Furthering the Gay Agenda, stem cell researchers at Cambridge University funded by the Wellcome Trust, along with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, have shown that skin from a pair of homosexuals can be used to manufacture human egg and sperm, in the hopes that normal sexual intercourse can be unnecessary for procreation.
For background, read Scientists Create Artificial Human Eggs and Sperm as well as Gay Procreation: Successful Offspring from Two Males
Also read President Obama's FDA: Why not Three Biological Parents?
And read Everyone Pays for 'Gay Fertility' Treatments in California
UPDATE 8/3/15: Teenage 'Boy' Harvests Own Eggs to be Mother & Transgender 'Father'
-- From "Cell breakthrough to bring two-dad babies" by Lois Rogers, The UK Sunday Times 2/22/15
The breakthrough raises the prospect of the first fully “manufactured” baby made in a laboratory dish from the skin cells of two adults of the same gender.
The researchers admitted that the development raised serious ethical issues, but said it would help people who had become infertile through disease and had also prompted interest from gay people.
Azim Surani who is leading the cell project, was also involved in the research that led to the birth of Louise Brown Azim Surani who is leading the cell project, was also involved in the research that led to the birth of Louise Brown.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Breakthrough paves way for same sex couple babies" by PTI, posted at The Financial Express 2/22/15
Researchers have previously created live baby mice using engineered eggs and sperm, but until now have struggled to create a human version of these ‘primordial germ’ or stem cells.
The team has compared the engineered germ cells with natural human stem cells taken from aborted human foetuses to check that the artificially created versions of the cells had identical characteristics, ‘The Times’ reported.
“We have also discovered that one of the things that happens in these germ cells is that epigenetic mutations, the cell mistakes that occur with age, are wiped out,” said Surani, who was involved in research that led to the birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby, in 1978.
Jacob Hanna, the specialist leading the project’s Israeli arm, said it may be possible to use the technique to create a baby in just two years.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Babies from same sex couples now possible following stem cell breakthrough" by Hannah Osborne, International Business Times 2/23/15
Publishing their findings in the journal Cell, researchers used the skin from five adults to create stem cells that make sperm and eggs in the body. In total, they have created new cell lines from ten different donor sources - five embyros and five adults.
The team compared compared the engineered stem cells with natural human stem cells from aborted human foetuses to check they have identical characteristics, the Sunday Times reports.
Jacob Hanna, from the Weizmann Institute, added: "It has already caused interest from gay groups because of the possibility of making egg and sperm cells from parents of the same sex."
However, he said they are aware of the vast ethical concerns their findings raise in terms of the potential for designer babies: "I am not in favour of creating engineered humans and the social and ethical implications need to be thought through."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Toddler to 'Own' 11 Future Children: An IVF Wonder
And read Boy 'Created' Artificially to Cure Sister's Disease
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Monday, February 23, 2015
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Supreme Court: Homosexual Behavior Illegal in India
India's Supreme Court ruled that the historical law against homosexual sex shall remain in place in the world's largest democracy unless or until the Parliament changes such laws. The highest court decision negated a lower court ruling from 2009 that decriminalized homosexual behavior.
For background, click headlines below to read previous articles:
Russia Outlaws Homosexual Propaganda, Kissing
'Gay Marriage' Flops in Expanding European Union
'Gay Marriage' NOT America's Choice: Poll Study
Pope Calls All Religions to Team Up Against Gay Agenda
-- From "Top Indian court upholds law making gay sex a crime" by The Associated Press 12/11/13
The law, dating back to the 1860s, when Britain ruled over South Asia, states that "whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal" can be punished by up to 10 years in prison.
The 2009 New Delhi High Court ruling, which said the law violated fundamental human rights, infuriated conservatives and religious groups who say homosexuality represents a threat to traditional Indian culture.
In a rare alliance, the groups — including the All India Muslim Law Board, Christian groups and Hindu spiritual leaders — argued that gay sex is unnatural and that India should maintain the law.
