Population Matters - The Durango Herald

Let her decide if or when she wants to have children

“Father slapped his hand on the table. ‘If Sarah was a boy, she would be the greatest jurist in South Carolina!’” This quote is from Sue Monk Kidd’s popular novel, The Invention o...

DATE: Feb 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Practice the fine art of speaking truth to power

While watching the presidential election returns in November and disbelieving the results, this poem kept going through my head: “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” by We...

DATE: Jan 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Stay up with international family-planning efforts

Although reproductive rights may be in jeopardy in this country, there is reason for optimism both here and abroad. India has the world’s second largest population – about a billi...

DATE: Dec 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Schools one way to give children every advantage

New parents hope that their children will be perfect. Unfortunately, there is often disappointment when reality sets in. We have always cared about the welfare of our children, bu...

DATE: Nov 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Voting is a good way to shape the world you want

We have the opportunity to vote, and thus help shape our world – both nationally and locally. Please vote, even if you don’t follow my suggestions! Most politicians have personali...

DATE: Nov 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Voting is a good way to shape the world you want

We have the opportunity to vote, and thus help shape our world – both nationally and locally. Please vote, even if you don’t follow my suggestions! Most politicians have personali...

DATE: Oct 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Stop relying on Band-Aids and ‘move upstream’

Laura and Phil Olaniyi formerly lived in Durango but moved to Mozambique where they are starting an orphanage, “Heart for the Needy.” Let’s look at some of the statistics for this East Afric...

DATE: Sep 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Honor those people who have chosen to be child-free

I stopped in a store on Main Avenue to buy a Christmas present. When I returned the proprietor’s greeting and asked how he was, he replied honestly. “Not too good.” He had just broken up wit...

DATE: Aug 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

In looking at fluoride, evaluate the ‘facts’ carefully

In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed “Ten Great Public Health Achievements of the 20th Century.” Family planning is one. Another is “Fluoridation of Drinking Water ...

DATE: Jul 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Advocate for long-acting, reversible contraception

Your doctor tells you that she can prescribe either of two treatments, but that one is 20 times as likely to fail as the other. Which would you choose? Over a quarter of women in ...

DATE: Jun 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Responding to my climate change denying friends

A letter to the editor (Herald, Jan. 10) got my attention. It would seem that its author and I are living on different planets. The writer calls professor and former NASA scientis...

DATE: May 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Humans are driving Earth’s sixth mass extinction

Last summer a big game hunter from Minnesota shot Cecil, a famous male lion, in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean officials didn’t press charges against Cecil’s killer. Many people in this...

DATE: Apr 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters