Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom

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 »

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Dwight Rousu
4.7
by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 20, 2009

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 in Uganda said. “The economy isn’t going to have enough jobs for all the people we’re saving through PEPFAR.”

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