www.humanlife.net Pro-life resources for HumanLife en-us Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:53:45 PDT Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:53:45 PDT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 info@familyed.info webmaster@familyed.info http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=352 The good news abounded on Friday as the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Planned Parenthood in a case that will determine whether or not South Dakota's informed consent law is constitutional. By a 7-4 vote, the judges reversed a lower court decision and ordered the state to enforce a law that requires doctors to tell women who are seeking an abortion that it "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." Planned Parenthood, desperate to block the law for fear it will hurt business, argued that forcing doctors to tell the truth to women about abortion violates free speech rights. In a revealing statement, the head of Planned Parenthood in South Dakota, Sarah Stoesz, said, "It is not about providing information to women. It is about intruding on the doctor-patient relationship. It is unprecedented and extremely outrageous." No, what's outrageous is that the nation's largest abortion merchant claims to have a woman's best interest at heart yet denies her basic, scientific information about the development of her unborn child. The bottom line is exactly that -- the bottom line. Planned Parenthood's biggest priority is profits, not patients. We applaud the 8th Circuit for upholding this law and recognizing that women deserve to know the truth. Additional Resources AP: Court overturns injunction on S.D. abortion law http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=351 by Wesley J. Smith This is a crucial issue involving the assisted suicide debate. We have already seen in Oregon a woman denied coverage for chemotherapy to extend her life, but told that Medicaid will pay for her assisted suicide. Now, that scenario played out in the UK. The melting down NHS denied a chemotherapy treatment and the man, in despair, killed himself. From the story: A cancer patient killed himself a day after being told he had been refused a wonder drug by his local primary care trust.Terminally-ill Albert Baxter, 75, committed suicide hours after learning he had been turned down for a drug which could have prolonged his life and shrunk his tumour.In desperation, the cancer sufferer offered to pay for the drug, only to be told that he would have to foot the bill for his entire treatment which he could not afford.Keep reading... http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=350 Michael Coren, National Post ...Douglas argued that the mentally and even physically disabled should be sterilized and sent to camps so as not to "infect" the rest of the population. An exhibition of the history of those scientific ideas that gave a grimy intellectual veneer to the Nazi genocide opened recently at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The collection centres on eugenics, the notion that humanity can be improved and perfected by selective breeding and the elimination of individuals and groups considered to be undesirable. Entitled Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, it reveals how it was not thoughtless right-wing thugs as much as writers and scientists, the intellectual elite, who led the movement. The exhibit is important, accurate but, regrettably, long overdue. It also fails to stress just how much the socialist left initiated and supported the eugenics campaign, not only in Germany but in Britain, the U. S. and the rest of Europe. Playwright George Bernard Shaw, English social democrat leader Sydney Webb and, in Canada, Tommy Douglas were just three influential socialists who called, for example, for the mass sterilization of the handicapped. In his Master's thesis The Problems of the Subnormal Family, the now revered Douglas argued that the mentally and even physically disabled should be sterilized and sent to camps so as not to "infect" the rest of the population. Keep reading... http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=349 by Family Research Council Racism, fraud, illegal cover-ups, and manslaughter may sound like an edgy Hollywood script, but at Planned Parenthood, it's all in a day's work. The organization, funded by millions of your hard-earned dollars, has been implicated in the deaths of at least four patients. In this week's issue of The Journal of Immunology, scientists from the University of Michigan blame the fatalities associated with RU-486 on infections that were caused by "off-label use." In other words, some of the clinics that dispensed the drugs ignored the FDA's instructions and advised women to take the pills vaginally--despite the agency's warning that oral use is much safer. At least eight women have died from bacterial infections after taking RU-486. Four of the eight victims had something in common. They had all visited California's Planned Parenthood clinics that didn't follow FDA protocol for dispensing the pills. It took four fatalities in one week before the nation's largest abortion merchant would consider changing