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Experts: Birth control for poor women could combat climate change
Barry Artiste Op/Ed
W0W ! 200 million women from developing countries want contraception, I wonder how these women will get it? Especially if Hubby finds out and buries his wife up to her neck, while his hysterical family fire boulders at her head, crushing it to a pulp!
Guess that would be a bitter and fatal pill to swallow for the woman, considering the majority of some of these developing and Groovy countries, especially when the demand for many sons far outweighs a womans right to choose to live or die by the husband, cleric, or the village!
What the F*ck are these people thinking in England?
LONDON - Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.
More than 200 million women worldwide want contraceptives, but don't have access to them, according to an editorial published in the British medical journal, Lancet. That results in 76 million unintended pregnancies every year.
If those women had access to free condoms or other birth control methods, that could slow rates of population growth, possibly easing the pressure on the environment, the editors say.
"There is now an emerging debate and interest about the links between population dynamics, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and climate change," the commentary says.
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at 09:25 on September 19th, 2009
Thanks IA
Some people are so friggin clueless to the world around them or am I the only one in the entire F*CKING World who see the consequences of these actions?
at 09:33 on September 19th, 2009
Mass production is the only way to spread the truth®. Who will/can educate the Brits.
Oh..! Are there any plans to send contraceptives as Christmas...errr, sorry, Happy Holoday gifts in bundles to developing countries?
Merry advanced Happymas..!
.Agent.
at 10:05 on September 19th, 2009
Plenty of muslims use contraceptives ! Didnt the Pope say no to the supplying of condoms to "third world" Christian countrys ! Genital mutilation is forbidden in Islam, and if you didnt know that you should study before you preach. What denomination are you Barry, as a matter of interest ?
at 19:13 on September 19th, 2009
If you read the story Sputnic you will see this goal is aimed at the developing third world, not the modern world where all faiths most likely use some form of birth control or other!
Of course most Catholics use contraception as well, but in developing countries where Boys are paramount, and a woman who does not bear boys can be ostracized and even killed by the husbands family. The use of contraception according to Islam also needs the approval of the man as well as the woman.
The true word of Islam also includes and outlaws many things, which Imans ignore or misinterpret. You should know that?
Do you actually read the news? , or just gloss over it Sputnic?
Below is a transcript verse from Allah
Ch: 6 V: 151 Say: "Come I will rehearse what Allah hath (really) prohibited you from": join not anything as equal with Him; be good to your parents: kill not your children on a plea of want; We provide sustenance for you and for them; come not nigh to shameful deeds whether open or secret; take not life which Allah hath made sacred except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you that ye may learn wisdom.
As for my religious affiliation, I think it is called the Church of Elvis!
at 14:30 on September 19th, 2009
Sperm are not human ! Your story has an anti Islamic slant and I have reported you for it. Bare branches in India ?
at 14:46 on September 19th, 2009
Reported where?
at 17:40 on September 19th, 2009
Perhaps Sputnic will report me to the Church Police,though he is the one who insinuates Islam. Cultures rely on Boys apparently to pass on the genes, there is certainly enough proof in the world over this. A woman who takes contraception can leave herself open to violence if the husband is left out of the loop and finds out later his wife was on the pill. Like I say this climate change crap is directed to third world countries where laws are not as lienient as our own. I certainly think pointing a wagging finger at the third world is unfair, especially the poor, who I am pretty sure cant afford to buy, yet alone drive a car, concentrating on a persons genitalia as a climate change cure is ludicrious, much like Sputnics rant against me!
at 01:29 on September 20th, 2009
On the contact us thing at the bottom of the page. Would most people not get a what is newsworthy/story has potential flag for something like this ? Its okay if Barry does it though, right ?
at 16:01 on September 20th, 2009
There is nothing anti-Muslim in Barry's story. I suspect you are upset because what Barry published hits a little too close to home for you, Sputnic. Some things about how your religion is actually practiced that you would rather not talk about?
at 17:20 on September 19th, 2009
very interesting.
at 17:59 on September 19th, 2009
Right on Barry...
