KISSINGER REPORT2004
A Retrospective on NSSM-200

Brian Clowes, Ph.D.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview 4
A Partial Listing of Key Players and Organizations Behind NSSM-200 6
Background 8
Summary of NSSM-200’s Strategy 9
Why NSSM-200 Must be Repudiated by the Bush Administration 10
Population Control is a Concept Whose Time Has Come—And Gone 11
The Origins of Population Control 11
Changing Justifications 12
The Population “Crisis” is Over 16
Population Momentum
16
World Population Trends
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To See the Future of the World, Look to Europe 19
There is Only One Solution to the Impending Depopulation Crisis 20
Atrocities Committed in the Name of Population Control 22
Introduction 22
Peru 22
China 23
Uganda 25
Squandered Billions 27
Conclusions and Recommendations 29
Recommended Resources 30
Endnotes 31

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OVERVIEWOn December 10, 1974, the United States National Security Council promulgated National Security Study
Memorandum 200 (NSSM-200), also called The Kissinger Report. This document explicitly laid out adetailed strategy by which the United States would aggressively promote population control in developing nations in order to regulate (or have better access to) the natural resources of these countries (seeendnote 2).
In order to protect U.S. commercial interests, NSSM-200 cited a number of factors that could
interrupt the smooth flow of materials from lesser-developed countries, LDCs as it called them, tothe United States, including a large population of anti-imperialist youth, who must, according to
NSSM-200, be limited by population control. The document identified 13 nations by name that would
be primary targets of U.S.-funded population control efforts.
According to NSSM-200, elements of the implementation of population control programs could
include: a) the legalization of abortion; b) financial incentives for countries to increase their abortion,sterilization and contraception-use rates; c) indoctrination of children; and d) mandatory population
control, and coercion of other forms, such as withholding disaster and food aid unless an LDC implements population control programs.
NSSM-200 also specifically declared that the United States was to cover up its population control activities and avoid charges of imperialism by inducing the United Nations and various non-governmental organizations to do its dirty work.
While the CIA and Departments of State and Defense have issued hundreds of papers on population control and national security, the U.S. government has never renounced NSSM-200, but has only
amended certain portions of its policy. NSSM-200, therefore, remains the foundational document on
population control issued by the United States government.
NSSM-200’s strategies have resulted in regional population growth rates decelerating so fastthat they are already causing severe economic and social problems in Europe, the former Soviet Union,
Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Many developing nations are now aging even more rapidly thanthe developed world, which foretells of even more severe problems for their relatively underdeveloped
economies.
Over the past 40 years there has been much disagreement over whether or not population control programs are necessary for those nations with the most rapidly growing populations. There canbe no disagreement now, however, except among those organizations whose incomes depend upon suchprograms.
From the very beginning, the “population explosion” concept was an ideologically motivatedfalse alarm. The resulting push for population control in LDCs has borne absolutely no positive fruit in
its decades of implementation. In fact, population control ideologies and programs make it even moredifficult to respond to the impending grave crisis looming in the form of a disastrous worldwide “population implosion.”
Therefore, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of NSSM-200, Human LifeInternational calls on the Bush administration to repudiate this document, which advocates violating themost precious freedoms and autonomy of the individual through coercive family planning programs,
and to redirect its foreign policy and funding towards family-friendly programs.
The citizens of the developed nations of the West treasure their right to privacy. It is hypocritical for these countries to routinely violate the right to privacy of the citizens of LDCs by telling families
how many children they should or should not have. No nation has the right to invade the bedroomsof the citizens of another nation. NSSM-200 represents the epitome of interference in a family’s mostintimate decisions.

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NSSM-200 does not emphasize the rights or welfare of individuals or of nations, just the “right”
of the United States to have unfettered access to the natural resources of developing nations. The
United States and the other nations of the developed world, as well as ideologically motivated population control NGOs, should be supporting and guiding authentic economic development that allows thepeople of each nation to use their resources for their own benefit, thereby leading to an enhancement of
human rights worldwide and healthier economies for all.

