Biodiversity. Family planning. What’s the link?
More than 26,000 of the world’s species are now threatened, according to the latest assessment of the natural world from the International... Read More
Limiting Access in America to Family Planning Has a High Cost
In a 163-page rule-changing document, “Religious Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act,” as of... Read More
Bill Maher: We Should Have Fewer Resource-Sucking Children
Outspoken comedian Bill Maher of HBO’s popular show Real Time with Bill Maher, taped in Los Angeles, is a mixed bag when... Read More
Cutting off Family Planning Funds will Increase Immigration Pressure
Unfortunately, the current administration has cut off U.S. funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). This political football has been tossed... Read More
Today is International Women’s Day
In Yvon Chouinard’s “Let my people go surfing / the education of a reluctant businessman,” the founder and owner of Patagonia, writes,... Read More
Today is World Vasectomy Day!
Snip to Save the Earth As a proud recipient of a vasectomy in 1997, a year after the birth of my second... Read More
Gutting Family Planning Programs Will Only Increase Abortions
I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras for three years. Family planning and birth control were rudimentary at best in that... Read More
Birth Control Pill Founder Carl Djerassi Understood Politics Would Take Greater Role in Family Planning than Science
A CAPS Advisory Board member, chemist and professor widely credited as the father of the birth control pill, or “the Pill,” Carl... Read More
Family Planning Can Help Stabilize Global Numbers
Evidence mounts that world population will not stabilize, as some forecasters thought it would, by 2050. The UN recently released a study... Read More
Brown Belittles Californians Who Sensibly Choose Smaller Families
Jerry Brown and former girlfriend, singer Linda Ronstadt, made headlines while they were dating. Brown is among the “affluent” he chides for... Read More