its policy. Keep reading... http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=348 by Mary E. Abortion in Washington In a previous post, we estimated the total amount of money given by DSHS to all Planned Parenthood’s in Washington State through Medicaid at $15 million. We want to apologize. We were wrong. Our numbers were off. It turns out that the total, for 2007, was $23 million! ($23,158,857 to be precise) The only good news in there for those who want to see the state get out of our children’s bedrooms is that this was actually down from the previous year, wherein Olympia doled out over $26 million for “health care” services. That $23 million which was spread across the four state affiliates: PP of Western Washington [PPWW], PP of Central Washington [PPCW], PP of Spokane [PPS], and PP of Mt. Baker [PPMB]. The lion’s share of that figure, of course, went to PPWW: $15 million. The break down was as follows: PPWW: $15 million PPCW: $3.3 million PPS: $2.4 million PPMB: $2.1 million About $2 million of the $23 million was directly for abortion. Most of the remainder was for contraception. In typical Planned Parenthood fashion, a few legitimate health care services like STD testing are thrown in there as well. No funds were spent on labor and child delivery. Permalink http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=347 (Source: LifeIssues.org) Reports from the United Kingdom confirm the thirteenth death related to a chemical abortion caused by RU 486. Llywela Jones, mother of deceased Manon Jones, said she was a bubbly daughter and an A-level student. Brian Whitehouse, Avon deputy coroner, says this is the saddest case he has dealt with in 40 years. Manon Jones, an 18-year-old from Caernarfon, Gwenedd, died on June 27, 2005 after severe seizures and cardiac arrest. The post-mortem exam states the result of death was from remaining baby parts left inside. Jones took RU 486 on June 11, 2005. Her mother reports that she was not feeling well in the following days, which Jones shared in emails. On June 15 Jones received an ultrasound which found nothing abnormal. Eight days later Jones checked herself into Southmead Hospital where she received blood transfusions. Her condition deteriorated and four days later she was taken off of life support and pronounced dead. Dr. Hugh White, a physician associated with the inquest, said Jones died of hypovolemia, which is an abnormal decrease in blood volume, and also by shock induced by the baby parts left behind. Next week Life Issues Institute's TV show, Facing Life Head-On, will air a report on the physical and political ramifications of RU 486. Join host, Brad Mattes, as he talks with three guests: Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America; Rebecca Frech, who had a personal experience with RU 486; and Dr. Donna Harrison, a medical researcher specializing in RU 486. For more details on this episode, click here . In 2000, RU 486 was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for distribution in the US. For a list of deaths caused by RU 486 click here . Life Issues Institute is dedicated to changing hearts and minds of millions of people through education. Organizations and individuals around the world depend upon Life Issues Institute to provide the latest information and effective tools to protect innocent human life from womb to tomb. http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=346 ATLANTA, June /Christian Newswire/ -- The case of a pregnant Georgia teen who was pressured into an illegal abortion by her boyfriend's mother is the latest illustration of the lies surrounding abortion, Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life, said today. In the case, a 16-year-old girl was intimidated into having an abortion by her boyfriend's mother, who forged a parental notification form and then arranged and paid for the procedure without the girl's parents' knowledge. "Abortion is founded upon, maintained by, and promoted with lies," said Dr. King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "There are so many lies surrounding the case of this young girl, it's hard to know where to begin. Obviously, there's the falsehood of the boyfriend's mother pretending to be the pregnant girl's mother, the fraud of the boyfriend's mother illegally signing a parental notification form, and the deception of the girl's unknowing parents, who never knew their grandchild existed until it was too late. Most of all, there's the lie that the child who was killed by abortion was not really a child." "I pray for the young girl who was forced to abort her baby. I want her to know that there is healing, just as I have been healed from my own two abortions," added Dr. King. "I pray for the mother of the girl's boyfriend who now sits in jail for her illegal actions. May she come to understand that her actions caused many people a lot of pain. And I also pray for the people who work in abortion clinics who are both victims and proponents of the lies of 'choice.' They need to see that prenatal murder is an affront to justice everywhere. May the Lord have mercy on us all." http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=345 by Mary E. Abortion in Washington Have