by ALFI | Feb 15, 2018 | Issues, Total Fertility Control
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Thailand has tried cash bonuses and tax incentives to boost the country’s birth rate, but on Valentine’s Day today (Feb 14), it adopted a new approach – handing out vitamin pills. Like several other Asian countries, Thailand...
by ALFI | Jan 17, 2018 | Issues, Total Fertility Control
Some half a century after its launch, cracks are beginning to appear in the image of the contraceptive pill. But why are more and more women turning away from it? Lottie Winter finds out in this piece first published in Vogue’s November 2017 issue. The pill....
by ALFI | Jan 15, 2018 | Issues, Total Fertility Control
There is a surprising new trend among the female millennial population. Contrary to the steadfast beliefs of their mothers and grandmothers, many millennial women are saying, “Enough is enough!” Depending upon whom you ask, millennials are identified as those born...
by ALFI | Dec 28, 2017 | Issues, Total Fertility Control
Filipino immigrant families join a pro-life march in the U.S. in 2016. WINNIE VENERACION MANILA – Following a pro-life coalition’s call to the Food and Drug Authority to reverse the “hasty and impulsive” declaration of some 51 contraceptives as non-abortifacient, a...
by ALFI | Dec 28, 2017 | Issues, Total Fertility Control
TOKYO—The number of births in Japan this year has fallen to its lowest since records began more than a century ago with about 941,000 new babies, the health ministry said on Friday, proof if any were needed that it faces an aging and shrinking population. The number...
by ALFI | Dec 21, 2017 | Issues, Total Fertility Control
As the bodies pile up, President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” continues to attract international attention and condemnation. With grand pronouncements, he has made clear his intention to rid the streets of illegal narcotics. But the President’s incendiary...
