Sunday, December 6, 2009

Population control history has been full of abuse:

Since its beginnings in the 19th Century and especially
since its exponential growth after World War II, the
global population control movement has inflicted documented
human rights abuses on millions of women
worldwide. During the overpopulation hysteria of
the 1960s and 1970s and into the 1980s, nations from
Mexico to India implemented coercive population control
policies that forcibly sterilized millions of women,
forced millions more to have abortions, and also forcibly
sterilized millions of men. Some of these abuses
routinely continue to this day, particularly in China.
Columbia University History Professor Matthew Connelly
wrote in Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control
World Population, “The great tragedy of population
control, the fatal misconception, was to think that one
could know other people’s interests better than they
knew it themselves.”1 In the case of the global population
control movement, it was and is wealthy, elite,
white Western people deciding how many children less
fortunate people should have. Connelly details the racist
agenda of the founders of the modern population
control movement, which wanted to reduce the number
of “racially inferior” human beings. Just a few examples
of the resulting systematic human rights abuses are below.

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