Christopher White

Donating Eggs for Altruism and Profit — and Cancer

By Christopher White July 29, 2015

Last week marked the 37th birthday of Louise Brown, commonly known as “the world’s first test-tube baby.” Her British parents were the first couple to successfully have a child using ...

Culture

The Hidden Costs of Surrogacy

By Christopher White January 27, 2015

The Gambit, a New Orleans–based weekly paper, recently reported on a gay Louisiana couple’s quest to become parents via commercial surrogacy or, in simpler terms, contract pregnancy. Commercial surrogacy remains illegal in ...

Politics & Policy

Why Gestational Surrogacy Is Wrong

By Jennifer Lahl & Christopher White April 10, 2014

On April 1, the Louisiana House passed HB 187, a bill creating a judicial framework that makes gestational surrogacy enforceable. The debate over the bill in Louisiana is only one ...

Kristof Is Wrong to Hail the ‘Birth Control Solution’

By Christopher White November 3, 2011

Today’s opinion page of the New York Times features Nicholas Kristof hailing “The Birth Control Solution” to “many of the global problems that confront us.” This is nothing new for ...

The Right Way to Celebrate World Population Day

By Rebecca Marchinda & Christopher White July 14, 2011

Monday was World Population Day, and in order to mark the occasion, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has launched a new campaign, 7 Billion Actions. (Come this October, world population ...

Re: Population Growth in the Philippines

By Christopher White February 9, 2011

Andrew, you take issue with my “rhetorical flourishes,” namely my use of the words “imposed” and “coercive” to describe the proposed legislation in the Philippines. A widely agreed upon definition ...

Population Growth in the Philippines: Problem or Potential?

By Christopher White February 8, 2011

In one week, a population-control bill in the Philippines is likely to be passed that supports coercive government-funded family-planning initiatives for demographically targeted populations. If passed, one year or even ...

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