@rose_myrtle @TMakarios
That website was pivotal in undermining #populationGrowth concerns in the 2010s and as a result set back movements to empower women, and to secure #familyPlanning and other services. With the help of an elevated #demographer at the #BBC, the world saw a marked increase in #fertility as a result, The problem of #unwantedBirths is a huge and they basically helped fuel it.

It has helped to plunge more people into various forms of poverty, modern slavery, precarity etc.

"Poor policies around paid family leave and options for child care create challenges for many in the United States, and that hasn’t changed post-Dobbs, said Beth Jarosz, a demographer and program director with the nonprofit Population Reference Bureau who focuses on child well-being."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/health/texas-abortion-law-births/index.html

#KidsData #FamilyPlanning #Abortion #Birth #Births #BirthRates #PaidFamilyLeave #ChildTaxCredit

A reminder: you have one week to register for the next #FemQuantSeminar by Leontine Alkema on the topic of New Measures for #FamilyPlanning and Exposure to Risk of #Pregnancy.

Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-measures-for-family-planning-and-exposure-to-risk-of-pregnancy-tickets-539549145017

A reminder: you have one week to register for the next #FemQuantSeminar by @LeontineAlkema
on the topic of New Measures for #FamilyPlanning and Exposure to Risk of #Pregnancy.

Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-measures-for-family-planning-and-exposure-to-risk-of-pregnancy-tickets-539549145017

Texas 'health care' law
stinks of shameful death panels,
sans panels. Just death.

#Haiku #Senryu #Poem
#HealthCare #Abortion #AbortionIsHealthCare #ProChoice #FamilyPlanning #TrustWomen #Patriarchy

BTW that's 80 million unwanted births per annum, last we checked.

#familyPlanning

@nlowell @indieauthornews

Nathan, you wrote "Every minute you spend managing promotional efforts is a minute you don't have to write and publish the next book."

This is how I end up being a strong advocate of Universal Basic Income (UBI). It saddens me that so many see it as a mere safety net, though it is that. That unfortunately leads to a tired and stingy discussion of people as dead--weights looking for a handout.

But I come at this from the other side: why society should want to PAY such a thing. It's taken as a given people want to receive it.

Almost every writer I know must work a day job. Even the good ones spend time on promotional tours. And they die having written fewer books. Same fot musicians, artists, etc. So the world is poorer for lack of their unique creativity.

Meanwhile, and importantly, if they work a day job or travel a lot, those make-work activities we require so they may be fed almost surely consume unnecessary resources that fight sustainability. See my essay Corny Economics (http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2012/05/corny-economics.html) for a more entertaining pitch on that.

People often take jobs that are not just grungy and soul-deadening but sociopathic if they have to eat. Many jobs that are worst for society, that require breaches of ethics, morality or even law are sustained by nice people feeling they have no choice but to do them and get paid so family can eat. UBI would fight the need for that.

In an increasingly automated world, we as society should want people freed to do the things that bring them joy, which are probably things that bring us joy. Imagine the productivity that would unlock.

Some might just stay home and take care of friends and family. Society is not poorer for that.

But even if many chose to be "couch potatoes" because they didn't have anything to offer family and society, society can better sustain the cost of a couch and a gaming system for them than it can sustain the cost of their daily commute to a pointless job that consumes resources to make things no one really needs.

Everything points to UBI as the way forward for society, and NOT because of what individuals need as handouts but what society could get if it treated people as potential sources of beauty instead of expendable rags to be ground under foot if they don't do something superhuman to prove they have value at all.

We have a society based on the worst cynicism about people but we could do better.

It's true, we have too many people. But that is true under any system. Minimizing per person resources by not making people do things neither they nor society needs can help some in the short term. It can also help to make it clear that forced pregnancy is never acceptable. But long run we have to have a societal dialog about family planning and curbing population. There's just no way out of that.

