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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:42:34 EST
From:         "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
Subject:      Population Control Part 1 of 3

    Part 1 of 3...

    Table of Contents: What is the plan for world population control?
                       Human life means nothing.
                       Pop-ulution or "People Pollution.
                       The poor - one of the greatest threats to
                                  civilized society.

    I had asked for the spelling of Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor
of the RU486 drug. I've got Britannica here and several years of year
books, but it was only after scanning about 4-5 of the "Medical and
Health" yearbooks that I finally found a picture of him explaining his
drug, but no mention in the index or anywhere else. If it hadn't been for
the picture, I would not have found the spelling of the name.

    The other curious point I found was that every mention of the drug
was about how good it was and how it was only blocked by religious
fanatics and religion in general. In other words, very little said on why
the Pro-Life side choose to oppose it, and lots on how wonderful it is.

    Given what those interested will be reading below, consider this: "If
a drug could be found which would be similar to some of the smart
insecticides, that would make say, 50% of the population sterile and it
fell into the hands of these people, what would they do?" Considering
what the one priest saying "No one being Pro-Choice can be called
Christian" and if he knows or has first hand experience of these type of
things, perhaps this was the cause of his reaction. Pro-Choice either
directly or indirectly supports these people.

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    Pat: The new president has promised to take several actions regarding
abortion, and one of these promises to allow the so called "Abortion
Pill" RU486 to be imported into this country. But some international
authorities hope that pill will only be one part of a larger plan to
control the world's population growth . Population Control seems like a
noble goal. But as Linda Freeman reports, Population control can have
it's dark side as well.

    "Life is so hard. If we have more children, I pity them, because they
will just suffer."

    Dramatic documentaries like this one seriously tell us that we humans
are rapidly ravaging the planet, through over population, and pollution
of the earth's resources. The solution to many prominent thinkers world
wide is fertility control, especially in the third world. And RU486, the
controversial French abortion pill is being viewed by some of them as the
first giant step toward effectively controlling third world population
growth.

    Robert Whelan: RU486 which we can say is perhaps the first of this
new generation of anti-fertility measures has been licensed in France,
it's been licensed in Great Britain, and now they are DESPERATE to get it
licensed in America, because then they can go to the third world and say
"Look, American women who are rich, they are prepared to accept RU486, so
now you must have it."

    Author of "Choices in Child Bearing", Robert Whelan is the Director
of the Committee on Population and the Economy, a conservative London
based research group that focuses on population issues.

    RW: Every major means of controlling fertility, which has been
developed since the 2nd World War has really had the Third World in view.
The aim has been to find what people refer to as "The Perfect
Contraceptive" to bring down population growth.

    Why the alarm about population growth worldwide? In the 1960's media
darling Paul Ehrlich falsely argued that population growth would lead to
mass famines throughout the world by the 1980s, including America. When
those predictions failed to come true, the conventional wisdom then
became that population growth would result in mass poverty. But that
notion also was flawed.

    Even the World Bank itself, a leading world wide promoter of
population control, recently admitted that economic growth is keeping
well ahead of population growth.

    In spite of failed predictions, Ehrlich and his brand of
environmentalism remain a favorite of the mainstream media. But now
Robert Whelan, says the population control lobby is on to environmental
arguments with the central notion that PEOPLE ARE THE SOURCE OF
POLLUTION.

    RW: Some of them go even further and say "People *ARE* pollution".
They use the phrase, "Pop-ulution", people pollution. And they're
destroying the planet and cutting down the trees, we're sending up tree
house gasses which are going to alter world climate and so on.
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