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A PARTIAL LISTING OF KEY PLAYERS AND ORGANIZATIONS BEHIND
NSSM-200
PeopleHenry A. Kissinger, former National Security Advisor and United States Secretary of State, primaryauthor of NSSM-200. He played a major role in formulating United States foreign policy, including
population policy. Since 1977 he has lectured and served as a consultant on international affairs.
Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), 37th President of the United States (1969-1974), under whose authority NSSM-200 was written and approved.
Thomas Malthus, author of the 1798 work An Essay on the Principle of Population, which postulated
that mass starvation would be an eventual result of “overpopulation.” This would be so, argued Malthus,
because population increases geometrically, while food production increases only arithmetically. Bothlegs of his theory have been decisively disproved (Referenced pp. 7, 11-13).
Margaret Sanger, eugenicist and founder of the American Birth Control League (ABCL), later International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world’s largest and most influential promoter ofabortion. Sanger is still revered as an icon by feminists and abortion-rights activists (Referenced pp. 11,
14, 32).
Paul Ehrlich, the founder of Zero Population Growth, is one of the world’s most influential population
controllers. He has predicted (wrongly) that large-scale famines would occur in the United States by theyear 1985. He still has many followers, and his organization, recently renamed the “Population Connection,” continues to lobby hard for a reduced population (Referenced pp. 13, 32).
Werner Fornos is president of the Population Institute and is a leading population control alarmist,
who frequently uses outdated and false statistics and scenarios to convince people that the world is overpopulated (Referenced pp. 14, 33).
Timothy Wirth, former State Department Undersecretary and “Population Czar” and current presidentof the United Nations Foundation, is one of America’s leading proponents of the use of condoms to
restrain population growth and retard the spread of AIDS (Referenced p. 25).
Organizations
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is one of the world’s leading population control
organizations. It has been implicated for massively aiding the Chinese forced-abortion program and for
directing the Peruvian forced sterilization program. UNFPA continues to insist that world populationmust be curtailed for the sake of the environment (Referenced pp. 14, 22-24, 27-28, 33-34).
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was one of the original collaborators in the writing of NSSM-200. Today, it is very active in promoting population control innations such as Peru and Uganda, even undercutting effective abstinence-based programs with ineffective condom distribution schemes (Referenced pp. 8, 22-23, 25, 27-28, 29, 33).

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the United States of America’s largest abortion provider, doing about a quarter million of the procedures each year. It is heavily funded by thegovernment and is the leading abortion advocate in the United States (Referenced p. 32).
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), with more than 180 family planning associations (FPAs) around the world, is the largest international promoter of abortion and other means offamily planning (Referenced pp. 6, 28, 32).
The Club of Rome issued an influential 1972 study titled The Limits to Growth, which promoted theMalthusian view that the 21st Century would be a time of mass starvation and energy shortages
because the population of the earth would have exceeded its carrying capacity. This theory is outdated,because world population will soon level off, while food production continues to increase (Referenced p.
16).
Both UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) are mentioned several times in NSSM-200 as cooperating agencies in a consortium whose
purpose is to set up public health systems in lesser-developed countries. These systems would explicitly include family planning services. NSSM-200 also mentions UNICEF and WHO as being leadersin the implementation of the World Population Plan of Action. Additionally, NSSM-200 designates
UNICEF and WHO as organizations assisting UNFPA-financed population projects. UNICEF helps todirectly fund UNFPA’s involvement in the Chinese forced-abortion program, and has praised China as
the world’s most “baby-friendly” nation.
NSSM-200 mentions the United Nations’ World Bank as being a collaborator with the United States inestablishing family planning services in lesser-developed countries. The authors of NSSM-200 regretthat the Bank did not at the time (1974) seem willing to get deeply involved in population control projects, but instead wanted to focus more strongly on loans to boost agricultural production (Referenced
pp. 10, 22, 28, 33).

