Population
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Written on 9 Sep, 2004 at 8:37 in
Abortion, Population | Author:
Paul Tuns
Tom Kent, a former federal Liberal party social policy adviser, urged Ottawa to increase youth immigration to counter Canada's decline in fertility and the economic consequences for the country.
Writing in Policy Options, Kent suggested immigration policy be changed to attract teens and university-aged individuals from foreign countries to create a sufficient base of workers and taxpayers so that Canada's social programs - old-age pensions and universal healthcare - can remain solvent.
Kent said, "If we want ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 May, 2004 at 8:38 in
Abortion, Population, Pro-Life | Author:
On April 19, Statistics Canada revealed that the 2002 birth rate in Canada fell for the 11th time in 12 years and that the fertility rate - 1.5 children per woman of child-bearing age (15-49) - is one quarter under the replacement level of 2.1.
The birthrate of 10.5 live births per 1,000 population is the lowest since statistics keeping track of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2003 at 13:28 in
Abortion, Population | Author:
Lifesite News
A major new study just released by the New York-based International Organizations Research Group (IORG) reports in great detail the gradual change of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) from a child survival agency to one that promotes aspects of radical feminism.
Produced by the International Organization Research Group, an arm of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), the study is entitled "UNICEF, Women or Children First?"
The paper establishes that ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2003 at 12:52 in
Population | Author:
By Sam Singson The Interim
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 in the region, and for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2003 at 9:49 in
Population | Author:
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 shenanigans.
The "34 Million Friends" campaign raised $155,257 between August ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Jan, 2003 at 8:38 in
Abortion, Population | Author:
By Samantha Singson
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 the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 May, 2002 at 8:32 in
Abortion, Editorials, Population | Author:
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 rate ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Apr, 2002 at 8:03 in
Population | Author:
Austin Ruse
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 world will sink well below replacement level, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Apr, 2002 at 8:00 in
Population | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
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 ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Aug, 2001 at 13:20 in
Population | Author:
Eli Schuster
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 been relatively ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 May, 2001 at 11:11 in
Paul Tuns, Population | Author:
Paul Tuns
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. If every family over there was allowed to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Jan, 2001 at 13:27 in
Population | Author:
Austin Ruse
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 Milestones") issued in November almost completely contradicts a report issued a month ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Sep, 2000 at 13:49 in
Population, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups | Author:
Paul Tuns
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 Gates campaign to urge him to end his funding of population control programs through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
According ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Mar, 2000 at 10:17 in
Columnist, Issues, Motherhood, Population | Author:
Fr Ted Colleton
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 predictions of Thomas Malthus, that the population growth would outrun the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Oct, 1999 at 9:23 in
Editorials, Paul Tuns, Population | Author:
Paul Tuns
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 his 1994 book, Rethinking Life and Death, that ... (Continue reading)
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