#UBI #economics #society #business
#art #music #writing #WritingCommunity
#food #income #SafetyNets #politics
#climate #environment #sustainability
#inequality #ForcedPregnancy #population #FamilyPlanning

This #GivingTuesday, please consider helping their phenomenal team multiply their impact in 2023: https://convergeaccess.org/donate/

You can also follow their work at https://convergeaccess.org/.
#contracetiveaccess #familyplanning #TitleX #Medicaid #reproductivehealth #healthpolicy 10/10

This #GivingTuesday, please consider helping their phenomenal team multiply their impact in 2023: https://convergeaccess.org/donate/

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#contracetiveaccess #familyplanning #TitleX #Medicaid #reproductivehealth #healthpolicy 10/10

This #GivingTuesday, please consider helping their phenomenal team multiply their impact in 2023: https://convergeaccess.org/donate/

You can also follow their work at https://convergeaccess.org/.
#contracetiveaccess #familyplanning #TitleX #Medicaid #reproductivehealth #healthpolicy

Thrilled to be working on these stories this week for #Rutgers to coincide with the international conference on #familyplanning in Thailand

Arming young people with information to make relationships strong and healthy

https://rutgers.international/stories/arming-young-people-with-information-to-make-relationships-strong-and-healthy

#SRHR #Netherlands #CSE #icfp2022 #youth #storyteller

Going into the field as strangers but leaving as “sisters” – the power of young people in abortion research in Kenya

https://rutgers.international/stories/going-into-the-field-as-strangers-but-leaving-as-sisters-the-power-of-young-people-in-abortion-research-in-kenya/

#icfp2022 #kenya #abortion #postabortion #SRHR #familyplanning #Rutgers

@sim
Another great reason for smaller families and less overcrowding is, indeed yes fewer wars (or famine, disease, pestilence).

Malthus had three scenarios, two were awful, but the last one was that we manage to live in #balance with our #environment.

We pick three :)

#familyPlanning #fff #fridaysForFuture

They lied about #JulianAssange for several years, #innuendo that he was a #rapist.

Afghanistan warcrimes and pillaging that had almost f/a to do with 911. 20 years.

Women have adequate access to #familyPlanning and #healthcare. We support the rights #womenAndGirls here and abroad. 50 years.

Western leaders can maintain lies for a really, really, really long time.

#usa #virtueSignalling #autocracy #exportingRacism #islamophobia #russophobia #sinophobia #nato #australia #newZealand #uk #canada

More from VP Kamala Harris on the #SCOTUS opinion on #RoeVsWade :
“The Supreme Court decision calls into question other rights that we thought were settled.”
https://twitter.com/kamalaharris/status/1540757298557005824?s=21&t=V6SapjH2NOCVtHrJk-_Q4Q #RoeVWade #abortion #ConstitutionalRight #rights #freedom #FamilyPlanning

Who needs to push wild narratives of a UN #depopulation agenda when we have #NATO egging on #Ukraine to do something stupid in their name?

Sort of makes UN #sustainabilityGoals like access to #contraception, family planning and quality #education for all seem like access to contraception, #familyPlanning and quality #educationForAll.

Jeebus!

You mean its not about drinking baby elephant blood and harvesting genetic stemcell men to keep #theSimpsons episode generator going?

#brinkmanship #UN

@samuraikid@freeatlantis.com
The only thing that can save us now (populationGrowth is still out of this world) is if we stop airTravel, have a reckoning with megaCities (they've a terrible total ecological footprint), started #biodynamic farming that doesn't rely on #fossilFuels for #fertiliser and (almost fully) replaced animal #meat with local, printed organic meat from stem cells.

The basics like #contraception, #familyPlanning and giving educaton to both sexes has reached a limit – #HansRosling was wrong.

@Eris
Hi Mystic,

Unfortunately we are unable to see your toots.

We need to work together to reverse populationGrowth for about ten generations of humans. The #biomass studies highlight how much we are running roughshot over the land, and sea for that matter, together with #livestock.

When you take a look you'll find it sobering. Very.

Continued #awareness, easy access #contraceptives and #familyPlanning and giving #women a chance to pursue their dreams are all ways we can help

@mystik

இரண்டு குழந்தைகளுக்கு மேல் பெற்றால் அரசு வேலை கிடையாது! உ.பி. மாநில பாஜக அரசு புதிய சட்ட வரைவு வெளியீடு https://patrikai.com/no-govt-job-no-subsidies-for-those-with-more-than-two-kids-says-up-govts-draft-population-control-law/ via @patrikaidotcom@twitter.com

#UttarPradesh #UP #FamilyPlanning #employment @myogiadityanath@twitter.com

3 குழந்தைகள் பெற்றுக்கொள்ள சீன அரசு அனுமதி

https://www.patrikai.com/china-relaxes-family-planning-allows-coupe-to-have-3-children/

#China #3ChildPolicy #FamilyPlanning