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BACKGROUND
For nearly a century, the United States of America has been the acknowledged world leader in providing
humanitarian aid to countries in need, whether caused by famine, war or natural disaster.
Despite the generosity of the United States, its image in the developing world has sufferedtremendously over the past 30 years.
Some Western analysts claim this is due to American unilateralism; others attribute it to thefact that Americans, with one-sixteenth of the world’s population, consume one-third of the world’s
resources.
People do not usually change their attitudes so radically, however, unless they are negatively
affected in a direct way. So we need to ask ourselves the question: How has the United States adversely
affected the lives of millions of people in developing nations?
There is no single cause for the “sea change” in opinion among people who live in developing
nations, but one thing is certain—if one nation undermines or attempts to manipulate the most intimate
relationships of the people in another country, many of the latter are inevitably going to feel deep andlasting resentment and anger.
No human relationships are closer or more intimate than those found in the family. Yet theUnited States has spent nearly 20 billion dollars since 1965 attempting to control the number of children
born to families in developing nations through the widespread imposition of abortion, sterilization andbirth control under the umbrella terms “family planning services” and “reproductive health.” Tragically,
population abuses have been committed by U.S.-funded organizations in a number of nations. These
abuses include widespread forced abortions and sterilizations, mandatory birth control, and follow-up
healthcare so shoddy that it has led to a number of fatalities.1
Many organizations and individuals have focused almost exclusively on the human rights abuses
committed by overzealous healthcare officials in “family planning” programs. Their focus, however, is too
narrow. The time has come not only to eliminate population control abuses, but population control itself.
Because of rapidly-changing world demographic trends, the concept of “population control” is not only
outdated, it actually contributes to conflict in the world at large.
On December 10, 1974, the United States National Security Council, the highest decision-making
body on foreign policy in the United States, promulgated a highly-classified document called National
Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM-200), also called The Kissinger Report, with the subject heading
Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests. This document,
published shortly after the first major international population conference in Bucharest, was the result of
collaboration among the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), and the Departments of State, Defense and Agriculture. On November 26,
1975, NSSM-200 became official foreign policy when it was endorsed by National Security Decision
Memorandum 314.
Declassified in 1989, NSSM-200 was made public the following year when it was transferredto the United States National Archives in response to a request from a journalist. The document
summarized what was to become United States population control policy and strategy beginning in 1974
(as described in the next section). Despite massive and widespread demographic changes in the world
over the past 30 years, NSSM-200 continues to reflect America’s population control policy.
Although the CIA and the Departments of State and Defense have prepared hundreds of papers
dealing with population control and national security, they only update certain portions of policy in
NSSM-200, which remains the foundational document on population control issued by the United States
government.

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SUMMARY OF NSSM-200’s STRATEGYNSSM-200 explicitly lays out the detailed strategy by which the United States government aggressively
promotes population control in developing nations in order to regulate (or have better access to) thenatural resources of these countries.
The following outline shows the elements of this plan. (The endnotes contain actual quotes from
NSSM-200.)(1) The United States needs widespread access to the mineral resources of less-developed nations(LDCs).2(2) The smooth flow of resources to the United States could be jeopardized by LDC government
action, labor conflicts, sabotage, or civil disturbance, which are much more likely if populationpressure is a factor.3(3) Young populations are also much more likely to challenge imperialism and the world’s power
structures, so their numbers should be kept down if possible.4(4) Therefore, the United States of America must develop a commitment to population control
among key LDC leaders, while bypassing the will of their people.5(5) Critical elements of implementation include:• Identifying primary targets—13 key nations that represent nearly half of all world
population growth.6• Enlisting the aid of as many multilateral population control organizations as possible inthis worldwide project.7• Recognizing that no country has ever controlled its population growth without recourse
to legal abortion.8• Designing programs with financial incentives for countries to increase their abortion,sterilization and contraception-use rates.9• Concentrating on “indoctrinating” [NSSM-200’s language] the children of LDCs with
anti-natalist propaganda.10• Designing and instigating propaganda programs and sex-education curricula intended toconvince couples to have smaller families, regardless of social or cultural considerations.11(These programs will also be aggressively promoted in LDCs, especially if those nations
would benefit from larger populations [i.e., Nigeria {NSSM-200, page 21} and Brazil{NSSM-200, page 22}]).
• Investigating the desirability of mandatory [NSSM-200’s language] population control
programs.12• Considering using coercion in other forms, such as withholding disaster and food aid
unless an LDC implements population control programs.13(6) Throughout the implementation process, the United States must hide its tracks and disguise its
programs as altruistic. Otherwise there could be a serious backlash. The United States must
convince the leaders and people of LDCs that population reduction is in their own best interests,
hiding the fact that the United States wants access to their natural resources. The United States
also must cover up, or distract attention from, this disturbing truth: Funding for development
and health programs has steadily shrunk, while funding for population programs continues togrow.149

