New Stats: Europe Facing Demographic Winter, Growing Political, Economic...
15th Sep 08
Population statistics and projections were released recently showing that European countries are dying out, even with immigration, their populations aging and shrinking. A report released this week by Eurostat, the European Union's statistical service, showed that by 2015, the number of deaths in Europe will have outstripped the number of births. By 2060, the ratio of people of working age to those over age 65 will be two to one.
None of the countries of Europe currently have a general fertility rate above replacement level and it is predicted that what is being called a "demographic winter" will strike Europe within thirty years. The report showed that the growth momentum of Europe's 27 member states will continue to carry it until 2035; after this the population...
Pharmaceutical Industry the Driving Force in Destruction of Embryos
23rd Nov 05
According to Dr Vincent Twomey, Professor of Moral Theology in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Ireland, “expediency was the basis of those laws passed by European countries to allow experimentation on human embryos and, more recently, stem-cell research and cloning for so-called ‘therapeutic’ reasons—also recommended earlier this year by the Irish Government-appointed bioethical commission.”...