All Posts Tagged With: "birth control"
China’s One-Child Disaster
On February 28 a Reuters news story quoted Zhao Baige, the Chinese vice minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC), as indicating that the People’s Republic of China might change its “one-child policy.” That population-control policy limits the number of children Chinese couples are legally permitted to have. The default number is [...]
1Jun2008 | Wendy McElroy | 5 comments | ContinuedPharmacists and Freedom
According to the newspapers, pharmacists throughout the United States are refusing to fill prescriptions for the “morning-after” pill and other contraceptives because of religious objections. This has caused some concern and has prompted at least one governor to intervene. Last spring Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich issued an emergency order requiring pharmacies to honor all prescriptions. [...]
1Jul2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom of Conscience and the Welfare State
Who says the welfare state respects freedom of conscience? Consider: In March the California Supreme Court ruled that employer-provided prescription-drug plans must cover birth-control products, even if contraception violates an employer’s religious convictions. The conscientious objector in the case is Catholic Charities of Sacramento. The nonprofit organization, which is part of the Roman Catholic Church, [...]
1Jun2004 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedKnut Wicksell: A Sesquicentennial Appreciation
Richard Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at Hillsdale College. In the early months of 1889 a 37-year-old Swedish student named Knut Wicksell was walking through the streets of Berlin in Germany when he happened to notice in the window of a bookstore a recently published [...]
1Dec2001 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Post Office as a Violation of Constitutional Rights
In September 2000, the United States Postal Service (USPS) launched a $12 million campaign to advertise a new Internet service, eBillPay, through which customers could pay their bills electronically. EBillPay is one of several new e-services designed to woo back the growing army of Americans who would rather click a mouse than lick a stamp [...]
1May2001 | Wendy McElroy | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Life of a Grand Old Liberal
Moses Harman (1830–1910) is the sort of social visionary whom historians often overlook, even though his influence during his own lifetime was immense. Harman lived most of his life in the American midwest, sharing many of the values that are associated with the region: he was a soft-spoken, hard-working, and devoted family man with an [...]
1Feb1999 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedBillions for a Misconception
The children of David Packard, the late Silicon Valley entrepreneur who co-founded the Hewlett-Packard Company, have a monumental job on their hands. Since their father’s death in 1996, they have been charged with fulfilling his most passionate desire: to spend billions of the family foundation’s dollars on behalf of world population control. If Mr. Packard [...]
1Jul1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued-
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