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WHY NSSM-200 MUST BE REPUDIATED BY THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATIONNSSM-200 not only advocates un-American violations of the human rights of millions of people, it
has also become widely perceived as a symbol of imperialistic thinking—a “new colonialism.”
There are several important reasons the Bush administration should repudiate NSSM-200 and
all it stands for, including:• NSSM-200 is un-American. It advocates violating the most precious freedoms and autonomy of
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the individual through coercive “family planning” programs.
NSSM-200 is paternalistic and imperialist in its objectives and in its expression.
NSSM-200 contributes to a bad name for the United States internationally. It epitomizes theattitude of the “ugly American.”NSSM-200 is based on demographic assumptions that are grossly outdated. The time has cometo jettison population control in general as a viable strategy. NSSM-200’s time has come andgone.
Governments do not belong in the business of telling families how many children they shouldor should not have. NSSM-200 represents the epitome of interference in this most intimate
decision.
NSSM-200 is duplicitous and dishonest on its face. While it states that mandatory population
programs may be needed, as shown above, it also cautions that we want to cover up this fact.
NSSM-200 does not emphasize the rights or welfare of individuals or of nations, just the “right”
of the United States to have unfettered access to the natural resources of developing nations.
Instead of the United States positioning itself to take advantage of the natural resources ofother nations, it should be supporting and guiding authentic economic development that allows
the people of each nation to use their resources for their own benefit.
NSSM-200 informs and directs the operations of such powerful worldwide financial institutions
as the World Bank. The U.S. National Advisory Council, in its 1988 annual report to the
President and Congress, described itself as “an advisory body, authorized, inter alia, to review
proposed transactions and programs to the extent necessary or desirable to co-ordinate U.S.
policies. With regard to the international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, theInter-American Development Bank, and the African Development Bank and Fund, the Council
seeks to ensure that, to the maximum extent possible, their operations are conducted in a mannerconsistent with U.S. policies and objectives and with the lending and other foreign financial
activities of U.S. government agencies.” Since NSSM-200 no longer represents United States
policy on population control, it should be voided or superseded.
If the United States government declares NSSM-200 to be outdated and no longer applicable,
it will send a powerful message to the world—and to population control organizations like theUnited Nations Population Fund—that our nation’s emphasis has shifted from telling families
how many children they should have to promoting their welfare.

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POPULATION CONTROL IS A CONCEPT WHOSE TIME HAS
COME—AND GONE
The Origins of Population Control. The modern population control movement was inspired by Rev.
Thomas Malthus, who published his landmark work Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798.
The heart of Malthus’ philosophy, and the cornerstone of the original population controller’s
credo, is evidenced in the following passage from his Essay:
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth
to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in ageometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. . . . By that
law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effectsof these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong andconstantly operating check on population from the difficulty of subsistence.
For more than a century, the early population control movement worked hard to create theMalthusian impression that worldwide mass starvation was just around the corner.
In a 1920 interview with R.C. Martens, a self-described “Authority Upon the World Food
Situation,” Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Review claimed:Within the next few months millions of human beings, mostly Europeans, will
starve to death. Food to meet the needs of the Earths’ population is lacking andcannot be produced in time to avoid the great crash—the crash which will, as its
chief incident, cost uncounted millions of lives, and bring in the train of thatdisaster no one knows what governmental and social changes.15
Figure 1 below is an anti-natalist cartoon from the June 1918 issue of the Birth Control Review.
Figure 1

Source: June 1918 issue of the Birth Control Review.

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It shows a “Mother Earth” figure punching the baby-bearing stork in its long beak and shouting:“Hey, you! Can’t you realize that we need quality, not quantity?”
Malthus’ theory was gradually, but decisively, disproved by rapidly-improving agricultural
technology, and it became obvious at the beginning of the 20th Century that world food production
could indeed easily stay far ahead of the increase in population. His ideas were promulgated before thedemographic and agricultural sciences were fully developed. When the science caught up with the times,
population controllers had to find other justifications for their philosophy and activities.
Changing Justifications. Since they could no longer use imminent food shortages as a rationale for
their theories, population controllers needed a new justification for their activities.
Since about 1960, population control organizations have portrayed the growing population of theworld as a threat to the environment and to the “quality of life” of all people.
As Table 1 and Figure 2 show, the population of the world began to ramp steeply upward in about
the year 1940, adding 4 billion people in a little less than 60 years—an average of a fair-sized city (about
1.3 million) per week.
Certainly this was a cause of alarm for all reasonable people, but many did not respond in areasonable manner.

Table 1
Historical and Projected World PopulationA
Year

World Population (Millions)

1950
1955
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
2025
2030
2035
2040
2045
2050

2,518.6
2,755.8
3,021.5
3,334.9
3,692.5
4,068.1
4,434.7
4,831.0
5,263.6
5,674.4
6,070.6
6,403.7
6,688.6
6,939.5
7,159.0
7,334.2
7,454.4
7,518.2
7,529.3
7,492.2
7,408.6

Annual Change (Millions)
51.86
47.44
53.14
62.68
71.52
75.12
73.32
79.26
86.52
82.16
79.24
66.62
56.98
50.18
43.90
35.04
24.04
12.76
2.22
-7.42
-16.72

Annual Change (Percent)
2.33
1.80
1.84
1.97
2.04
1.94
1.73
1.71
1.72
1.50
1.35
1.07
0.87
0.74
0.62
0.48
0.33
0.17
0.03
-0.10
-0.22

Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. World Population
Prospects: The 2002 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, downloaded from <http://esa.un.org/
unpp> on October 12, 2004. The low variant is used here since, historically, the United Nations low variant for population
projections is the most accurate—and, in many cases, has understated the severity of the situation.
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Figure 2
World Population

Human Life International u www.hli.org

Source: World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision.
<http://esa.un.org/unpp>.

Scaremongering became the tactic of the day, and leaders of the population control movement
made many ridiculous claims, including:• In 1968, Paul Ehrlich, the founder of Zero Population Growth, warned, “The battle to feed••

humanity is already lost . . . we will not be able to prevent large-scale famines in the next
decade.”16 Two years later, Ehrlich’s best-selling book, The Population Bomb, was published. In it,
he said that one-third of the American population—65 million people—would starve to death by
the year 1985. By this time, of course, weight reduction clinics were everywhere, and diet books
and magazines consistently crowded the best-seller lists and the magazine racks of supermarket
checkout counters.
In the 1970s, the population control movement found its voice and frequently used it in anirresponsible manner. Various leading scientists and writers warned us that by 1990 huge
artificial islands would be constructed in the middle of the ocean to handle the earth’s exploding
population; that the world’s oil supplies would be completely depleted by 2000; and that theprime motivator of all wars by the year 1990 would be attacks on other nation’s cached foodstores.17
In 1972, the Club of Rome issued an influential study titled The Limits to Growth, which
promoted the Malthusian view that the 21st Century would be a time of mass starvationand energy shortages because the population of the earth would have exceeded its carrying
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• In 1980, population controllers predicted that: a) By 1995, worldwide compulsory birth control