Lawyers and supporters of gays, lesbians and transsexuals vowed to continue pressing for the removal of the law, which they say encourages discrimination, even if it is rarely invoked by prosecutors.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Court in India criminalizes homosexuality" by Annie Gowen and Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post 12/11/13
Human rights activists called the move a “major setback” to the decade-long fight against the law — known as “Section 377” — which was ruled unconstitutional by a Delhi High Court in 2009. That victory has long been seen as watershed moment for the country’s burgeoning gay-rights movement — in a still traditional and deeply religious society where many homosexuals have long felt the need to conceal their sexual identities, and even marry members of the opposite sex, because of the stigma attached.
. . . in the years since homosexuality was decriminalized, human rights activists say, more gay, lesbian and transgendered Indians have felt freer to gather and talk about their sexuality openly. Colorful pride parades are more common, and there is even a gay radio station — Q Radio — in Bangalore, the country’s high-tech capital.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Court Restores India’s Ban on Gay Sex" by Gardiner Harris, New York Times 12/11/13
. . . Indians are in the main deeply conservative about issues of sexuality and personal morality. National surveys show that Indians widely disapprove of homosexuality and, on average, have few sexual partners throughout their lives.
Asian nations typically take a more restrictive view of homosexuality than Western countries. In China, gay sex is not explicitly outlawed, but people can get arrested under ill-defined laws like licentiousness.
India’s judges have a long history of judicial activism that would be all but unimaginable in the United States. . . . But legalizing gay sex was one step too far for India’s top judges, and in a rare instance of judicial modesty they deferred to India’s legislators.
There is almost no chance that Parliament will act where the Supreme Court did not, advocates and opponents of the law agreed. And with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a conservative Hindu nationalist group, appearing in ascendancy before national elections in the spring, the prospect of any legislative change in the next few years is highly unlikely, analysts said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
For background, click headlines below to read previous articles:
Russia Outlaws Homosexual Propaganda, Kissing
'Gay Marriage' Flops in Expanding European Union
'Gay Marriage' NOT America's Choice: Poll Study
Pope Calls All Religions to Team Up Against Gay Agenda
-- From "Top Indian court upholds law making gay sex a crime" by The Associated Press 12/11/13
The law, dating back to the 1860s, when Britain ruled over South Asia, states that "whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal" can be punished by up to 10 years in prison.
The 2009 New Delhi High Court ruling, which said the law violated fundamental human rights, infuriated conservatives and religious groups who say homosexuality represents a threat to traditional Indian culture.
In a rare alliance, the groups — including the All India Muslim Law Board, Christian groups and Hindu spiritual leaders — argued that gay sex is unnatural and that India should maintain the law.
Lawyers and supporters of gays, lesbians and transsexuals vowed to continue pressing for the removal of the law, which they say encourages discrimination, even if it is rarely invoked by prosecutors.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Court in India criminalizes homosexuality" by Annie Gowen and Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post 12/11/13
Human rights activists called the move a “major setback” to the decade-long fight against the law — known as “Section 377” — which was ruled unconstitutional by a Delhi High Court in 2009. That victory has long been seen as watershed moment for the country’s burgeoning gay-rights movement — in a still traditional and deeply religious society where many homosexuals have long felt the need to conceal their sexual identities, and even marry members of the opposite sex, because of the stigma attached.
. . . in the years since homosexuality was decriminalized, human rights activists say, more gay, lesbian and transgendered Indians have felt freer to gather and talk about their sexuality openly. Colorful pride parades are more common, and there is even a gay radio station — Q Radio — in Bangalore, the country’s high-tech capital.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Court Restores India’s Ban on Gay Sex" by Gardiner Harris, New York Times 12/11/13
. . . Indians are in the main deeply conservative about issues of sexuality and personal morality. National surveys show that Indians widely disapprove of homosexuality and, on average, have few sexual partners throughout their lives.
Asian nations typically take a more restrictive view of homosexuality than Western countries. In China, gay sex is not explicitly outlawed, but people can get arrested under ill-defined laws like licentiousness.
India’s judges have a long history of judicial activism that would be all but unimaginable in the United States. . . . But legalizing gay sex was one step too far for India’s top judges, and in a rare instance of judicial modesty they deferred to India’s legislators.
