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Making family planning available to all people

The Cairo Conference “Programme of Action” includes a statement that all people should have the right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children. Unhappily, ma...

DATE: Oct 5, 2024 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Vasectomy motivators are ‘Realizing Quality Families’

I was walking down the street in Mountain View, California, when I noticed a man coming toward me wearing a white T-shirt with small black lettering: “SEEDLESS.” I wonder if he was advertisi...

DATE: Sep 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Knowing Ukrainian refugees makes war much more personal

“We believe that widespread, effective and voluntary use of medically sound and individually acceptable birth control is an essential factor in any humane design to raise world living standa...

DATE: Mar 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Joining family planning with cultural tradition lowers birth rate

Last month, I wrote about the five countries I have enjoyed visiting in Africa, including citing their amazingly low per capita GDP. Although most of the population growth over the next deca...

DATE: Feb 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

African countries need to slow population growth to prevent famine

I have had the good fortune to have visited five of the 54 countries in Africa. Each has left me with a strong image. When I think of Cairo, Egypt, I think of a man leading a donkey cart wit...

DATE: Jan 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Costa Rica has a law to make men responsible for their children

A chance encounter in a parking lot gave me the idea for this month’s essay. “Why not make a man responsible for the cost of raising any child he fathers?” “That’s a great idea!” I said, the...

DATE: Dec 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Give thanks for good news about population growth

The world our three granddaughters will inherit will be different from the world that we have known. I hope that their world in half a century is not too ghastly – and there is reason to sup...

DATE: Nov 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

It’s past time for Colorado to tackle the ‘pink tax’

We’re all aware that the role of women has changed in the last centuries, but probably less aware that their biology has also changed. Together, these changes have helped change society. Cur...

DATE: Sep 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Taking action on climate chaos

If you don’t believe that the climate is changing, please don’t read this but make an appointment with a psychiatrist; you are out of touch with reality. I have not written about climate cha...

DATE: Sep 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Liberate ‘The Pill’

Do you think that a medication that kills more than 3,000 people in the U.S. annually should be available without a prescription, even though it has health benefits? What about another medic...

DATE: Aug 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Op-Ed

Declining birth rate is good news, not the worry reported

“U.S. birth rates are declining. This trend is cause for concern, because an aging population puts a strain on the economy.” – Kimberly Amadeo, in “The Balance,” April 29, 2021 The Centers ...

DATE: Jul 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

This UN population conference changed my life

Twenty-five years ago, I was in hot Cairo for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development. It changed the direction the world has taken and also was life-changi...

DATE: Dec 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters