Are UNICEF’s Claims of Helping Children Misleading? Take Action.

Mar 3, 2023 | fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

Dear UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russel, Recent fundraising efforts by UNICEF are inaccurate. The organization is not pegging family planning policies and practices to the standards of the Children’s Rights Convention. That means children are...

Nobody Would Talk About Underpopulation if We Had to Actually Invest in Kids. We Do Have to Invest. Target the Wealthy to Pay.

Mar 2, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

Countless media stories today are flooding our brains with stories of an underpopulation crisis, falling fertility rates, and women liberated from being mothers-in-waiting. What if we had to ensure every child born a fair start in life, with all the things we would...

Effective Altruism? It Was Never Their Money to Give Away.

Mar 2, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

While a lot has been said about the failures of effective altruism as an ethic, few see a fundamental flaw in its design: The assumption that the wealth referred to in the concept was fully owned by the wealthy donors – like Peter Singer – who kindly would...

What’s the #Famscam? Businesses and the Nonprofits They Support Pretended to Reduce Consumption, While Quietly Adding More Consumers

Mar 1, 2023 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

How do you make money by destroying the environment, while appearing to do good? You pretend to reduce things like climate emissions by promoting green energy or vegan food products, for example, while quietly finding ways to simply increase the number of people who...

THE WORDS OF ESTHER AFOLARANMI AND HER VISION: THE FAIR START MOVEMENT IN AFRICA

Feb 27, 2023 | fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

By Esther Afolaranmi. Esther is a Law Graduate from Bowen University, and will be working with the Animal Activist Legal Defense Project at the University of Denver this year. Esther has career interests in Corporate/ commercial law practice, real estate management,...

The Fake Underpopulation Crisis: Three Different Types of Men Pushing Women to Have Kids, and How to Stop Them

Feb 24, 2023 | fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

When you’ve done something wrong it’s easier to distract than make amends. And when it comes to family and population policy, a lot of influential people did a lot of wrong. They chose totally unsustainable growth, and inequitable family policies, that...

Ask United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to Tell the #WholeTruth About the Genesis of Today’s Crises

Feb 23, 2023 | fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

Dear Secretary General, The climate and inequity crises the world faces today are worsening. They flow, fundamentally, from family planning policies centered around the Cairo Consensus that are anthropocentric, and do not ensure birth equity for children. These are...

Urge Corey Booker to tell the #WholeTruth: Your Statements About Democracy and Equity Are Premised on a Mistake

Feb 22, 2023 | fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

  Dear Senator Booker, We are excited for your new “baby bonds” legislation, and hope it succeeds.  But the truth is the larger forms of family policy you and all of us simply accept ensure  more and more animals are subjected to suffering and...

An Open Letter to ReproAction and the Center for Reproductive Rights: Abortion Rights Can Override Governmental Authority

Feb 22, 2023 | fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

Dear Erin and Nancy, We are excited that you are focusing on Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, and his authority to impact contraception access around the nation. There is an argument that he has no such authority, an argument that transcends reliance on written constitutions...