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Institute One Child Policy for a "Sustainable" Australia : Population Control Group
A population control pressure group has issued a call for the Australian government to institute a one-child policy to ensure the continent's environmental and economic "sustainability." Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) said this week that Australia's 22 million people must be reduced to 7 million and that restricting each couple to one baby, as China does, is "one way of assisting to reduce the population" and avoiding "environmental suicide."
Speaking on the eve of Earth Day, the group's national president, Sandra Kanck, a former Democrat politician, said a one-child policy is "something we need to throw into the mix."
Population increase, she said, means, "more cars on the road, more coal-fired electricity generated. It entails more houses and other consumer products. It uses more cement, energy and water which all results in more greenhouse gas emissions."
"Increasing the population is basically suicide, it's environmental suicide, it's utterly irresponsible," Kanck said. "We are eating away at the planet, we are eating into all the resources, be it petrol, be it superphosphate, be it clear air."
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Contraceptive Pill Makes Exercise Ineffectual: Study
A new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Physiological Society in New Orleans found that women who use the contraceptive pill gain far less lean muscle mass from weight training compared to those who don't take oral contraceptives.
The study, led by Chang-Woock Lee and Steven Riechman from the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University in College Station, and Mark Newman of the Human Energy Research Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, found that oral contraceptive use limits muscle gain from strength training in women under 35.
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Government-Paid Abortions? Latina Advocacy Group says Yes
The National Latina Institute is lobbying for government-funded abortions for low income women. This week, it unleashed an army of Latina women in Capitol Hill who met one-on-one with congressional leaders to make their point. A 1977 federal rule, known as the Hyde amendment, precludes the use of federal funding for abortions unless the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or if the woman's life is in danger. The burden of proof of the first two would be on the woman, which cranks up one level an already traumatizing experience.
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Obama Focus On Population 'Reduction', Urges Women's Power
The new U.S. ambassador for global women's issues pledged Thursday the Obama administration's "deep commitment" to a U.N. blueprint aimed at slowing the world's population explosion and empowering women. At the heart of the action plan adopted at a U.N. population conference in Cairo 15 years ago is a demand for women's equality through education, economic development, access to modern birth control and the right to choose if and when to become pregnant. The U.S. ambassador, Melanne Verveer, said Obama's decision to contribute $50 million to the U.N. Population Fund for family planning, an increase of more than 100 percent over the last U.S. contribution, in 2001, "will send an unambiguous signal to the world that the U.S. supports the Cairo Platform for Action." Hillary, now secretary of state, told a conference of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in Houston last month "that reproductive rights and the umbrella issue of women's rights and empowerment is going to be a key to the foreign policy of this administration." She stressed the link between women's rights and democracy.
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Pro-Life Doctors Face 'Consequences'
On April 8, I attended an event at the National Press Club where about 40 doctors, medical students, nurses and lab techs faced the TV cameras. They gathered to advocate for the "conscience" protections for health professionals that the Obama administration intends to dismantle. Eliminating these protections will drive pro-life doctors out of the profession, they said.
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Senate Republicans Put Brakes On Sebelius Nomination
Republicans in the Senate have temporarily blocked Governor Kathleen Sebelius' nomination as Health and Human Services secretary from moving forward. The Kansas governor had been approved by the Senate Finance Committee last Tuesday, and some expected her to be confirmed this week. But when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called for a full Senate vote, his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell, objected. McConnell cited the reservations of members of the Senate Finance Committee as his motivation for halting Sebelius' nomination, according to the Associated Press. Some Republicans have previously objected to Sebelius' support for abortions and for her failure to properly report campaign contributions that she received from a doctor who performs abortions. Reid will need 60 votes to get the nomination moving again, something the Democrats say shouldn't be a problem. But the process will likely take another week.
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