that contraception is a [...]
CEDAW Expert Supervillains Keep Hurting Women
Staff from every major, and not so major, UN entity, human rights agency, program and organization showed up yesterday morning in Conference Room 3 of the temporary North Lawn Building at UN Headquarters in New York at a commemorative event for the 30th anniversary of the CEDAW Committee. Later during the evening, the same crowd [...]
European Parliament Condemns China’s One Child Policy and Sex Selective Abortion
A Resolution at the EU Parliament last week raised alarm bells regarding the recent controversy in China surrounding the forced abortion that Feng Jianmei was forced to undergo. The resolution calls into question the one child policy and condemns forced abortions and sex selective abortion. It also instructs EU diplomats to engage their Chinese counterparts on these [...]
The UNFPA’s Miserable Failure to Control the World’s Population at Rio +20
The UNFPA left the Rio +20 conference on sustainable development without anything to show for its efforts. Not a single one of their hard fought suggestions ever made it into the text. Their presence at the conference could hardly even be felt, except through a few countries like New Zealand, Norway and Iceland, which were [...]