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Brits Talk about Population

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Treehugger.com, the popular environmental blog has a post on population with further info on More.

“Green technology may well still save the world. But two British family planning and reproductive health experts, Dr. Pip Hayes and Professor John Guillebaud, say the best green move any British couple can make is to have just two kids, or at least one less than they were perhaps planning on.”

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40 Years Later, an “Infallible” Ban on Modern Birth Control

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Bob writes a piece on Huffington Post about the continuing ban on birth control for women around the world.

The pill, the pill,
I’m pining for the pill.
I’ll never have any more
Because they’re going to bless the pill.

That’s the chorus of a song Scottish folksinger Matt McGinn wrote in 1968 after meeting a mother of 22 who wanted to try the pill. That July, advisors to Pope Paul VI reportedly urged reversal of longstanding Catholic Church opposition to the use of artificial contraception by married couples. Instead, 40 years ago today [July 25, 2008], Paul issued the encyclical known as Humanae Vitae…

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The National Center for Health Statistics reports a population milestone.

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments · News, population

In 2007, a record number of 4,315,000 babies were born in the United States.
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