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would be instituted; b) By 2000, the “Planned Planethood” movement would triumph over allother systems of thought and conception control would be removed from personal choice; c)Males would be sterilized at age 14 after depositing a semen sample in the local frozen gametebank; d) Conception would require approval of a state or federal committee, which would firstinvestigate the genetic health of the two proposed genetic parents and would license conception
only if the parents were of superior “stock”; e) By the year 2000, artificial insemination would
be widely used to produce genetically superior offspring—Margaret Sanger’s dream of a “race ofthoroughbreds” would finally become a reality.18
A 1972 article by David Lytle, which was heavily circulated by Planned Parenthood-World
Population, was chillingly and verbosely titled The Human Race Has Thirty-Five Years Left: After
That, People Will Start Eating Plankton. Or People.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, population controllers predicted that if world population growthcontinued at a rate of 2 percent annually, there would be standing room only by 2610, with only
one square foot of land per person. Physicist Stephen Hawking said that the world population
doubles every 40 years; and, “By the year 2600 the world population will be standing shoulder toshoulder and electricity consumption will make the Earth glow red hot.”19 Planned Parenthoodturned this prediction into physical form—a poster that it widely distributed all over the UnitedStates. The poster was exactly one square foot, and proclaimed: “If present birth rates continue,
there will be one human being standing on every square foot of land on earth. Here’s a squarefoot. Try it. Stand on it. Then take a stand for Planned Parenthood!” World population under this
scenario would be 1,589 trillion, or 250,000 people for every one currently living in 2004.
Despite the fact that world population growth is leveling off, some population control groups
continue to employ apocalyptic language. Werner Fornos, president of the Population Institute,claimed, “In 1997, world population growth turned a little slower. The difference, however, iscomparable to a tidal wave surging toward one of our coastal cities. Whether the tidal wave is
80 feet or 100 feet high, the impact will be similar.”20
In November 2004, Fornos falsely claimed that the earth’s population is still increasing at a
rate of 80 million per year, and said, “We are only getting small snapshots of the long-term
consequences, both in developing and industrialized countries, of shrugging off the necessity tovoluntarily curtail rapid human growth because the best available science is being held hostage
by religious zealotry that drives reactionary right-wing political ideologues. Unless we reverse
this situation, polar bears and seals may follow the path of the dinosaur and the human race could
be next in line.”21
The UNFPA’s State of the World Population 2004 Report struggles to justify the agency’s
continued existence by claiming that overpopulation threatens the earth’s environmental future,a threat that can only be defused by UNFPA’s expanded provision of “family planning” services.
The report also appears to endorse legalized abortion by stating, “The social taboos surrounding
abortion and the penalties for both women who seek abortions and those who provide them arefurther challenges in many countries.” This report also acknowledges that UNFPA has not beensuccessful in bringing the AIDS epidemic under control, but then recommends the continuationof policies that have failed disastrously, most notably, “promoting the correct and consistentuse of condoms” and dispelling the “pervasive myths, misperceptions and fears about condoms”
that may “inhibit their use.” This report also indirectly praises China’s forced abortion programby claiming, “China has seen a dramatic drop in the incidence of poverty” due to its decreased
fertility.22

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In summary, population control organizations have routinely extrapolated current trends far
past the point where they are physically possible in order to frighten people who are not familiar
with statistical theory or demographics. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the people are unschooledin these disciplines, and so uncritically accept the spurious mathematical analyses of the population
controllers without question—simply because they are “experts.”
Such statistical extrapolations obviously have no bearing on reality. They have, however,accomplished their goal. They have convinced the majority of Americans that there is an impending
and critical global overpopulation problem, and this misperception informs the public’s—and thegovernment’s—opinions and decisions.

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THE POPULATION “CRISIS” IS OVER
“Cultures and civilizations rise and fall with the populations on which they are based. . . . This is
the lesson of history.”—Former French Social Affairs Minister Jacques Solideau.23
Population Momentum. It is a basic principle of demographics that worldwide population trends havea huge amount of momentum. If the world hopes to avoid a catastrophic population implosion, thetime has come to stop trying to convince people to have smaller families. The objective of any program
concerned about a worldwide standard of sustainable living should aim for a world population that is
stable or very slowly declining or increasing, in order to avoid the terrible economic and social upheavals
that will inevitably occur if population rapidly declines. The primary purpose of population control
programs was to avoid a catastrophic collapse in the quality of life for billions; the objective of a pronatalist campaign is exactly the same.
The pilot of a half-million ton oil tanker traveling at 20 knots does not reverse his engines when
he is a quarter-mile from the dock; he begins to slow down miles before he reaches his goal.
In the same manner, the only way to accomplish the objective of a steady or slowly declining populationin three or four decades is to begin encouraging families to have more children now. If this is not done,
the entire world will experience the catastrophic population collapse that is just now beginning to be felt
throughout all of Europe and the nations of the former Soviet Union.
World Population Trends. Table 1 shows that the rate of world population growth is already rapidly
decelerating. The population growth rate peaked at a little more than 2 percent a year in 1970, and will
be half that in just 2 years (2006).
Annual world population growth peaked at about 86.5 million additional people in 1990 and has
now dropped to less than 67 million additional people per year. This figure will continue to plunge, until
the world population stabilizes in about the year 2040, just three and a half decades from now.
It is very important to examine the current population situation in Europe and the projected
figures over the next 50 years, because what is happening in Europe now will be happening in thedeveloping world in the near future. Statistics show:(1) The population of the less developed regions of the world is currently more than four times
greater than the population of the more developed regions of the world.24 This means that the
impacts of change in less developed regions of the world will be proportionally greater on theworld economy and stability at large; and(2) The direct impacts on the quality of life of people in the developing world will be far greater
because developing nations are poorer and have less social structures in place to alleviate
suffering. It is said that the developed nations of the world got rich before they got old. The
opposite is true in developing nations, and this will cause problems much more severe than thosecurrently projected to occur in Europe.
Table 2 shows basic population statistics for the 13 nations specifically mentioned in NSSM-200
as population control targets.25 This Table shows that the average total fertility rates of these nations
has plunged by almost half and that their annual population growth rates have shown the same trend.
In fact, the population growth of the entire world is now barely 1 percent per year.

