Plan a family, save the world

Seattle Times by Neal Peirce | Oct. 7, 2008 (Opinion)

So what will our next president do? Will he boost U.S. global family-planning funding to the $1 billion a year that advocates propose, working with other nations to make family planning and modern conception services globally available?

The issue's not just moral: In an environmentally imperiled world, it's strategic and critical.

John McCain's anti-abortion, anti-birth-control-assistance record is unequivocal. So is Barack Obama's ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics, Sci/Tech, Living
Topics: Family, Global Warming, Food, Poverty, Pollution, Obama Administration, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, Climate Change, Water
Member Tags: Population Explosion, family planning, contraception
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 7, 2008

Peirce brings one of the world's biggest problems into the political discussion of presidential platforms. The topic is important, the article includes some history and data on the problem without getting too dry.

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