you wondered how many abortion clinics Planned Parenthood operates in Western Washington? Well, if you go to their website, you would arrive at a total of 23, in other words, every single one of their western Washington clinics. Each of their 23 clinics in Western Washington includes “Abortion Services” in their list of “Services Included”. Take the Issaquah location, for example. PPWW spokesman Brian Cutler, however, told the Issaquah News in February of 2008 that they do not do abortions there, neither dismemberment/surgical nor chemical (RU-486). AIW contacted PPWW’s Bill Fairchild, Director of Marketing. Mr. Fairchlid confirmed that Mr. Cutler was correct, no abortions are done in Issaquah – yet. (It's interesting to note that Brian Cutler also told the Issaquah News that PPWW had people "counter protesting" in support of the Issaquah Planned Parenthood every day that the 40 Days for Life Campaign had people outside praying. His assertion is blatantly false.) Keep reading... http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=344 by Wesley Smith We have been warning for years that this was a possibility in Oregon. Medicaid is rationed, meaning that some treatments are not covered. But assisted suicide is always covered. And now, Barbara Wagner was faced with that very scenario. From the story: Last month, she found out that her lung cancer, which had been in remission for about two years, had come back. After her oncologist prescribed a cancer drug that could slow the cancer growth and extend her life, Wagner was notified that the Oregon Health Plan wouldn't cover the treatment, but that it would cover palliative, or comfort care, including, if she chose, doctor-assisted suicide. No thanks to the bureaucrats in Oregon--but rather, thanks to an "evil" drug company--she will receive the treatment after all: Then, on Monday morning, a representative of the pharmaceutical company called Wagner and told her it would provide the medicine for free. Wagner said she didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she did both. "I am just so thrilled," she said. "I am so relieved and so happy." This isn't the first time this has happened either. A few years ago a patient who needed a double organ transplant was denied the treatment but would have been eligible for state-financed assisted suicide. But not to worry. Just keep repeating the mantra: There are no abuses with Oregon's assisted suicide law. There are no abuses. There are no abuses! Wesley Smith's Blog http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=343 by Students for Life Read the lawsuit filed on 2.12.08 Lawsuit Filed Against Planned Parenthood 2.12.08 (pdf) Read Planned Parenthood’s response on 4.3.08 Planned Parenthood Answer to Lawsuit 4.3.08 (pdf) Students for Life of America has discovered that a lawsuit was filed against Planned Parenthood Metropolitan located in Washington, D.C. on February 12, 2008. Emma Jean Butler, mother of Shantese Butler, is suing Planned Parenthood for $50 million dollars in damages. Butler took her daughter to the D.C. Planned Parenthood on September 7, 2006 to abort a child conceived in rape. During the abortion, Shantese sustained severe abdominal bleeding, severe vaginal injury, severe injury to the cervix, significant uterine perforation, and a small bowel tear. In addition, parts of the child were found inside Shantese’s abdomen on September 8, 2006. Because of these injuries, Shantese will be infertile for the rest of her life. Keep reading... See also Michelle Malkin http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=342 "A friend of mine, the Nazi hunter Dr. Bill Franzblau, helped bust Sewering years ago--leading to the bad doctor's having to quit as head of the World Medical Association. Indicating his mindset, Sewerling claimed at the time that it was all a Jewish conspiracy!" By Alex Schadenberg Dr. Hans-Joachim Sewering, a 92-year-old german physician has been honored for performing unequalled service in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession, and to the nation's health system by the German Federation of Internal Medicine. (see Calgary Herald article) The Anti-Defamation League in the U.S. claims that Sewering sent up to 900 children to their death at a euthanasia centre. Sewering has admitted being a member of the SS, but he has denied being responsible for euthanasia deaths. These cases are very important because they remind us that people are capable of doing horrific acts to other human beings. Society likes to believe that these horrific acts only happened because of the Nazi regime that controlled Germany, but the reality is that Hitler wasn't ordering these deaths, physicians were ordering these deaths. Hitler only gave them permission. Whether Sewering is partly responsible for 900 deaths or not, it is clear that in the long-term, the primary victims of euthanasia will be people with disabilities and other vulnerable persons who will either be subtly coerced into accepting death or killed out of indifference. People who lack equality, also will lack the necessary ability to effectively resist the culture of death. More on the Dr. "Infanticide" Sewerling Disgrace by Wesley Smith I am glad Alex decided to write on the award given to Dr. Hans-Joachim Sewering--a Holocaust doctor!