There is almost no chance that Parliament will act where the Supreme Court did not, advocates and opponents of the law agreed. And with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a conservative Hindu nationalist group, appearing in ascendancy before national elections in the spring, the prospect of any legislative change in the next few years is highly unlikely, analysts said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Worldwide Abortion: The War on Girls
In her new book "Unnatural Selection," Science writer Mara Hvistendahl examines how the trend toward choosing boys over girls through sex-selective abortions has spread through the developing world, particularly in Asia.
-- From "Western Governments Are Blamed for Asia's Shortage of Women" by Ujala Sehgal, The Atlantic 6/18/11
. . . what distinguishes Hvistendahl's book from other similar reports is that, as the Guardian notes in a profile today, she "lays the blame squarely on western governments and businesses that have exported technology and pro-abortion practices without considering the consequences," unlike other accounts, that solely basing sex selection on cultural practices.
Amniocentesis and ultrasound scans have had largely positive applications in the west, where they have been used to detect fetal abnormalities. But exported to Asia and eastern Europe they have been intricately linked to an explosion of sex selection and a mushrooming of female abortions. Hvistendahl claims western governments actively promoted abortion and sex selection in the developing world, encouraging the liberalization of abortion laws and subsidizing sales of ultrasounds as a form of population control.
Moreover, she also blames the UNFPA, the UN's main population agency, for refusing to own up to its role in funding sex-selection.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "The War Against Girls" by Jonathan V. Last, senior writer at the Weekly Standard (posted at Wall Street Journal) 6/18/11
In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that's as far as the natural window goes. Any other number is the result of unnatural events.
Yet today in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121—though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark. China's and India's populations are mammoth enough that their outlying sex ratios have skewed the global average to a biologically impossible 107. But the imbalance is not only in Asia. Azerbaijan stands at 115, Georgia at 118 and Armenia at 120.
What is causing the skewed ratio: abortion. If the male number in the sex ratio is above 106, it means that couples are having abortions when they find out the mother is carrying a girl. By Ms. Hvistendahl's counting, there have been so many sex-selective abortions in the past three decades that 163 million girls, who by biological averages should have been born, are missing from the world. Moral horror aside, this is likely to be of very large consequence.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Sex selection and the rise of Generation XY" by Ed Pilkington, UK Guardian 6/17/11
In 1979 China signed a $50m four-year deal with a UN body designed to help it control its spiralling population through family planning. It was the largest foreign aid package Beijing had accepted in almost 20 years.
But the funds became entwined in China's one-child policy that was just taking hold, and instead of sponsoring an education drive for small families, the money was used to pay for posters in Chinese villages proclaiming "You can abort it! But you cannot give birth to it."
The story of the complicity of the UNFPA, the UN's main population agency, in the tyranny of China's forced abortion policy is just one of the examples given in [Hvistendahl's] book that explores western involvement in what has become a modern scourge: sex selection.
"It took millions of dollars in funding from US organisations for sex determination and abortion to catch on in the developing world," she writes.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
China Focuses Its Totalitarian Birth Control
13 Million Unborn Murdered Annually in China
China's One-child Policy Propagates Gendercide
Females Victims of Sex-selection Abortion
Crisis in India: Millions of Missing Girls Aborted
Sweden Approves Sex-selection Abortion
Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.UPDATE 6/21/11: Private U.S. firms advertise sex-selective services
-- From "Western Governments Are Blamed for Asia's Shortage of Women" by Ujala Sehgal, The Atlantic 6/18/11
. . . what distinguishes Hvistendahl's book from other similar reports is that, as the Guardian notes in a profile today, she "lays the blame squarely on western governments and businesses that have exported technology and pro-abortion practices without considering the consequences," unlike other accounts, that solely basing sex selection on cultural practices.
Amniocentesis and ultrasound scans have had largely positive applications in the west, where they have been used to detect fetal abnormalities. But exported to Asia and eastern Europe they have been intricately linked to an explosion of sex selection and a mushrooming of female abortions. Hvistendahl claims western governments actively promoted abortion and sex selection in the developing world, encouraging the liberalization of abortion laws and subsidizing sales of ultrasounds as a form of population control.
