December 13, 2021 | Articles
Update: Texas Abortion “Bounty” Law The fight over Senate Bill 8, Texas’s notorious abortion “bounty” law, continues to make its way through the judicial system. The law, which bans abortion after about six weeks into pregnancy, allows anyone from any state who believes the law has been violated to file…...
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… Texas’ newest abortion law allows any private citizen to sue an abortion provider or any other person, including a driver, who helps a woman obtain an abortion. If successful, they can collect a bounty. It’s a blatantly unconstitutional law, upending decades of precedent. The law bans abortions after about…...
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As each year draws to a close, there’s a lot lawmakers want to get done before time runs out. This year is no exception, with some things moving faster than others. Appropriations Process Stalls The Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations process continues to move forward, albeit at a lurching pace. As…...
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Far from eastern Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, on whose shores Jane Goodall conducted her pioneering research with chimpanzees, Big Darby Creek flows for 84 miles through northwestern central Ohio, skirting around Columbus before emptying into the Lower Scioto River. The Ohio Nature Conservancy reports, “Wetlands in the area support such plant…...
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Assessing performance is integral to a teacher’s job. Every other year, we ask those educators who have participated in our PopEd workshops to appraise our work. How do they rate the quality of our teaching materials and overall presentation? How have they used the materials since their PopEd training? How…...
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Members and supporters from across the country joined in our fall 2021 events. We’re happy to see so many of you taking advantage of these opportunities to learn, discuss population issues, and network with each other! Page Turners Book Club We hosted two Population Connection Page Turners book club meetings…...
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Copyright (c) 2021 by the authors and reprinted with permission of Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC. cover image of The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams The Book of Hope is largely a transcript of several long-form interviews that author Douglas Abrams conducted…...
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I was very happy with your last magazine that addressed the common misconception that a stable population means economic disaster. To the contrary, population stabilization is the only way we will ever have a livable earth and sustainable economy. I was so pleased, in fact, that I made an extra…...
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When trying to explain to my husband recently why I prefer hiking alone (dogs don’t count!), I quoted Jane Goodall from a recent article in TIME: “If you’re alone, you feel part of nature. If you’re with one other person, even somebody you love, it’s two human beings in nature—and…...
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Yasmeen Silva When Yasmeen Silva was five or six, she told her mother that she wanted to volunteer at a soup kitchen for the holidays. Her mom wasn’t sure where Yasmeen had learned about this opportunity, but honored her young daughter’s request—that year, the whole family served meals to unhoused…...
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