--by a German medical association. A friend of mine, the Nazi hunter Dr. Bill Franzblau, helped bust Sewering years ago--leading to the bad doctor's having to quit as head of the World Medical Association. Indicating his mindset, Sewerling claimed at the time that it was all a Jewish conspiracy! Now, he gets an award. But should we be surprised? Infanticide is positively in these days. Proponents get to teach at Princeton and pro infanticide pieces have run in the NEJM, the NYT, and the Hastings Center Report--as documented here at SHS. The way things are going, the doctors hanged for such practices after Nuremberg will be issued an apology by the oh-so-compassionate big brained folk pushing the New Eugenics Agenda! Wesley Smith's blog http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=341 by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor May 21, 2008 Olympia, WA (LifeNews.com) -- A group of bipartisan lawmakers in the Washington state legislature have issued a statement saying they oppose the bid to legalize assisted suicide. They're urging state residents not to sign petitions to get I-1000 on the November ballot to try to make the state second after Oregon to legalize the practice. Sen. Margarita Prentice, a Democrat from Renton, said in a statement from Coalition Against Assisted Suicide, that the measure targets vulnerable citizens. “It has virtually no protection for low-income and vulnerable people from being pressured into prematurely ending their life,” she said. Keep reading... http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=340 Manufacturing fellow human beings and now manufacturing chimeras ushers in the Brave New World--Dan by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Members of the British Parliament, on a lopsided vote, approved allowing scientists to make hybrids combining animal and human DNA in human cloning attempts. The House of Commons rejected an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that would have prevented it. MPs voted 336 to 176 against the amendment from Tory former minister Edward Leigh. He said the use of hybrid clones cross an "entirely new ethical boundary," and turn the UK into a scientific "rogue state." "In many ways we are like children playing with landmines without any concept of the dangers of the technology that we are handling," he said, according to a Press Association report. Members of parliament also voted 286 to 223 to reject a second amendment that would have prohibited so-called "true hybrids" using the sex cells of a human and an animal. Any human embryos created with human and animal DNA would be killed 14 days after their creation. Scientists say they want to engage in human cloning to obtain more embryonic stem cells for research even though they've never helped patients with diseases. KEEP READING... See also our resources on Cloning & Embryonic stem cell research and links to scientifically accurate resources ↑ Grab this Headline Animator http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=339 This is a sad story from Abortion in Washington. When will the world admit that abortion kills babies, hurts women, and wounds abortionists? - Dan by Mary E. Here's one for the "Quack" file. The Problems With Dr. Juice: Botched abortions, extortion, steroid trafficking, and a pool table in the exam room were just the beginning. The pro-abortion Seattle Weekly published an article this week about former abortionist Dr. Howard Levine who was sentenced to prison for almost two years this past February. "Levine had pleaded guilty to a single count of illegal steroid trafficking, one of thousands of mostly Internet-based steroid sales he made to customers across the United States since at least 2004, prosecutors say, including some to undercover bodybuilders from the Drug Enforcement Agency." Before he was involved in illegal steroid trafficking, Dr. Levine was an abortionist at Women's Health Care Center in Seattle in the early '80s. He only completed study at New York Medical College in Valhalla and was first licensed in 1979 so it would appear that an abortion practice was one of his first stops upon gaining his license. KEEP READING... http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=338 by Wesley J. Smith We keep hearing that the Oregon law is working without a flaw. The media touts that party line in almost every story about the issue. Of course to do that, contrary information has to be ignored. For example, the Michael Freeland case (reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry) in which a man became psychotic after being prescribed a lethal brew--even though his cancer had probably not reached the terminal stage--but was allowed by his own psychiatrist to keep the prescription "safely at home." Such as the recent study demonstrating that people without serious symptoms of their disease are given lethal prescriptions by doctors anyway. And here's another media-ignored study, published in the Michigan Law Review (pdf) by two of the most notable physician experts on this issue in the country, palliative care expert Kathleen M. Foley