<![CDATA[Jezebel: Population]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Population]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/population http://jezebel.com/tag/population <![CDATA[World's Seven Billionth Baby Is Adorable Harbinger Of Doom]]> The U.N. estimates that the world's population has just hit seven billion, which is cause for concern and contemplation for some experts. Dr. Eric Tayag of the Philippines' Department of Health said: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5854743&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Should We All Get Sterilized?]]> Arguments about reproductive choice don't usually consider the option of sterilizing the entire human race. So that makes this latest argument special. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5558422&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Has The Recession Ended This Decade's "Baby Boomlet?"]]> According to the Associated Press, the "baby boomlet" of the last decade may be over, thanks to the difficult economic times brought about by the recession, with 68,000 fewer babies being born in 2008 than in 2007. [NYTimes] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5333328&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Is It About Time We Made A "Pregnancy Pact" Of Our Own?]]> The conventional wisdom holds that media types are biased in favor of the Theory of Evolution. So why is it all they seem to print these days are stories hellbent on convincing us that the WRONG PEOPLE are procreating?? No doubt you, too, spent more time over the past few months consuming the latest on the Duggar family and the Spears family, that mysteriously-coiffed cult of inbreds in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Pedophiles and the seventeen bored teenagers' homeless deadbeat boyfriends than you did having unprotected sex. But is that good for the future of society? The Yemeni man who sold his 8-year-old daughter to the 30-year-old child molester only did it because he had 15 other children to feed on his panhandling income. And yet three thousand miles northwest in an unspeakably gorgeous town in Italy, the week's New York Times Magazine informs us, the mayor is paying women ten thousand Euros for every baby they can make. More »
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