The Catholic Church and Kenya's government are at odds over a vaccine that religious leaders say is a sterilization drug disguised as a tetanus shot. The Church is advising women not to vaccinate themselves or their children because they might ruin their reproductive future. Meanwhile, political leaders say the drug…
On Tuesday, health officials in India reported eight deaths and nearly 70 more hospitalizations following a horrific sterilization procedure in a government run "health camp." While mass sterilizations under unsanitary and inhumane conditions like this have been known to lead to the deaths of women, this marks the…
After decades of watching as the suburbs boomed and car-friendly strip malls popped up at an alarming rate, fans of city dwelling can finally rejoice. New estimates from the census have found that for the first time in one hundred years, large cities in America are growing at a faster rate than their suburbs.…
Here we were worrying that our dependence on oil and the spewing of industrial waste and the unending overpopulation of our land were the things that were going to ruin our planet. But it turns out what we really should be worried about, according to some new research, is fat people. Wait, huh? Yes, that's right,…
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:
Arguments about reproductive choice don't usually consider the option of sterilizing the entire human race. So that makes this latest argument special.
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]
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…