and psychiatrist Herbert Hendin. Keep reading HERE http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=337 as if the Right to Refuse Wanted Life-Sustaining Treatment Already Exists by Wesley J. Smith An intrepid reader sent me this on-line syllabus from a bioethics course at the University of Washington Medical School. I checked on the link protocol and the author Nancy Jecker, Ph.D presumes that the right to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment already exists. From the syllabus: While you will hear colleagues referring to particular cases or interventions as "futile", the technical meaning and moral weight of this term is not always appreciated. As you will make clinical decisions using futility as a criterion, it is important to be clear about the meaning of the concept. Futilitarians often deny that Futile Care Theory is about money. They deny it is about ideology that presumes some lives not to be worth living. As the following quote shows, it is about both: The goal of medicine is to help the sick. You have no obligation to offer treatments that do not benefit your patients. Futile interventions are ill advised because they often increase a patient's pain and discomfort in the final days and weeks of life, and because they can expend finite medical resources. Although the ethical requirement to respect patient autonomy entitles a patient to choose from among medically acceptable treatment options (or to reject all options), it does not entitle patients to receive whatever treatments they ask for. Instead, the obligations of physicians are limited to offering treatments that are consistent with professional standards of care. Realize that futilitarians are changing the fundamental purpose of medicine to suit their beliefs. One such fundamental purpose is to extend life if that is what the patient wants. Futile Care Theory arrogantly presumes the right to tell a patient and his or her family that their life isn't worth extending--which is to say, that it isn't the treatment being judged "futile," but the patient. And, it apparently presumes the right to censor information a patient or family need to make proper informed consent. The futilitarians are acting as if they have already won this bioethical controversy. But their agenda is running into strong head winds. As failed attempts to impose medical futility in Texas--where there is a law explicitly permitting it--demonstrate, we the people are not going to just roll over and let ethics committees meeting behind closed doors decide when the time has come for their baby, grandma, or a spouse to die. The more public we make this fight, the better chance we have to stop this ad hoc health care rationing/medical discrimination in its tracks. After all, in this fight "choice" is on our side. Wesley J. Smith's blog http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=336 Is terminal sedation becoming an acceptable form of euthanasia? Demonstrating the subversive nature of the euthanasia/assisted suicide movement on proper medical care, certain doctors are sedating patients into a permanent coma so they die by dehydration over a period of days or weeks. This is the angle being taken in new proposals in CA and Vermont, demonstrating that what we are really dealing with here is a form of euthanasia. From Texas Right to Life alert: What is Terminal Sedation? Terminal sedation (also known as deep sedation) is the medical practice of administering sufficient palliative drugs to render a patient unconscious. This type of sedation is usually used only when lesser pain management is ineffective; the purpose is to relieve intense physical pain that usually occurs in advanced illnesses. According to Nancy Guilfoy Valko, RN (a former hospice nurse), an essential part of terminal sedation is also the withdrawal of all treatment—including food and water—so that death occurs as soon as possible. Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition claims that terminal sedation can be used as a legitimate form of palliative care but is often abused as a slow form of euthanasia. If nutrition and hydration are removed, then this measure is clearly being used as a type of euthanasia. However, while patients suffering great pain can be ethically sedated to an unconscious state, nutrition and hydration should be continued. Then, according to Schadenberg, after a short period, the patients should be “relaxed from their time of sedation and can be effectively treated for pain and symptom management without re-sedating them.” Study from The Netherlands A new study in The Netherlands has found an increase in terminal sedation and a decrease in euthanasia. The study found that, of those who died, 1,800 people (7.1 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2005) were drugged into continuous terminal sedation shortly before dying. Just four years before, only 5.6 percent of people who died received terminal sedation. During that same time, the use of euthanasia fell from 2.6 percent to 1.7 percent (a decrease in 1,200 cases). Schadenberg suspects that the medical community reports instances of terminal sedation as a medical practice—which does not carry a moral stigma—rather