First up in our series of contrarian articles on contraception: We need Penicillin, not condoms, in Central Africa. The diversion of health care dollars and medical personel from urgent matters like sanitation and into “family planning,” is something that deeply offends many African recipients of foreign aid. This article was written by an attorney in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
No one can fail to weep at a stillborn child or the death of a mother in childbirth. But it is absurd; it is criminally irresponsible, for the United States and international aid agencies to argue that the solution to the DRC’s calamitous maternal mortality is family planning. Read more…
This is gross. Have I given the impression that I’m not fond of Planned Parenthood yet? The latest news was that they were sending birth control and condoms to Haiti! “Sorry you lost 200,000 of your people. Here’s a way to be sure you don’t have any more!” And now using fishy means to try to cut the numbers of poor Ecuadorians. We tax payers had better not be funding this garbage.
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
Planned Parenthood Federation is using children to provide birth-control shots to other children in Ecuador.
The organization is training teenagers — “peer promoters,” they are called — to go into rural areas populated by indigenous people, make contact with other children (ranging in age from 11 to 19), and convince them to let them inoculate them with Depo-Provera, which is birth control. According to Global Health Magazine, the program “meets the needs of a particularly underserved and hard-to-reach group, with a new contraceptive method, in a new way.” Read more…
Oh, terrific. Another China. As though things are just peachy over there. Right now the policy is voluntary, but I wonder how long that will last?
Michael Cook, Mercatornet.com
Bangladesh is going to introduce a voluntary “one couple, one child” population planning policy by 2015 to curb its growing population.
The Director General of the Directorate of Family Planning Mohammad Abdul Qayyum told the Chinese news agency Xinhua that: “The Chinese policy influenced us in framing our policy though we are not making it mandatory.” He said that the government plans to promote a “No more than two children, one is best”.
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Wow. I love the way this guy thinks.
Michael Cook, Mercatornet.com
…Take the Optimum Population Trust, a superannuated gaggle of gimlet-eyed, thin-lipped Gradgrinds who out-Scrooge Scrooge. Their aim is to slash the number of unfeathered bipeds who pollute the earth with carbon emissions. “Everything we manage to achieve for the natural environment is being wiped out by the nearly 80 million extra people each year who need to use up space and resources,” they claim. They have even launched PopOffsets, a charity which offsets your carbon footprint by reducing the number of babies in the developing world. And they have the nerve to describe themselves as a “charity”!
I can just imagine them counting up their miserabilist PopOffset dollars: “Another $7 for the charity, one less baby in Ghana; $21 for the charity, 3 less in Sierra Leone; $35 for the charity; 5 less in Chad.” And after a heavy night out on New Year’s Eve adding to their carbon footprint with champers and fireworks, the new hair of the dog is a donation to PopOffset to scrub a few more babies from the population of Zaire.
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