Comments on: Malcolm Potts on empowering Afghanistan’s women

By: Karen Gaia Pitts

Karen Gaia Pitts — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:33:10 +0000

Mullahs promote birth control in Afghanistan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35683222/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

By: Karen Gaia Pitts

Karen Gaia Pitts — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:58:57 +0000

Where do you get your ideas? I have been to a Muslim country (Bangladesh) and have seen how they do it – similar to the way they did me when I was a young mother forty years ago. A government-trained village health worker (female) gives a young woman who is pregnant for the first time a birthing kit – something that will cut risk of her dying from childbirth – and suggests that she comes back for a postnatal visit. When she returns, they see to the health of the child and suggests that the woman might want to wait awhile before she gets pregnant again. That’s when the health care worker is prepared to administer IUDs, pills, or injections. The fertility rate has been reduced to a little under 3.0. Iran has an excellent family planning program and a fertility rate of around 2.0. What is racist about wanting the same thing for foreign women that American women want for themselves – life-saving reproductive health care and contraception? How do you think American women got their fertility rate down from 4 in the 1960s to the current 2?

By: Benjamin Napier

Benjamin Napier — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:15:13 +0000

First, the UN is a travesty and a socialist joke. they do nothing at all productive. Second, the \”family planning\” , mantra is the tool of eugenicists. Third, The major problem in that part of the world, other than the lack of a viable economic system (ie capitalism) is religion. You are not going to get \”enlightenment\” as long as islam holds sway there. The people are more afraid of their god than they are of meddling bureaucrats. Islam needs to go through a reformation.
Fourth, economics. If there is to be a stable country anywhere, the rights outlined in our own Constitution would go a long way toward that end. One must be a real person, owning themselves AND the fruits of their labors. Property and such.

Failing this, all the rest of this is academic foolishness. Wasting money and irritating the molems instead of fixing them.

Remember, in islam, women are chattel, as are children.

By: Qudratullah

Qudratullah — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:50:08 +0000

I think opposite of Malcolm. To me problems of Afghanistan are due to Russia the US and Pakistan.

By: Lindsay Patterson

Lindsay Patterson — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:32:55 +0000

Thanks for noticing the typo. It is correct now!

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:28:48 +0000

Correction.In 1950 there were not 8 billion people in Afghanistan.I would believe 8 million is what you meant.