An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Population debate
 
  30 September 2010

Commentary: China’s one-child policy - success or failure?

Thirty years after the introduction of China’s one-child policy, the government is being urged to rethink its population controls, BBC News Online reports.

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14 September 2010

USA: ‘People and the Planet’

The September 2010 issue of the Catholics for Choice magazine Conscience is dedicated to exploring the questions raised by population growth. 

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  25 March 2010

Commentary: Family planning should mean choice, not control

Jennie Bristow, editor of Abortion Review, reports on the ‘morally uncomfortable’ questions raised by a recent conference examining the alleged connection between population dynamics, reproductive health and rights, and climate change.

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15 February 2010

Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Since 200 AD, scaremongers have been describing human beings as ‘burdensome to the world’. They were wrong then, and they’re still wrong today. Commentary by Brendan O’Neill. 

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  14 February 2010

Climate change - Calling planet birth

On 13 February, the UK Guardian published a lengthy article by Oliver Burkeman arguing that ‘family size has become the great unmentionable of the campaign for more environmentally friendly lifestyles’. 

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  21 December 2009

‘After the hype, Copenhagen provides cold reminder of political reality’

Leo Bryant, Advocacy Manager for Marie Stopes International, blogs about his experience of discussing family planning at the Copenhagen climate change conference. 

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  27 November 2009

MSI leads discussion on using family planning to combat climate change

Press release from Marie Stopes International, 27 November 2009. 

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