Category: Birth Control

Debate on the Business of the Pill Continues

Commentary I’m prone to say because of the work I do in bioethics, that “the pill allowed us to have sex, without having babies, and now reproductive technologies allow us to have babies without having sex.”  I use Elton John and his partner David Furnish as my illustration. Elton and David came to California to…


In Major Reversal, Beijing Unveils Series of Policies Promoting Childbearing

On July 20, the State Council of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially issued a document which not only allows three children for each family but also introduces a number of policies to encourage childbirth, indicating the regime’s eagerness to get Chinese people to have more children. Other than giving permission for parents to have…


Suddenly, ‘The Population Bomb’ Is a Population Bust

Commentary Paul Ehrlich wrote one of the most famous and bestselling books of the 20th century. It was called “The Population Bomb.” It was 300 pages of doom and gloom. The planet was being destroyed because human beings were reproducing like Norwegian field mice. It was a Darwinian nightmare leading the species inexorably back to…