Moreover, she also blames the UNFPA, the UN's main population agency, for refusing to own up to its role in funding sex-selection.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "The War Against Girls" by Jonathan V. Last, senior writer at the Weekly Standard (posted at Wall Street Journal) 6/18/11
In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that's as far as the natural window goes. Any other number is the result of unnatural events.
Yet today in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121—though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark. China's and India's populations are mammoth enough that their outlying sex ratios have skewed the global average to a biologically impossible 107. But the imbalance is not only in Asia. Azerbaijan stands at 115, Georgia at 118 and Armenia at 120.
What is causing the skewed ratio: abortion. If the male number in the sex ratio is above 106, it means that couples are having abortions when they find out the mother is carrying a girl. By Ms. Hvistendahl's counting, there have been so many sex-selective abortions in the past three decades that 163 million girls, who by biological averages should have been born, are missing from the world. Moral horror aside, this is likely to be of very large consequence.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Sex selection and the rise of Generation XY" by Ed Pilkington, UK Guardian 6/17/11
In 1979 China signed a $50m four-year deal with a UN body designed to help it control its spiralling population through family planning. It was the largest foreign aid package Beijing had accepted in almost 20 years.
But the funds became entwined in China's one-child policy that was just taking hold, and instead of sponsoring an education drive for small families, the money was used to pay for posters in Chinese villages proclaiming "You can abort it! But you cannot give birth to it."
The story of the complicity of the UNFPA, the UN's main population agency, in the tyranny of China's forced abortion policy is just one of the examples given in [Hvistendahl's] book that explores western involvement in what has become a modern scourge: sex selection.
"It took millions of dollars in funding from US organisations for sex determination and abortion to catch on in the developing world," she writes.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
China Focuses Its Totalitarian Birth Control
13 Million Unborn Murdered Annually in China
China's One-child Policy Propagates Gendercide
Females Victims of Sex-selection Abortion
Crisis in India: Millions of Missing Girls Aborted
Sweden Approves Sex-selection Abortion
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Obama on Jihad: Islam is a Great Religion
Responding to a question at a "town hall" meeting with students at St. Xavier College in Mumbai, India, President Obama satisfied Islamists and pundits in India, but his own explanation of jihad and the greatness of Islam plays differently with American victims of terrorist attacks:
"The phrase Jihad has a lot of meaning within Islam. Islam is one of the world's great religions and more than a billion people who practise Islam, an overwhelming majority, view their obligations to their religion as the one that reaffirms peace, justice and fairness," the President responded.
UPDATE 7/27/13: President Obama Praises Islam for Making America What It Is
-- From "Obama connects with students" by Rahul Wadke, The Hindu Business Line 11/7/10
. . . right away came a straight yorker from a 20-year-old student: “What is your take on Jihad?”
Stumped briefly, Mr Obama said that jihad has different meanings in Islam and is subject to different interpretations.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Muslim leaders approve Obama's 'jihad' remarks" by Bhaskar Roy, The Times of India 11/8/10
NEW DELHI: Muslim activists and opinion-makers on Sunday widely approved of President Barack Obama's remarks on jihad without hiding their reservations about the US policy towards the current turomil in the Islamic world.
In their opinion Obama's comments on jihad at Mumbai's St Xavier's College earlier in the day was a clear attempt at separating the violent campaign from the basic concept of jihad.
"Jihad can in no way assume the form of violence against the innocent and those who are perpetrating such violent acts have done great disservice to Islam," said Kamal Farooqi, a prominent member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. "To that extent President Obama is correct," he said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Obama Pointedly Questioned by Students in India" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times 11/7/10
He carefully avoided saying that he was opposed to jihad — which has several meanings, including both holy war and a personal quest for self-improvement — and instead said: “I think all of us recognize that this great religion in the hands of a few extremists has been distorted to justify violence towards innocent people that is never justified. And so, I think, one of the challenges that we face is, how do we isolate those who have these distorted notions of religious war.”
