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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:43:46 EST
From:         "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
Subject:      Population Control Part 2 of 3

    Part 2 of 3 parts.

    Hence this year's "Earth Summit" in Brazil. A premier event with so
much clout, even President Bush felt obligated to attend, and population
control was already very much on the global agenda.

    British feminist Paulene Conner says population control has already
been on the RU486 research agenda right from the beginning. Conners says
it's the central concern in the development of RU486 had been women's
health and welfare, it would have been one of the first long term
proposals of the scientists involved in the research.

    Paulene: They didn't propose that, when that could have been discused
they were talking about measures to stem global population growth, not
women's health.

    So called "Father" of the French Abortion Pill is Professor
Etienne-Emile Baulieu who developed the drug here in Paris. Professor
Baulieu has served on the board of the World Health Organization, and is
actively involved around the world in the promotion of his RU486 compound
for abortion. Committed to his call are groups like the World Bank, the
World Health Organization, and the well funded international Planned
Parenthood Federation, headquartered in London.

    In an article published by People, Professor Baulieu describes what
he calls "My hopes for RU486". Baulieu ends the article by writing "It is
absolutely essential to balance population and resources by reducing
fertility to 2.1 or 2.2 children per couple everywhere. We must hold
ultimate world population to 10 billion. The alternative just doesn't
bear thinking about."

    Baulieu says reproductive research is his passion. The now, world
renown scientist told CBN News that he was strongly influenced in that
direction more than 20 years ago by the father of reproductive research,
Gregory Pinkhouse. Through notorious test trials in Puerto Rico in the
1950s, Pinkhouse developed the first contraceptive pill. Robert Wheeling
says Pinkhouse once referred to Puerto Rico as a "CAGE OF OVULATING
FEMALES."

    RW: And thousands of poor women were used as basically laboratory
rats subjected to very high, dangerous doses of synthetic hormones. Many
of them died or suffered very severe after effects.

    Third world women may soon serve the same sort of purpose for
Pinkhouse's prize pupil, Professor Baulieu. But Baulieu, like his
population control peers, sees his aim as a moral high road whose end is
eliminating poverty in the third world.

    But poverty might not be the only issue. Professor Baulieu's mentor,
Gregory Pinkhouse had a mentor of his own, who helped start him on the
road to reproductive research, a woman now well known for her racist
writings and hatred for the poor.

    Professor Baulieu: The discovery of the contraceptive pill by Gregory
Pinkhouse and the fact he developed it is due, in my opinion, to a woman,
and actually the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger.

    Pauleen: All the ideas that she espoused had to do with controlling
and stultifying the fertility of the poor. Because of costs, she saw that
the poor were one of the greatest threats to civilized society.

    The sentiments of Margaret Sanger are echo throughout contemporary
population control arguments, with out of course, the blatant racist
overtones. And, as a sort of grandmother to the development of RU486,
Sanger's thoughts also permeate the propaganda for its use in third world
countries. Whelan says one of the main obstacles population controllers
must overcome in order to promote their message of salvation for the
third world through birth control is the still strong influence of
religious taboos on abortion in third world countries.

    (MAKS> Is anyone starting to see the larger picture of the "Freedom
of Choice" act? Silence the voice in America and they can tell the third
world countries that "All is well in America, abortion is normal, even
protected by law. You need this type of protection if you want to
survive.")

Maks.
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