Is the One Child Policy Irrelevant
A Carnegie Endowment for Peace researcher says in the Diplomat that China’s population would have fallen drastically anyway–even without the one child per family policy instituted 30 years ago. As we…
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Human Rights Threatened by Modern Ideologies
If you’ve ever thought that the multiplication of human rights is non-controversial, you should think again… It is a deliberate plot to damage the autonomy of individuals, families and increase…
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How US Taxpayers Save Money By Not Having Babies
One of this week’s blog posts in the American Thinker contains the following opening statement: “Slowly but surely, the Obama administration is introducing the general public to the idea that…
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US Ratification of CEDAW Focus at World Bank Event
To commemorate International Women’s Day the World Bank in collaboration with the Nordic Trust Fund, the Leadership Conference Education Fund and the UN Foundation, hosted an event on CEDAW (Convention…
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Guttmacher Institute claims to debunk a study showing connection between abortion and mental health
Yesterday the Guttmacher Institute published an article claiming to “decisively debunk” a study published in 2009 in the Journal of Psychiatric Research entitled “Induced abortion and anxiety, mood, and substance…
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Demographic Winter is Crippling the Economy
According to an interview published in the WSJ the prospects of investment returns for babyboomers with money in US markets are “depressing” because of the slow demographic growth in the…
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Abortion advances in Colombia
Excellent piece about the current status of legalized abortion in Colombia. The article is in Spanish, but the following is a translation of an important quote from the article: “Though…
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“Anti-Discrimination”: EU to legislate for compulsory gender quotas in board rooms?
In today’s edition of the Financial Times we read the following: The European Union’s executive is to press ahead with plans for quotas to increase the proportion of women on…
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Women choosing childlessness
Former UN Population Division head Joseph Chamie has a recent article about how the rise of childlessness poses profound challenges to economic growth. Doug Sylva, coeditor with me on our…
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Obama vs. Putin’s Plans for Their Countries
While President Obama promotes contraception in the US, Russia’s Putin is promoting conception. C-FAM’s Susan Yoshihara explains why on FOXNews.com in “The one thing Putin wants Russians to do like…
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First comes the theory, then the practice: why academic writing is not innocent
Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini, who wrote is an “academic” paper that killing newborn babies should be as permissible as abortion, say that they have received death threats. Given that…
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EU: the muppet show continues – fake “civil society” wants more money out of taxpayers’ pockets
In a recent series of posts, we have informed the public of the European Commission’s strategy of “political ventriloquism”, i.e., the strange fact that the EU’s executive shovels millions of…
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Bloomberg: One-Child policy a “poisoned chalice”
“As the world’s largest national congress meets in Beijing to prepare for new leadership, likely successor Xi Jinping will inherit a roadblock to growth dating back almost to the era…
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The Costs of China’s Gendercide
Your invitation to an intriguing panel next Tuesday . . . Social and National Security Costs of Gendercide NEW YORK, March 1, 2102 – Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) together with…
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Incredible: UK Public Authority wants to prohibit God from healing the sick!
It doesn’t really fit with the theme of this blog, but I thought I should not withhold from our readers this precious newest gem of anti-religious bigotry: in the UK,…
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Infanticide: Logical Outcome of the Commitment to a “Right to Abortion”
A few days ago, J.C. von Krempach brought to attention an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics entitled: “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” arguing that the newborn…
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Labor shortages already hampering China’s growth
The high cost of China’s 30-year one child-per family policy is rising higher. The world’s most populous country is grappling with a shortage of labor. Even in the provinces that…
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House Judiciary Hearing Raises Concerns of Government Intrusion Into Family Life
The full committee of the House Judiciary convened yesterday to discuss the ongoing religious liberty violation resulting from the HHS contraception mandate for all healthcare policies except for a very…
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The Power of Population Growth: The Philippines Will Become 16th Largest World Economy by 2050
Recently, the HSBC Global Research department released a report forecasting the trends in world economic development for the next 40 years. Countries with growing population and improving rule of law,…
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Abortion in Ireland : Addressing the outcome of the A, B & C v Ireland ruling at the European Court of Human Rights.
Addressing the outcome of the A, B & C v Ireland ruling at the European Court of Human Rights. 10.11.2011 On January 13 2011, the Irish Government published the…
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Which is a Security Risk – Too Fat or Too Few People?
When visiting a military base, America’s First Lady called obesity a threat to the nation’s security. But there’s a more pressing issue that — so far — has given the…
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If abortion, why not infanticide?
This leading question is often treated as a canard by supporters of abortion. However, it is seriously argued by two Italian utilitarians, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, and published online…
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Netherlands: we have euthanasia, but no place for coma patients…
The Dutch public is offended over remarks made by Rick Santorum in a TV talkshow: “In the Netherlands, people wear different bracelets if they are elderly. And the bracelet is:…
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Former Archbishop of Canterbury: gay marriage would be “cultural vandalism”
Commenting on proposals made by the British government, the former Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican World Community, Lord Carey, has stated that the redefinition of “marriage” would…
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State Dept Delegation to UN Women Commission Stacked With Abortion Advocates
Yesterday a State Department press release announced the delegation they would be sending to the the 56th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women beginning next week at UN…
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