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UNITED STATES: Seven Billion and Counting
McClatchy Newspapers on 9 October published commentary by Ben Barber on the need for birth control and "political and religious mine field" family planning agencies in the US are walking through. "The gun shy approach to family planning comes after the George W. Bush administration cut funding for UNFPA over dubious reports that UN family planning teams in China shared office space with Chinese officials engaged in forced abortions and sterilizations. The anti birth control backlash in the last 15 years has undermined the global effort that was getting population growth under control in the 1980s and 1990s." Read in English: Star-Telegram