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The Politics of Palliative Care
By Judie Brown Senator Tammy Baldwin (WI) has taken it upon herself to interfere in the care of those who are approaching life’s end. Her legislative proposal (S 2243) was introduced in July. Known as the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, it is designed to fund an increase in the facilities and staff of medical schools. The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative...
Population Research – William Styring, III
Health Care 2020: The Coming Collapse of Employer-Provided Health CareWilliam Styring, IIISenior FellowHudson Institute A lot of people are kind of vaguely aware that we’re going to have a demographic problem down the road with an aging of the baby boomers, but not a...
How Prepared Are You to Kill for What You Believe?
Antonia Senior’s recent opinion piece in the Times entitled “Yes, abortion is killing. But it’s the lesser evil” has been analyzed by pro-life writers Dave Andrusko and Albert Mohler, who are both disturbed by her statement “If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too.”
Population Research – Peter T. Kilborn
Definition of Abortion Is Found to Vary AbroadPeter T. KilbornThe New York Times Officially, Bangladesh prohibits abortion except to save a mother’s life. But the government of Bangladesh, an emphatic proponent of birth control, and the nongovernment Family...
Population Research – Toni Horst, Ph.D.
Global GreyingToni Horst, Ph.D.Specialist in regional economics and demographics One implication of the growing elderly share of the population is that fewer workers will be supporting retirees in the future. At present, working taxpayers outnumber retirees in the...
Population Research – Frank Furedi
Six Billion People? Three Cheers!Frank FurediAuthor of Population and Development: A Critical Introduction The traditional argument of the population lobby, for example, was that controlling numbers was essential to economic development. For some time now,...
Population Research – Fred Pearce
Counting DownFred PearceNew Scientist Magazine Only 12 years have passed since we hit the 5-billion mark, so the event has been greeted with portentous warnings of a “population time bomb” and a “demographic disaster”. But delve behind the...