Tag: demographic winter

Exporting the "Pro-Life" Movement to Russia

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Last month the Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement that supported Moscow’s squashing of the gay pride parade there.  But it seems limiting the rights of gays isn’t the only issue on which the church has found a chance to work with the state.  The New York Times reports that the Russian government and the ROC are working together to keep the native Russian population from being overrun by immigrants by fostering a US-like “pro-life” movement. Continue Reading →

Exporting the “Pro-Life” Movement to Russia

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Last month the Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement that supported Moscow’s squashing of the gay pride parade there.  But it seems limiting the rights of gays isn’t the only issue on which the church has found a chance to work with the state.  The New York Times reports that the Russian government and the ROC are working together to keep the native Russian population from being overrun by immigrants by fostering a US-like “pro-life” movement. Continue Reading →

Using "Demographic Winter" To Thwart Global Access to Family Planning

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What was once a rallying cry by U.S. evangelical organizations to limit access to birth control here and abroad (see former Revealer managing editor Kathryn Joyce’s 2008 article at The Nation, “Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies”) is now a Vatican topic for discussion at a UN panel. Continue Reading →

Using “Demographic Winter” To Thwart Global Access to Family Planning

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What was once a rallying cry by U.S. evangelical organizations to limit access to birth control here and abroad (see former Revealer managing editor Kathryn Joyce’s 2008 article at The Nation, “Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies”) is now a Vatican topic for discussion at a UN panel. Continue Reading →

Using “Demographic Winter” To Thwart Global Access to Family Planning

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What was once a rallying cry by U.S. evangelical organizations to limit access to birth control here and abroad (see former Revealer managing editor Kathryn Joyce’s 2008 article at The Nation, “Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies”) is now a Vatican topic for discussion at a UN panel. Continue Reading →

More Babies

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In a recent article for AlterNet Bill Berkowitz describes the fear of European population decline — so-called “birth dearth” or, as used to evoke the horrors of nuclear winter, “demographic winter” — “as a catchphrase for turning the discussion [about declining birth rates and rising population age in the West] into another battle in the culture war. For many on the Right, demographic winter describes a future of economic catastrophes, the decline of Western Civilization, and the destruction of the “natural” family.” Continue Reading →