While Mr. Obama was dancing around questions — figuratively speaking — on Sunday, he also participated in some literal dancing, showing off some moves that, to the delight of photographers traveling with him, are likely to provide iconic images of his trip. Mr. Obama’s short performance came after student dancers doing a show for him implored him to join in.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
"The phrase Jihad has a lot of meaning within Islam. Islam is one of the world's great religions and more than a billion people who practise Islam, an overwhelming majority, view their obligations to their religion as the one that reaffirms peace, justice and fairness," the President responded.
UPDATE 7/27/13: President Obama Praises Islam for Making America What It Is
-- From "Obama connects with students" by Rahul Wadke, The Hindu Business Line 11/7/10
. . . right away came a straight yorker from a 20-year-old student: “What is your take on Jihad?”
Stumped briefly, Mr Obama said that jihad has different meanings in Islam and is subject to different interpretations.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Muslim leaders approve Obama's 'jihad' remarks" by Bhaskar Roy, The Times of India 11/8/10
NEW DELHI: Muslim activists and opinion-makers on Sunday widely approved of President Barack Obama's remarks on jihad without hiding their reservations about the US policy towards the current turomil in the Islamic world.
In their opinion Obama's comments on jihad at Mumbai's St Xavier's College earlier in the day was a clear attempt at separating the violent campaign from the basic concept of jihad.
"Jihad can in no way assume the form of violence against the innocent and those who are perpetrating such violent acts have done great disservice to Islam," said Kamal Farooqi, a prominent member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. "To that extent President Obama is correct," he said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Obama Pointedly Questioned by Students in India" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times 11/7/10
He carefully avoided saying that he was opposed to jihad — which has several meanings, including both holy war and a personal quest for self-improvement — and instead said: “I think all of us recognize that this great religion in the hands of a few extremists has been distorted to justify violence towards innocent people that is never justified. And so, I think, one of the challenges that we face is, how do we isolate those who have these distorted notions of religious war.”
While Mr. Obama was dancing around questions — figuratively speaking — on Sunday, he also participated in some literal dancing, showing off some moves that, to the delight of photographers traveling with him, are likely to provide iconic images of his trip. Mr. Obama’s short performance came after student dancers doing a show for him implored him to join in.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Sexualized Society = Meaninglessness of Life
Personal and economic freedom of young adults in India has resulted in rampant unmarried sex and abortion, including use of abortifacients.
-- From "As use of morning-after pills rises in India, health workers voice concerns" by Emily Wax, Washington Post Foreign Service 1/2/10
As the nation's economic boom draws growing numbers of young people into the workforce, they are leaving the confines of family, moving to big cities and often declaring their independence through sex.
Doctors report that use of the ["morning after"] I-pill, which can prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, is soaring. But they also worry that young women are misusing the pill by taking it too often or in place of contraceptives.
Many young women report using the emergency contraceptive pills several times a month instead of using condoms, increasing the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, gynecologists say. This year, dozens of ads for the I-pill, also known worldwide as the morning-after pill, have flooded Indian TV channels, highway billboards and women's magazines.
Many gynecologists and health workers say that the pills have helped women avoid abortions, which are legal in India but are often performed by untrained workers in unsanitary conditions. Health workers say the pill's availability also empowers women, who face many hurdles in the country's tradition-bound, patriarchal culture.
As many as 7 million abortions are performed in India annually, and more than 20,000 women die of botched abortions each year, according to the Mumbai-based Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India. The group says that the number of deaths is probably higher in reality because many families and health workers are afraid to report them.
Few restrictions have been placed on the pill's availability. In interviews, several high school and college students in New Delhi and Mumbai said they were using I-pills but not informing their parents. More than 70 percent of India's population of 1.16 billion is younger than 35.
To read the entire article, CLICK HERE.
-- From "As use of morning-after pills rises in India, health workers voice concerns" by Emily Wax, Washington Post Foreign Service 1/2/10
As the nation's economic boom draws growing numbers of young people into the workforce, they are leaving the confines of family, moving to big cities and often declaring their independence through sex.
