Population Archives - C-Fam
UN Experts Warn of COVID-19 Fertility Cliff on World Population Day
UN demographic experts are asking if the downward fertility spiral made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic may be irreversible, a conclusion that could have far-reaching implications for population predictions and for social and economic policy.
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UN Commission Fails Again over Abortion and Anti-Sovereignty Language; Kenya Splinters African Group
For the third time in four years under President Trump’s leadership the United States has blocked the UN Commission on Population and Development from agreement due to the inclusion of abortion…
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Abortion Groups Panic as Senators Target Loopholes in Mexico City Policy
Abortion groups are scrambling to keep U.S. government funding after Senate and House Republicans caught them exploiting loopholes in the U.S. pro-life foreign policy that forbids them to receive taxpayer monies to promote and perform abortions abroad.
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Population Control Making a Comeback in the U.S. Congress?
U.S. Congressman Ami Bera said population control is a national security issue and that USAID and Congress are working together to get Republicans to spend more on contraception overseas.
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Large Population of Scientists Thinks There Are Too Many of the Rest of Us
Elite scientists said this week that overpopulation is a top reason for climate change and our numbers should be reduced. In a statement by 11,000 scientists, population control was one of six priority areas.
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Editorial: The UN Population Fund’s Dirty Little Secret
Even after decades of human rights abuses from coercive population control, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), continues to emphasize population control and to impose population control targets on countries all around the world.
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UN Spokesman Dismisses the Need for UN Agreement on Abortion
The chief spokesman for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently told an audience in Washington DC that his agency is sponsoring a negotiating session in Kenya because they cannot find agreement among the UN Member States in New York.
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Low U. S. Fertility Will Lead to Social Strife, Population Expert Says
“The 21stcentury is likely to see increasingly bitter struggles over the ramifications of declining fertility,” warns Lyman Stone, a population expert and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Five Best Moments of the Year 2018 for Life and Family at the UN
There have many important moments in 2018 for the pro-life cause internationally, maybe even epochal shifts. Only history can tell.
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Bill Gates Thinks There are Too Many Africans/Calls for Population Control
The goal of eliminating extreme poverty is among the top priorities of the global community and is the first of the UN’s seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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No Matter the Question, Contraception’s the Answer
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13 (C-Fam) Family planning advocates are working hard to position contraceptives as the key to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As an event on Tuesday…
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Family planning exchange in The Guardian: pragmatism meets magical thinking
Last week, UK newspaper The Guardian published an editoral about family planning policies, raising several interesting points: China is moving toward scrapping all policies imposing family size limits. China’s strict…
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Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies: Promise or Pretext?
As discussed in last week’s Friday Fax, “healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies” (HTSP) has become accepted as both the most acceptable rationale for the promotion of family planning by…
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U.S. and Africans Foil Latest Ruse to Advance Abortion Rights
The United States and the African Group rejected a UN resolution on migration last week because Europeans insisted upon including abortion-related language and excluding language that would protect national sovereignty.
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The Resurgence and Rebranding of Population Control
Population control proponents have found a way to regain some of their respectability in the public square by using the framing and metrics of family planning advocates. But the tactic requires dubious metrics and raises a host of ethical questions.
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World Population Day Brings Warnings of Overpopulation and Population Implosion
During this week’s observance of World Population Day, global family planning proponents identified crises such as humanitarian emergencies and the global financial downturn to justify more funding to limit the world’s population.
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London Family Planning Summit: The Cracks Are Showing
With its ambitious agenda off target and its largest funding source threatening to pull out, the international family planning partnership (FP2020) tried hard to appear positive at its summit in London this week.
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UN Staff, EU Politicians, Abortion Groups Join Forces to Vilify U.S. Pro-life Stance
More than forty-five governments and high-ranking UN staff convened in Brussels this week to raise money and combat U.S. pro-life policies.
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Vatican Academy of Science Says Population Control is Not “Crucial” To Save Biodiversity
The Pontifical Academy for Science distanced itself from population control theories at the end of a controversial conference about biological extinction featuring renown population control advocates.
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Best Moments of the Year for Life and Family at the United Nations
It has been a remarkable year. As has been the case in recent years, we have many more positive stories to highlight than negative ones.
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Worst Moments of the Year for Life and Family at the United Nations
While there were many positive moments to highlight this year, the bad ones were particularly bad, in fact, far worse than in any recent years.
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Aging World is More Dangerous
China’s dangerous brinksmanship in the South Pacific is driven in part by its plummeting fertility and rapid aging.
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Aspiration and inspiration: good for goals, bad for measurements
There’s no doubt that the UN’s shiny new 2030 Agenda is ambitious: the total elimination of global poverty is only the first of its seventeen(!) goals. Political commitments like this…
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Dire Population Predictions Are Not Just For China
Low-fertility and graying populations are looming problems globally, not just in China. But few understand or even know it.
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Expert: China’s 2 Child Policy “Still Coercive”
In case you missed it during the busy holidays, there has emerged a disconnect between media reports about China’s family planning policy changes (i.e. that China “abandoned” or “dropped” its one child per…
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