than an act of euthanasia. An Acceptable Form of Euthanasia? Some euthanasia supporters see terminal sedation as inhumane compared to a quicker death by a lethal overdose. However, some view terminal sedation as a way of circumventing prohibitions on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, which remain illegal in most states due to low voter support. According to Valko, those who work in hospice or with dying patients know that pain can virtually always be controlled. She pointed out that, “In Oregon, voters were sold their assisted suicide law by claims that terminally ill people needed lethal overdoses to relieve unbearable pain—yet even the limited data on assisted suicide victims shows that the main reasons given by the victims were fear of future suffering, losing independence, and/or being a ‘burden’ on family members.” When used as euthanasia, terminal sedation is an abuse against some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Though gentler than an abrupt removal of all medical treatment, terminal sedation as a form of slow-killing is indeed one method of euthanasia and devalues the infirm and disabled. Additionally, families of the ailing patient are often not even informed that the reason for the terminal sedation was to cause death, and rarely was their permission sought to sedate the patient into unconsciousness. http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=335 CEMETERY of CHOICE Legal, illegal, professional, amateur, and self-induced. Abortion can be deadly, no matter what the setting or who is doing the deed. RealChoice Blog - (The side of "choice" the abortion lobby doesn't want you to see) has an online Cemetery of Choice. The information comes from court documents, medical journal articles, autopsy reports, news stories, and online sources. The dates range from the 19th century to the 21st century. The abortionists were mostly doctors, though a few were lay abortionists, some were posing as physicians, and a few were the woman herself. The one thing all these storis share is this: Each woman died at the hands of somebody who bought into the idea that women and their unborn children are mortal enemies, and that abortion is a solution to women's problems. Women deserve better. To read each woman's story, click on her name. Cemetery of Choice RealChoice Blog - The side of "choice" the abortion lobby doesn't want you to see http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=334 Abortion in Washington blog has a listing of the salaries for some of the top employees of Washington's largest chain of abortion centers -- Planned Parentood -- and the Cedar River Clinic. Remember your tax dollars go to pay the salaries of these people, which makes them essentially sub-contractors for the state. Wow. Look at the numbers! We've got a suggested recruitment tagline for the local abortion industry: "It may be killing, but it's one heck of a living!" See figures HERE... FYI:2008 LANDMARKS 35th anniversary of legalized abortion imposed upon our nation US has recorded over 50 million legal abortions Planned Parenthood has surpassed $1 BILLION in receipts. Planned Parenthood received $330 MILLION of tax payer funding last year. Planned Parenthood performed over 280,000 abortions just last year (2007) http://www.humanlife.net/view_onenews.htm?nid=333 Front Royal, VA, —Steven Mosher, the president of the Population Research Institute and recognized demographic expert, has written a devastating indictment of those who would reduce human numbers. In Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits, just published by Transaction Press, Mosher details how the population control movement has carried out a virtual war on the people of the world, harming hundreds of millions of women, children and families in the process. Mosher, an eyewitness to the brutality of China's one-child policy, draws from personal experience and a lifelong passion for demographics to craft a compelling argument against population control. From its origins in racial hysteria and demographic ignorance to its state-sanctioned and funded rise to the mainstream, Mosher describes the population control movement as it really is: as the world's Number One violator of human rights. "Human rights are nonnegotiable, or they are not rights at all," Mosher says. "Abuses of basic rights, such as the right to bear children, cannot be expunged by reference to any calculus of costs versus benefits, any more than comparable violations of other basic human rights can be explained away, excused, or justified by reference to a supposedly larger social good." The book explains exactly how the population control movement continues to violate these basic rights, in the pursuit for a highly questionable "good”— fewer children. In the words of Allan Carlson of the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, Population Control is "crisp and compelling; the message both disturbing and illuminating; the concluding call for a pro-natalist future hopeful." In it, Mosher is able to "ably express" the motives of population controllers, and their "open acts of violence against women and children." The book is available at the PRI bookstore here.