China is case in point with out of control birthing. They have so many China back alleys with little so called schools everyone in China. One only needs to look around and see. I see over 50-70 kids packed into a small concrete room, all they have is a small chair to sit on....all locked in with big gates to keep them in. These places are nothing but places parents can dump their kids so they can go out to work, and or give them time to screw someone else to plop another new kid into another upcoming baby pen they call a school.
I know exactly what is happening.....the people get their so called improved income to become happily in the sack with some Chinese girl...and suddenly she is pregnant. The government does nothing to encourage no sex or creating more babies.
India is just the same way. One benefit India has is it can speak English and is a Democracy unlike China. China I think will implode upon itself...as India takes the lead in Asia Development because of its English and Language capability, and its method of governance.
That is unless China does more to realize a real market economy. Presently China claims it has a market economy...but it is not. It is controlled by one government party.....but how is it any different than the US with it's really one government policy as well.
Really there is no market economy in the world at this time...It is all controlled by the Corporate Elitists.
China should provide couples money for not having any children. Especially giving money to those couples who will adopt the thousands of kids who have no real parents..
China culture actually promotes more and more kids to be had. They get free rides on the bus, even having people give up their bus seats so a mother or pregnant woman can get your seat... I ask...why should I give them free rides, or my seat..so they can get all the benefits of public transportation. It is a tragedy, but how to discourage them from having more kids?
You can figure one woman will get at least 5 months of shown pregnancy to get a seat on the bus to include an additional 7 years of bus seat benefits because they have the child .
So guess what? Every single person see's this and they say well lets have children, because we get the seats on the bus.. This cultural awareness spreads like wild fire in China...and you see it getting worse and worse in the China public bus system. Old people also get preference for the seats as well....but I find that to be a real problem when you have a pregnant mom and an old person fighting over who has the right to the seat....until everyone on the bus gets out of their seat.....
This is really a sad happening.... The buses should encourage people to not have sex and more babies, and have special buses that only pick up elderly people. It would be safer for for the elderly as well. Maybe even have an attendant who helps them on and off the bus.
We need to get a handle on the out of control population boom...that is imploding China's Economic Development. China leaders say nothing about this...because it shames them and makes them look bad to the people. Well they need to face reality.
Rev. Jermano
at 20:49 on September 19th, 2009
Rev, I thought China had a One-child policy.
at 07:29 on September 20th, 2009
Thanks Rev.
I did not realize this. The Hospice Pastor was a missionary there for years and this is one topic we did not discuss. It was more about spirit, education and their language. It is sad to read about all of this.
I know where I lived for ten years supervising my parents last years my eyes were opened to the moral decline of the farm land areas. First off there are no jobs! If they can't get out to college they are doomed to hang around with other thugs who do drugs. The black population has exploded due to the fact that girls have babies in order to get another check. Then they drop them into round the clock Government funded day cares. The housekeepers daughter had four by the time she was 20. They are unsupervised and left in unbelievable conditions with men coming and going. When the minister would come to pray with us she would laugh and leave the room. We help her as much as we can but then her daughters take her money and leave their kids with her if they have no room in the day care. Thanks to the Welfare program. The little bit of money honestly tho is not nearly enough to feed, dress and house them in decent areas. Then these children are hell on wheels in the classrooms. They introduce K and early grade children to language and behavior that is completely inappropriate.
We are going to have to have more school situations where children who are raised in these conditions are schooled in separate facilities. We are losing good teachers due to this too. Elder care is worse too. A huge depressing subject. As you say Americans need to face this reality instead of worrying so damned much about punishing GB administration. Pick your fights for the vulnerable first I say. Doesn't anyone realize how much money is wasted on these corrupt policticians? Go and fight for the real vulnerable. How about punishing the people who are profiteering from elder care and abusing children to make money?
