VOLUME 57 | ISSUE 1 | MARCH 2025
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Surge in Americans Getting Sterilizations Given States’ Abortion Laws
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In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022, permanent sterilization consultations and procedures—especially for vasectomy—have increased to the point where patient waiting lists at urology clinics are often months long. A new study found that, as a group, young men ages 19–26 had 95% more vasectomies in August 2022 than in May 2022. Another study looked at patients of all ages and found that vasectomy services steadily increased from 146,796 in 2019 to 198,212 in 2022. This issue explores the stories of the real people behind these statistics.
Click through below to read the featured article of the March 2025 issue of Population Connection.
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[[link removed]] Standing Together for Reproductive Freedom
The #Fight4HER is reimagining what “resistance” looks like within the context of a second Trump presidency.
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[[link removed]] Florida Man Takes Office, Chaos Ensues
Chaos may be too tame a word to describe the first weeks of this administration.
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[[link removed]] Educating the Youngest Global Citizens
The PopEd team recently released a new version of our K-5 curriculum, Counting on People: K-5 Activities for Global Citizenship .
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[[link removed]] Kicking Off 2025 and Looking Forward to Spring
Population Connection members and supporters tuned in for a variety of events to start the year. Next, we're gearing up for Earth Day!
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[[link removed]] Global Partner Spotlight: Seeds for a Future
Guatemala-based Seeds for a Future was founded by two longtime Population Connection members. The organization helps families break out of the poverty trap by improving their health, introducing them to new sources of income, and giving their kids the best start in life.
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[[link removed]] President’s Circle Member Profile: Wayne Grody, MD, PhD
Dr. Wayne Grody has been a steadfast member of Population Connection since the early 1970s. His interest in environmentalism and population challenges began in early adulthood, after taking a population-oriented course at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Friend,
While I have an active imagination, I can’t fully envision the panoply of putrid policies that will have spewed from Trump’s Sharpie by the time this column reaches you.
I’m writing this in the immediate aftermath of Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of USAID, the agency charged with providing humanitarian aid to the least among us.
Trump has “flooded the zone,” to use Steve Bannon’s phrase, with a torrent of execrable executive orders. While a vomitorium is defined as a wide corridor designed to get people into or out of a venue quickly, the word seems like an appropriately odoriferous description of what America’s Oval Office has now become.
It was not surprising that Trump gave choice inaugural seating to what the despicable Bannon accurately described as “techno-feudalists,” who “don’t believe in the underlying tenets of self-governance.” To be clear, given the choice between living in a world ruled by Bannon and one controlled by those digital dictators, I might well take Musk up on an offer to relocate to Mars.
How should we react? I would respectfully submit that the first—and perhaps hardest—thing we must do is to stop reacting. Right now, Trump is wielding his manic laser pointer. We need to stop acting like frantic felines. Rather, we must immediately focus on effective ways to stand and fight. Marches and rallies, by themselves, are not substitutes for a serious strategy.
Our republic, which will turn 249 years old this coming July 4, still has firewalls. Our courts have not (yet) acquiesced to the Musk/Trump coup. And our congressional allies, while they may be in the minority, still have power, provided that they don’t just rely on strongly worded statements and speeches.
Stay tuned for the congressional debate on the Continuing Resolution currently funding the government, which expires on March 14. Then, by some as-yet-unknown date, Congress must act to increase the federal debt limit. Our legislative allies must confront Trump around these deadlines — as dangerous as that may be. Then will come next year’s elections.
This has everything to do with our mission to stop overpopulation. Trump and his repugnant renegades are taking a chainsaw to programs here at home and around the world that enable women to make the choices that we know lead to smaller families, and they are deliberately annihilating efforts to address the climate crisis and so much more.
Trump shrewdly presents himself as an irresistible force. We must be immovable objects. We must show the world he is nothing more than a failed businessman who couldn’t even make money running a casino and who is now recklessly gambling with the future of our nation and the planet.
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