Doctors report that use of the ["morning after"] I-pill, which can prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, is soaring. But they also worry that young women are misusing the pill by taking it too often or in place of contraceptives.
Many young women report using the emergency contraceptive pills several times a month instead of using condoms, increasing the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, gynecologists say. This year, dozens of ads for the I-pill, also known worldwide as the morning-after pill, have flooded Indian TV channels, highway billboards and women's magazines.
Many gynecologists and health workers say that the pills have helped women avoid abortions, which are legal in India but are often performed by untrained workers in unsanitary conditions. Health workers say the pill's availability also empowers women, who face many hurdles in the country's tradition-bound, patriarchal culture.
As many as 7 million abortions are performed in India annually, and more than 20,000 women die of botched abortions each year, according to the Mumbai-based Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India. The group says that the number of deaths is probably higher in reality because many families and health workers are afraid to report them.
Few restrictions have been placed on the pill's availability. In interviews, several high school and college students in New Delhi and Mumbai said they were using I-pills but not informing their parents. More than 70 percent of India's population of 1.16 billion is younger than 35.
To read the entire article, CLICK HERE.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Hillary Agrees 'Family Planning' Critical to Global Warming
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking about her meeting in Mumbai, India, said, “one of the participants pointed out that it’s rather odd to talk about climate change and what we must do to stop and prevent the ill effects without talking about population and family planning. That was an incredibly important point.”
UPDATE 10/28/14: Limiting Births Fails to Save Earth, Says Government Report
UPDATE 9/22/09: Obama White House Advises 'Green' Abortions
UPDATE 9/20/09: World Health Organization Says Earth's Enemy is Too Many Babies
UPDATE 10/20/09: Environmentalists Say Trade Babies For Climate Change
-- From "Hillary Clinton talks climate change in India" by John Ward Anderson, Politico 7/20/09
Hillary Clinton, in her first visit to India as secretary of state, said Sunday that the United States and India can work together to combat global warming and at the same time spark economic growth and generate new jobs.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Universal family planning access" by Duncan Clark, UK Guardian 7/13/09
Global investment in family planning and female education could slow down global population growth, reducing future emissions and tackling climate change vulnerability.
Demographic factors will play a significant role in determining future emissions. The most obvious such factor is the global population, which is expected to rise to around nine billion by 2050.
Rising population is significant not only as a driver of emissions but also as a key factor in determining the vulnerability of developing countries to the impacts of global warming. In almost all of the climate change adaptation plans submitted to the United Nations by least-developed countries, rapid population growth is mentioned as something that either exacerbates vulnerability or impedes adaption. More than half of these least-developed countries will at least double in population by the middle of the century.
Ensuring universal access to family planning services and investing in female education is a pivotal climate change solution, Louise Carver of the Population and Sustainability Network (PSN) told the the Manchester panel. According to Carver, 200 million women wish to delay or prevent their next pregnancy but lack access to contraception. Despite this fact, and the sharp projected growth rate in potential contraception users, global investment in family planning is at an all-time low, having declined by 30% in real terms since the mid-1990s.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Clinton Accepts Blame for ‘Global Warming’ Role, Ponders Link Between Climate Change and Family Planning" by Patrick Goodenough, International Editor CNSNews.com 7/20/09
Some green activists have long advocated a greater focus on population control in the climate change campaign.
In a position paper adopted by its board of directors in November 2007, the Sierra Club said, “Given the grave implications of population growth, the Sierra Club urges greater effort to explain how population pressure is affecting the environment and stronger support for the program – family planning, health care, and education and opportunity for women – that most effectively encourages smaller families.”
Identifying an average of two children per family as a requirement to stabilize the world population, the paper said the Sierra Club “welcomes non-coercive, culturally sensitive policies that will help lower birth rates, stabilize global population, and make a smaller population a realistic possibility.”
In 2007, an Australian academic argued that a government campaign to encourage bigger families was flying in the face of the fight against climate change.