The children actually should be taken away from homes such is this but the Foster system too in The US is a failure. It has become another source of income for some, not all people who do it solely for the income not for loving the children.
Many of them are medicated which I believe too is controversial. I believe these children are like powder kegs . Wait until they are teens and see the rage come forward into society.
They are in a lot of pain to live in this kind of home.
at 19:12 on September 19th, 2009
Thanks Rev for your comments.
at 00:38 on September 20th, 2009
Mangus its a policy that is another one of their lies. You look at any of the rich chinese in China and they all have more than one kid. The policy is if you break the law and have more than one child, you have to pay the government money in the form called a fine. Now tell yourself; the government does not like that extra income coming into their coffers?....Of course they like the money.....so actually they encourage chinese to have more than one. It's a pretty pathetic policy... They encourage more children born in the rural communities to do the slave rice labor work in the fields.
Now chalk that up to being on a crowded bus...with girls jumping on the bus with skirts much higher than knee level, pressing their boobs in your face, hoping to meet some guy erases all aspects even thinking about an anti sex policy in China or a one child policy.
China has become really ris-kay in a sense with billboards showing ass and boobs to sell their slinky underwears, to include advertisements on how they can increase and grow their boobs, to score more men. There are so many hookers in the downtown....they will take their pants off, without evening asking how much you are going to pay them. They just don't care.
Rev. Jermano
at 06:39 on September 20th, 2009
Barry:
I think the world becomes a worse place every time you write one of your ""op-eds"". Aside from lacking total judgement, sources and reliable information to back up your claims, this diary entry's (I couldn't call it an article) sole intention is to encourage hatred towards Islam, women and the third world. The Lancet's article has NOTHING to do with FGM, Islam or women being beaten by their husbands.
All I can tell from this diary entry is that FGM is too complex an issue for you to understand. Female circumcision exists way before Christianity and Islam came into place. No government or religion in the world allows it, but it is still practiced due to social and cultural backgrounds. WHO: "Though no religious scripts prescribe the practice, practitioners often believe the practice has religious support."
Do you know WHAT countries are the ones called "developing"? I'd like to know your "facts" on this. Do you hold a list of developing countries? How did you come up with the 'poor=muslim=violence' idea? Breaking news: domestic violence happens everywhere, even Canada.
"Guess that would be a bitter and fatal pill to swallow for the woman, considering the majority of these developing and Groovy countries, especially when the demand for many sons far outweighs a womans right to choose to live or die by the husband, cleric, or the village!"
VILLAGE!! oh golly!! You are definitevely well-informed. We live in tepees, wear loincloths, howl at the moon and have skulls hanging from our necks. But don't pity us. We're on the verge of discovering... electricity. lol!
at 07:30 on September 20th, 2009
Arbol you are not following the Code of Conduct here.
at 19:07 on September 20th, 2009
Alright. But if my comment did not 'follow the code of conduct', does this?: "save yourself from obvious embarrassment and only comment on "News Of the World Stories" such as "Batboy, Aliens, Sasquatch and other Chicken Little" stories where your comments would most likely get a Nod from others who are just as inept."
I guess it does, as long as it sticks to certain "ideological standards".
at 16:02 on September 20th, 2009
Maybe to you FGM is "too complex" but it isn't at all too complex to the women who are mutalated this way.
at 07:50 on September 20th, 2009
Below is a list of the least developed countries by the United Nations, Not by me, and what this story infers,picking on the poorest countries instead of the most polluting countries. On another note, most who know me, know I deal in Fact! Something you (Arbol) and Sputnic could easily verify, but one can only assume too blinded to look for things to further your idiotic rants towards me and others on Now Public. Where in my story do I state Muslims is beyond me, I was countering Sputnic's assumptions on my story and now I have to defend my Op/Ed to you an obvious armchair rhetoric conspiracy theorist !
