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		<title>Watch this Legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2011/03/06/watch-this-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this Legislation—2-2011 © Richard Grossman MD, 2011 What is this country coming to? Even if you are not concerned about population issues, you should be concerned about various legislative actions that are gestating now. These bills, if they become law, will be serious steps backwards for the rights of half of our voting population—women. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vital Need for Family Planning and Abortion Services</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2010/10/17/the-vital-need-for-family-planning-and-abortion-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vital Need for Family Planning and Abortion Services Richard Grossman, a member of Durango (Colo.) Meeting, has practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Durango since 1976. He is clerk of Quaker Earthcare Witness. I am proud to belong to a religion that honors diversity. This seems to be a constant in Quakerism. Our testimonies are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Next Step</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2010/10/06/take-the-next-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was an accident. In 1994 I spent a day with the political reporter, Robert Fisk, in Egypt. I had never heard of Fisk before, but the experience changed me. We were part of a press tour organized by the Egyptian government to look at family planning clinics during the International Conference on Population and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to &#8220;The Pill&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2010/08/10/happy-birthday-to-the-pill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to “The Pill”—5-2010 © Richard Grossman MD, 2010 It was fifty years ago that the Food and Drug Administration approved “the pill”. What a half-century it has been! The birth control pill made it possible for couples to have sex without concern about pregnancy. True, before hormonal contraceptives there were other contraceptives—but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No on Amendment 48</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2009/02/21/no-on-amendment-48/</link>
		<comments>http://www.population-matters.org/2009/02/21/no-on-amendment-48/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article below may be copied or published but must remain intact, with attribution to the author. I also request that the words “First published in the Durango Herald” accompany any publication. For more information, please write the author at: richard@population-matters.org.   No on Amendment 48 © Richard Grossman MD, 2008     “Congress shall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utilize the Media for Reproductive Health</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/12/20/utilize-the-media-for-reproductive-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“To be effective, we need to tell our story in many songs and films.” David M. Johns, in“Our Real Challenge: Managing Ourselves Instead of Nature”The media are valuable to keep people informed about the problems caused by our growing population. In addition, they can broadcast information about ways to slow our expansion. Even more important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wear the Implanon Contraceptive Implant</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/10/24/wear-the-implanon-contraceptive-implant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/10/24/wear-the-implanon-contraceptive-implant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that a new contraceptive just became available in Durango? Implanon was approved for use in this country over two years ago, but its manufacturer has been very cautious in making it available. Almost all women can safely use Implanon. It is effective for up to three years, and can be removed easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Envision the Ideal Baby Food</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/09/20/envision-the-ideal-baby-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/09/20/envision-the-ideal-baby-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a food that is ideal nutritionally, is inexpensive and prevents many diseases. Wouldn’t you expect such a product to be used universally? Guess again! Breast milk is all of the above, and more. Sadly, only one child in seven born in the USA is given just breast milk at six months of age, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to the People who Picket Planned Parenthood</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/08/05/21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/08/05/21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I respect people who have strong convictions and are willing to express them. I have demonstrated for peace recently on Main Avenue, and elsewhere, during the Viet Nam war. I also walked in the largest demonstration ever in Washington D.C., the “March to Save Women’s Lives”.]]></description>
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		<title>Haunted in India</title>
		<link>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/02/25/haunted-in-india/</link>
		<comments>http://www.population-matters.org/2007/02/25/haunted-in-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image of Varanasi that stays with me is not the chanting and bell ringing while seven saffron-robed priests gesture with incense and flames. It is not the nine clouds of smoke as bodies are cremated on the steps beside the Mother Ganges. It is not the press of dense crowds of people-whom I found [...]]]></description>
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