Population
Written on 29 Aug, 1995 at 12:16 in
Abortion, Editorials, Equal Rights, Human rights, Issues, Population | Author:
Interim Staff As this paper goes to press, 40,000 of the most powerful and angry women from all around the world will gather in Beijing to rant and rave about their unjust plight. There will also be a pro-family contingent but don’t expect the press to acknowledge their presence.
All rational people (men included) support the just and equal treatment of women. Holding a conference to promote this seems absurd. But equality, as we understand it, is not the issue at this latest ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Aug, 1995 at 9:39 in
Population, Society & Culture | Author:
Fr. Ted Colleton There has been so much in the news recently about last year’s Cairo Conference on Populations and Development and the forthcoming Beijing Women’s Conference in September that I felt myself almost impelled to do some study on world population and the world food situation.
I confined myself to three sources, The War Against the Family, by William D. Gairdner; The War Against Population, by Professor Jacqueline Kasun; and the May 1995 issue of New Federalist, an American publication. In view of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Aug, 1995 at 9:20 in
Population, Society & Culture | Author:
Winifride Prestwich These days, the mere suggestion of a UN conspiracy brings an immediate hail of scorn. However, by tracing the UN’s movements since the 1950s, Winifride Prestwich has put together a pretty good case.
Freedom, both religious and political, can never be taken for granted. In 1995, people in Britain, Ireland, the USA, and Canada are learning, to their dismay, that many of their fundamental and traditional rights have been handed over to the supranational, e.g., the European Union (EU) and the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jun, 1995 at 13:35 in
Abortion, Issues, Marriage and Family, Politics, Population | Author:
Interim Staff Off the Wire
Family Practice News reports that the California Academy of family physicians. Has voted to recommend that all family physicians be trained in abortion techniques and “the importance to access to this medical service.” The group plans to offer a similar resolution at the American Academy of Family Physicians meeting later this year.
A California abortionist accused of murdering a patient in a botched abortion has fled the U.S. Local pro-life groups have criticized District Attorney General Paul Pfingst for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 14:43 in
Politics, Population | Author:
Patrick Ryan The controversy surrounding the United Nation’s Children’s Fund has deepened with the appointment of a long-time abortion advocate as its new director.
Carol Bellamy, a state senator from New York, has been named the new director of UNICEF despite heated criticisms from pro-family circles.
The U.S. Catholic newspaper The Wanderer reports that Cong. Chris Smith (R. N.J.), chairman of the House Sub-committee on International Operations and Human Rights criticized the UN Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali for the appointment.
“Carol Bellamy is a highly ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 9:33 in
Bioethics, Health Risks, Motherhood, Population | Author:
Patricia Ryan Those who follow the workings of the various anti-population organizations have long feared the possibility of an anti-human vaccination.
These fears may now have been realized with the discovery of an anti-tetanus vaccine, administered by the World Health Organization, which may have destroyed the fertility of millions in the Third World.
Several pro-life agencies, including Human Life International and International Right to Life, have discovered that a tetanus vaccine administered to women in the Philippines and Mexico and Nicaragua also contains ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 1995 at 14:30 in
Abortion, Equal Rights, Human rights, Population | Author:
Fr. Ted Collection The Toronto Sun’s Sunday Magazine of March 26 carried an article entitled ‘No Girls Allowed.”
We have all heard of the custom in China and other Eastern countries of killing baby girls—even after birth—as boys are a financial asset to the family, while girls are the opposite. According to statistics given in the article there are some 38 million more men then women in China because of this mass murder of female babies.
I was not aware ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1995 at 11:52 in
Abortion, Motherhood, Population | Author:
Interim Staff It has been well documented that women in China experience terrible persecution under the country’s forced-abortion policy.
Now, one group is hoping that when the United Nations-sponsored Women’s Conference meets in Beijing in September, they will be able to “raise their voices in defence of their Chinese sisters.”
On March 8, the International Coalition on the Family is calling for 180 days of prayer for the women of China leading up to the conference.
“If our future hosts in Beijing want to hold ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1995 at 11:12 in
Politics, Population | Author:
Interim Staff The Canadians went to Copenhagen and told the starving children in underdeveloped countries: “Take the Pill, then we fund clean-water systems for you to swallow it.”
What a disgrace.
UN bureaucrats are alarmed that the richer nations like Canada are cutting back on their foreign-aid dollars. So they propose a levy on international transactions. Just sit back and think about the kind of power an estimated U.S. $1.5 trillion annually gives to a handful of people.
UN policies have long favoured such groups ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 1995 at 9:30 in
Abortion, Euthanasia, Population | Author:
1994 ended a tremendously difficult year for the pro-life movement.
Much of the year was taken up by the Ontario provincial government taking pro-lifers to court in an attempt to gain a province-wide injunction against all forms of pro-life activism. These restrictions swept across the country and the call went out: “Stifle the pro-life voice.”
From Nova Scotia to British Columbia, pro-life organizations were forced to pay huge court costs, money usually used to defend the unborn, in an effort ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Dec, 1994 at 10:55 in
Population | Author:
Canada has a birth rate well below the replacement level. This fundamental defect has implications for various areas of national life including our immigration policy.
Canadians have prided themselves for many years on being a land that welcomes immigrants. We have regarded our immigration policy as a humanitarian one and seen ourselves as being generous and open-minded.
Whether this sweet picture of ourselves was ever actually true can be debated. What is clear is that our low birth rate has ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Dec, 1994 at 16:54 in
Population | Author:
Interim Staff Bill C-41, an Act to amend the Criminal Code with respect to sentencing, introduced June 13, 1994, has become a very contentious bill. This bill, according to the Department of Justice, would provide more options to the courts to distinguish between serious violent crimes and less violent crimes, and would allow greater scope for sentencing. It would also allow more severe punishments to be given for crimes which take advantage of positions of trust.
Justice Minister Allan Rock began ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Oct, 1994 at 13:32 in
Population | Author:
Winifride Prestwich The Interim Global View
From 1974 to 1984, world conditions – both economic and political – were not conducive to encouraging development in the Third World. Developed countries, themselves, were struggling to cope with adverse conditions.
A world recession, high interest rates, distortion in the international monetary system, failure of national and international financial institutions, and high unemployment rates, all affected the standard of living in the developed world.
As a result, the poorer areas of the world suffered even more. Meanwhile, as a result ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Sep, 1994 at 13:02 in
Population | Author:
David Packer, for the Interim On August 17, the United Nations propaganda machine rolled into Toronto to promote its 1994 State of World Population report. A press conference was held to publicize the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, to be held in Cairo in September.
UN Population Projections
World Population
1994 5.6 Billion
1998 6.0 Billion
2025 8.5 Billion
Areas of greatest population increase – Asia, Africa, Latin America
Greatest increase – Africa 2.9% per year
Slowest increase – Europe 0.3% per year
North America – 1.1% per year
The central theme ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Sep, 1994 at 12:53 in
Population | Author:
Winifride Prestwich The Interim This is the second installment of Winifride Prestwich’s historical account of world population control
The Bucharest Conference on population in 1974 marked a turning point in an international effort by a group of Western nations to impose a long-term plan to control the size of the world population, under the banner of the United Nations. This Conference differed from the two earlier ones: Rome (1954), and Belgrade (1965). These two earlier conferences were held by the UN in collaboration with ... (Continue reading)