List of Least Developed Countries
Afghanistan
Madagascar
Angola
Malawi
Bangladesh
Maldives
Benin
Mali
Bhutan
Mauritania
Burkina Faso
Mozambique
Burundi
Myanmar
Cambodia
Nepal
Cape Verde
Niger
Central African Republic
Rwanda
Chad
Samoa
Comoros
São Tomé and Principe
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Senegal
Djibouti
Sierra Leone
Equatorial Guinea
Solomon Islands
Eritrea
Somalia
Ethiopia
Sudan
Gambia
Timor-Lesté
Guinea
Togo
Guinea-Bissau
Tuvalu
Haiti
Uganda
Kiribati
United Republic of Tanzania
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Vanuatu
Lesotho
Yemen
Liberia
Zambia
at 20:02 on September 20th, 2009
Yawn. I'm sorry but I must further my 'idiotic rants'. I was hoping for facts, not a copy/pasted list of poor countries. I want to know:
1) Which of these countries practices mainly Islam? For example, Afghanistan is mainly muslim, but Madagascar (#2) IS NOT. It practices mainly animism. Angola, christian. Malawi, christian. Bangladesh and Maldives, muslim (3 out of 6). Benin, animism. Mali, muslim. Bhutan, buddhism, and so on. Blame poverty on economic policies, not religion.
2) It's funny I have to remind you of this, but here I go: I remind you the article you based your random thoughts on is actually about climate change, not about hubby beating his wife.
"The Lancet highlighted a successful programme in Ethiopia which trained people in sustainable land management at the same time as increasing the availability of family planning. It resulted in an immediate improvement to the environment with better agricultural practices.
''The sexual and reproductive health and rights community should challenge the global architecture of climate change, and its technology focus, and shift the discussion to a more human-based, rights-based adaptation approach,'' said the editorial. ''Such a strategy would better serve the range of issues pivotal to improving the health of women worldwide.'' Full article here.
I don't see hubbies beating their wives anywhere. I just see a medical journal encouraging more climate-focused policies.
3) I, as an obvious armchair rhetoric conspiracy theorist, would think in my twisted mind that you're simply making up the whole panic!-brutal-third-world-and-terrorist-filled-countries'-men-will-bury-their-wives-for-taking-the-pill assumption, which is of course very serious unlike my idiotic rants, but I need some more facts before I can go cry on my bed because of your insults: Where is your study on domestic violence for these countries? I guess you absolutely know each of their family policies, birth rates, femicides, cases. And please don't come up with statistics about Afghanistan, that's an easy one!
Just saying.
at 08:04 on September 20th, 2009
Here is some food for thought for Sputnic and Arbol to read. now imagine if this teen dare use contraception. just imagine the consequences of her actions if found out by Hubby dearest?
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/back-behind-veil-our-dreams-are-gone-afghani-women-speak
Now in Future, you Arbol and Sputnic should refrain from commenting on any story you obviously have little knowledge of, save yourself from obvious embarrassment and only comment on "News Of the World Stories" such as "Batboy, Aliens, Sasquatch and other Chicken Little" stories where your comments would most likely get a Nod from others who are just as inept at putting pen to paper in the comments section.
at 12:02 on September 20th, 2009
The video titled "genital mutilation and the Quran" has nothing to do with Islam ? Are you brain damaged ? Lots of people would read that, not bother watching the video and read your subsequent drivel about stonning and associate it with Islam. Did I dream the video ? Are you recovering from a brain operation ? Tourets syndrome ?
at 15:14 on September 20th, 2009
these woman are prisoners of a society full of male egos and control.freaks .God love them.
at 15:21 on September 20th, 2009
Thanks for answering to Sputum for me Jazz, much appreciated
at 20:29 on September 20th, 2009
What did the English do now? Though - as a matter of course - da English are English, not 'Brits' - if you are referring to 'Brits' then you are referring to the whole United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which comprises of: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland!
Grrrrrr! :)