The Commission for Refugee Women and Children has praised the international community for its unprecedented readiness to deal with what it calls a potential "reproductive health crisis" that the war in Iraq threatened to unleash. A media liaison for the commission has remarked that, "Crisis preparation for the war in Iraq marked a milestone. Emergency reproductive health care supplies had been pre-positioned [...]
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities says two American women began e-mail campaigns urging people to make up for the withdrawal of $34 million by the Bush administration for international population control. The administration withdrew its financial support because the Fund's support for abortion and coercive population-control schemes violated the Mexico City policy Bush reinstated after eight years of Bill Clinton's [...]
More than 130 parliamentarians from around the world met in Ottawa in November for a meeting to discuss global strategies to promote "reproductive rights" and "access to reproductive health care" (read: abortion). The meeting was hosted by the Canadian Association of Parliamentarians for Population and Development, headed by Jean Augustine, the secretary of state for multiculturalism and women's affairs, and co-sponsored by [...]
Recently, Statistics Canada presented the 2001 Census, in which it was reported that population growth in this country is at a record low and that what meagre growth there has been is only due to increased immigration. To sustain a population, a country must have a fertility rate (the number of children a woman will have in her lifetime) of 2.1; Canada's [...]
The UN recently convened a meeting of demographers to discuss whether the fertility rates of developing countries like India and Brazil will continue to fall, perhaps even reaching the extremely low fertility rates found in many developed nations. The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs concluded that it is altogether likely that the fertility of much of the [...]
She was introduced by Sheila Dunn, medical director of Toronto's Bay Centre for Birth Control, as "a leading international advocate for women's health and equality" and a person who "changed the international approach to slowing population growth." As "a role model and a mentor," she was said to have displayed "vision ... courage and ... inspiration ... to implement the ‘transformative program [...]
Ever since Paul Ehrlich released his 1968 book The Population Bomb, many in the modern world have been convinced that maybe the 17th Century British economist Thomas Malthus was right all along: perhaps, if given a chance, human beings will breed like rats and overpopulate the Earth. The "solution" proposed by scientists, the United Nations, and pro-abortion activists in the West has [...]
United States evangelist Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Christian Coalition, recently shocked pro-lifers with his support of China's brutal one-child policy. On the April 16 CNN show Wolf Blitzer Reports, Robertson said he doesn't "agree" with forced abortions and forced sterilizations, but he excused them nonetheless: "They've got 1.2 billion people, and they don't know what to do. [...]
Two agencies disagree on whether growing population is a problem A new report issued by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) contends that population growth has resulted in human misery and environmental ruin throughout the world. UNFPA claims these problems will become calamitous unless women gain access to reproductive services, which includes abortion. UNFPA's annual State of the World Population ("Footprints and [...]
By Paul Tuns An American pro-life group is declaring a partial victory against Microsoft founder Bill Gates one year after beginning an education campaign directed at the billionaire's funding of population control programs. From September to November 1999, the American Life League (ALL) ran ads, entitled Windows to the Truth, in the Eastside Journal in suburban Seattle, as part of their Educate Bill [...]
I have never been an expert at anything, apart from eating and sleeping. But, since I became active in the pro-life movement some years ago, I have taken a special interest in the question of world population. The obvious reason for this is the effect which abortion and contraception must have on the number of new human beings. Having read the 19th-century [...]
The impending doom that underlied the news stories when the world's population reached six billion earlier this year is unfounded, and worse, a sign of the devaluation of human life. There is little reason to believe that the earth becomes a worse place to live with each new person. However, Princeton University "ethicist" Peter Singer seems to believe so. He stated in [...]
Population conference says 10-year-olds have right to contraception and ‘safe' abortions Between June 30 and July 2, a special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations reviewed the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development. Planners of Cairo+5, including the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, sought to expand abortion rights and contraception access, as [...]
The once-noble United Nations children's agency UNICEF is no longer what it was. It has undergone a facelift. In July l998, in Geneva, the UN officially established a new alliance of three UN social agencies: UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. In a press release, the UN Children's Fund and the World Health Organization were [...]
The directors of Prince Edward Island Right to Life were in for a shock when they began to study the 50-year-old United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, says president Pauline MacDonald. Reading Interim columnist Winifride Prestwich's booklet, UNICEF: Guilty as Charged, they learned that: UNICEF is not a true charity, but an international organization controlled by a board of UN representatives, each [...]