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 [...]
Give them Condoms!
If only women in sub-saharan Africa would finally stop having more than 3 children each… This is what the head of the UNFPA just communicated to UN member states at a UN meeting on migration and development, in more politically correct terms. [...]
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 [...]
USAID Report Highlights Family Planning over Maternal and Child Health
Once again the Obama administration reveals its priority to family planning over maternal and child health care needs of poor women and children in developing countries. Yesterday USAID released the 2012 Report to Congress: Health-Related Research and Development Strategy, which is an overview of the Agency’s 2011–2015 plan to implement and accelerate health programs to [...]
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 [...]
A World without handicapped children?
In 2011 the German parliament was divided beyond party lines on the issue of pre-implantation diagnostics (PID) of embryos. The parliament eventually decided to allow PID, thereby weakening the protection of the right to life of the unborn child ex utero. On friday, the Federal Council (vaguely similar in function to the US Senate), which [...]
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 [...]
Stanford population biologists: Global civilization threatened by religion and children
On January 8th, the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B published a commentary by Stanford scientists Paul and Anne Ehrlich titled “Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?” It would seem that the husband-and-wife team think that, even after the Mayan calendar apocalypse that failed to materialize and the repetitive doomsday chiming 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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The BBC’s Strawman
The remarkable Dr. Robert Walley wrote an open letter to the BBC about the debate we blogged on earlier. Following the Gates’ Summit on Family Planning, the BBC titled the segment “Should We Promote Contraception In Developing Countries?” As the Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Executive Director of MaterCare International notes, the episode became instead a diatribe against [...]
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 [...]
Lancet’s Push for Contraception Falls Flat
The Lancet medical journal launched its series on contraception today with a rah-rah introduction at an event held in conjunction with the Summit on Family Planning in London. “The link between contraception and the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] was missing,” announced the emcee. “Now we have the evidence needed in the Lancet papers. This will [...]