Rather than offering couples financial incentives to have more children, he said, a tax should be levied on parents who have more than an agreed number of children, “in line with the ‘polluter pays’ principle.”
The Chinese government, which enforces a controversial and often coercive birth limitation policy, has listed its population control efforts among its contributions to combating climate change.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
UPDATE 10/28/14: Limiting Births Fails to Save Earth, Says Government Report
UPDATE 9/22/09: Obama White House Advises 'Green' Abortions
UPDATE 9/20/09: World Health Organization Says Earth's Enemy is Too Many Babies
UPDATE 10/20/09: Environmentalists Say Trade Babies For Climate Change
-- From "Hillary Clinton talks climate change in India" by John Ward Anderson, Politico 7/20/09
Hillary Clinton, in her first visit to India as secretary of state, said Sunday that the United States and India can work together to combat global warming and at the same time spark economic growth and generate new jobs.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Universal family planning access" by Duncan Clark, UK Guardian 7/13/09
Global investment in family planning and female education could slow down global population growth, reducing future emissions and tackling climate change vulnerability.
Demographic factors will play a significant role in determining future emissions. The most obvious such factor is the global population, which is expected to rise to around nine billion by 2050.
Rising population is significant not only as a driver of emissions but also as a key factor in determining the vulnerability of developing countries to the impacts of global warming. In almost all of the climate change adaptation plans submitted to the United Nations by least-developed countries, rapid population growth is mentioned as something that either exacerbates vulnerability or impedes adaption. More than half of these least-developed countries will at least double in population by the middle of the century.
Ensuring universal access to family planning services and investing in female education is a pivotal climate change solution, Louise Carver of the Population and Sustainability Network (PSN) told the the Manchester panel. According to Carver, 200 million women wish to delay or prevent their next pregnancy but lack access to contraception. Despite this fact, and the sharp projected growth rate in potential contraception users, global investment in family planning is at an all-time low, having declined by 30% in real terms since the mid-1990s.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Clinton Accepts Blame for ‘Global Warming’ Role, Ponders Link Between Climate Change and Family Planning" by Patrick Goodenough, International Editor CNSNews.com 7/20/09
Some green activists have long advocated a greater focus on population control in the climate change campaign.
In a position paper adopted by its board of directors in November 2007, the Sierra Club said, “Given the grave implications of population growth, the Sierra Club urges greater effort to explain how population pressure is affecting the environment and stronger support for the program – family planning, health care, and education and opportunity for women – that most effectively encourages smaller families.”
Identifying an average of two children per family as a requirement to stabilize the world population, the paper said the Sierra Club “welcomes non-coercive, culturally sensitive policies that will help lower birth rates, stabilize global population, and make a smaller population a realistic possibility.”
In 2007, an Australian academic argued that a government campaign to encourage bigger families was flying in the face of the fight against climate change.
Rather than offering couples financial incentives to have more children, he said, a tax should be levied on parents who have more than an agreed number of children, “in line with the ‘polluter pays’ principle.”
The Chinese government, which enforces a controversial and often coercive birth limitation policy, has listed its population control efforts among its contributions to combating climate change.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Indian "Genocide" of Girls by Abortion Exposed in New Book "Disappearing Daughters"
Wealth and education and appear to make it MORE likely that people will kill their daughters. Valuing human life is a distinctly Christian value. We discard Biblical values at our own peril...
From "Indian "Genocide" of Girls by Abortion Exposed in New Book "Disappearing Daughters" by Hilary White, posted 7/23/07 at Lifesite.org
Unwanted girl babies in India are killed after birth by a variety of methods including being smothered with a pillow or cloth, drowned in milk, fed poisoned seeds or burned alive in sealed mud pots; but according to a recently published book, the most popular form of femicide is now abortion, with the assistance of ultrasound to determine the child's sex.
"Disappearing Daughters", a new book by an Indian woman journalist, Gita Aravamudhan, published by Penguin Books, calls "female foeticide" "an organized crime."
