At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Both global and poignantly local, the story is well sourced and written, and highly relevant to key problems on our globe and in our neighborhoods.
The dark dogma that is called "pro life" is feeding over-population that leads to poverty, death from AIDS, ignorance, death from wars for resources, starvation, and the threat of mass extinction of species from global climate change and death of the ocean ecosystems. Blind reproduction is becoming reckless homicide.
“Population growth undermines everything we’re trying to do here, all our development efforts as well as political stability,” a senior American official ... More »
This starts off looking anecdotal and unsupported, but eventually gets to plenty of sources and facts. Still some claims are unattributed. Overall a pretty good story.
It is rather feature-like, written more in the style of a story than a news report, and this gives the article - which would otherwise be little more than a dumping ground for statistics - more character. It is slightly opinionated and biased, but it does make an effort to consider both sides of the argument, and backs up its claims with statistics. Despite a small scattering of spelling and grammar mistakes, the article is generally very well-written, although a reduction of the statistic overload would make the article more gripping and less bloated (I can remember very few of the statistics because of how they were all bunched together).
If they don't want so many babies and have no contraception, why do they keep having sex? I try to feel sympathy for these people, but it is hard when their situation is caused by their own lack of common sense.
asked how many were practicing family planning More »
The moron in the White House brought the US an iditoic war in Iraq, and helped exacerbate the overpopulation problem in Sub-Saharan Africa.
facts, talking to the people in Uganda this affects the most; seeing the good side of PEPfAr as well as the bad side. An informative, well written article.
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