From "Indian "Genocide" of Girls by Abortion Exposed in New Book "Disappearing Daughters" by Hilary White, posted 7/23/07 at Lifesite.org
Unwanted girl babies in India are killed after birth by a variety of methods including being smothered with a pillow or cloth, drowned in milk, fed poisoned seeds or burned alive in sealed mud pots; but according to a recently published book, the most popular form of femicide is now abortion, with the assistance of ultrasound to determine the child's sex.
"Disappearing Daughters", a new book by an Indian woman journalist, Gita Aravamudhan, published by Penguin Books, calls "female foeticide" "an organized crime."
"The ultrasound machine has mutated into an instrument of murder," she said. Aravamudhan writes in the preface that the book started as a journalistic "story" like any other, but soon escalated into the biggest issue she had ever investigated. "Female infanticide is akin to serial killing. But female foeticide was more like a holocaust. A whole gender is getting exterminated."
A recent report by UNICEF said India kills almost 7,000 girls per day by abortion. Recent statistics show that the population of India is heavily weighted towards males with only 927 females for every 1,000 males, a contrast from the usual 1050 females in other countries. UK-based medical journal, the Lancet estimates the number of girls killed by abortion in India at 10 million over the last 20 years.
It is a silent and smoothly executed crime," Aravamudhan writes, "which leaves no waves in its wake. It is happening while we, as a nation, slumber. In some parts of the country almost two generations of women have been exterminated before I completed this book and there is still no solution in sight."In an interview with The Hindu, Aravamudhan, described as a writer on "gender" issues for 27 years, said she was shocked to find that female "foeticide" was most common among the wealthy and well educated.
"Foeticide happened among the rich, the powerful, the educated; those who were aware of family planning!…There was a deep link between female foeticide and factors like wealth, education, success of family planning, and medical progress," she said.
With most international aid organisations working in India pushing abortion and smaller families, a book such as this contrasts with official government-sponsored population control campaigns. LifeSiteNews.com editor John Henry Westen, during a trip to India last year, reported that even among the strongly Catholic Christian population of Kerala, small families are considered "moral."
Westen interviewed Sunny Kattukaran, the leader of a pro-life group in India known as Trust God (Pro-Life) Ministry, who laid the blame squarely on western-based population control movements.
"The Americans, the UN and other funding agents, when they release some funds as loans they ask our statistics on birth control, and insist on family planning criteria, only then do they pump money," Kattukaran said.
It also looks like health clinics are participating in the genocide by killing newborn baby girls...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Crisis in India: Millions of Missing Girls Aborted
From There Really is a Crisis Situation" -- India's Millions of Missing Girls Abortion, posted Feb. 22, 2007, by Albert Mohler, for www.AlbertMohler.com
The Associated Press is out with a rather amazing news report. It seems that India is now ready to raise unwanted baby girls in special orphanages throughout the nation. The practice of female infanticide is so widespread in India that a gender imbalance threatens the future vitality of Indian society.
From the report:
Read the rest of this commentary.
The Associated Press is out with a rather amazing news report. It seems that India is now ready to raise unwanted baby girls in special orphanages throughout the nation. The practice of female infanticide is so widespread in India that a gender imbalance threatens the future vitality of Indian society.
From the report:
The Indian government plans to set up a series of orphanages to raise unwanted baby girls in a bid to halt the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses, according to a senior government official.
Dubbed the "cradle scheme," the plan is an attempt to slow the practice that international groups say has killed more than 10 million female fetuses in the last two decades, leading to an alarming imbalance in the ratio between males and females in India, Renuka Chowdhury, the minister of state for women and child development, told the Press Trust of India news agency in an interview published Sunday.
"What we are saying to the people is have your children, don't kill them. And if you don't want a girl child, leave her to us," Chowdhury told the agency, adding that the government planned to set up a center in each regional district.
"We will bring up the children. But don't kill them because there really is a crisis situation," she said.
Do American abortion rights advocates base that sense of elevated morality only on the reason given for an abortion? Are they against sex-selection abortions only? One must wonder how they can make that argument with a straight face, since the movement insists that a woman should have unrestricted acccess to abortion for whatever reason she chooses -- or no stated reason whatsoever.Read the rest of this commentary.
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