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Table 2
Vital Population Statistics on NSSM-200’s 13 Target Nations

Total Fertility RatesA

Population (Millions)

Annual Population
Growth Rates

Comparative State
Population Density

1975

2005 % Decrease

1975

2004

1975

2005

Bangladesh
BrazilColombia
Egypt
Ethiopia
India
Indonesia
MexicoNigeria
Pakistan
Philippines
ThailandTurkey

6.15
4.72
5.00
5.70
6.80
5.43
5.20
6.52
6.90
6.28
6.00
4.97
5.15

3.21
1.97
2.37
3.04
5.89
2.76
2.10
2.25
5.17
4.83
2.93
1.68
2.18

- 48%
- 58%
- 53%
- 47%
- 13%
- 49%
- 60%
- 65%
- 25%
- 23%
- 51%
- 66%
- 58%

75.2 151.2
108.1 181.0
25.4
45.1
39.3
74.2
33.1
73.7
620.7 1,087.2
134.4 223.2
59.1 105.3
54.9 129.2
70.3 160.1
42.0
82.0
41.3
63.4
41.0
72.6

2.51%
2.38%
2.36%
2.16%
2.60%
2.24%
2.27%
3.11%
2.69%
2.56%
2.79%
2.60%
2.50%

1.83%
1.05%
1.39%
1.81%
2.32%
1.34%
1.07%
1.25%
2.38%
2.31%
1.61%
0.79%
1.22%

New Jersey
Iowa
Kentucky
Hawaii
Michigan
Massachusetts
FloridaTennessee
New York
MarylandConnecticut
FloridaIllinois

WORLD

4.48

2.48

- 45%

4,068.1 6,403.7

1.94%

1.07%

South Carolina

A total fertility rate (TFR) of 2.1 children per woman is generally required for population replacement. In the absence ofimmigration, emigration, or a radical change in life expectancy, a TFR of 2.1 would lead to a stable population.

A

Source: National population information is from the United Nations Population Division World Population Prospects: The
2002 Revision at: <http://esa.un.org/unpp>. State population density is from United States Bureau of the Census. Statistical
Abstract of the United States, 2003 Edition. Table 19, “State Resident Population—Components of Change: 2000 to 2002.”

Table 3 shows that the population of Europe is already declining and that the populations of allcontinents except Africa will be declining by the year 2050. The world population will peak in about theyear 2040 and then will begin to decline.
Table 3 and Figure 3 show that the total fertility rates for Europe and Northern America slipped
under the replacement level of 2.1 for the first time in 1970 and have remained under replacement eversince. Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Oceania are near replacement now, and Africa will
be at replacement in about 35 years. Total fertility rates worldwide will shortly (within 10 years) be at
replacement levels. The population growth rate of the world will remain positive for about three decades
afterward due to longer life spans and lower infant mortality rates.
It is interesting to note that continental population density has no statistical correlation todegree of prosperity. The most densely-populated region on earth is still Western Europe, with 167
persons per square kilometer. By comparison, South America has 21 persons per square kilometer andAfrica has 29 persons per square kilometer. In summary, 59 of the world’s nations, comprising 44
percent of its total population, are currently not replacing their populations.26

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Table 3
Regional and World Population Growth Rates and Total Fertility Rates
Annual Population Growth Rates

1950-1955
1955-1960
1960-1965
1965-1970
1970-1975
1975-1980
1980-1985
1985-1990
1990-1995
1995-2000
2000-2005
2005-20102010-2015
2015-2020
2020-2025
2025-2030
2030-2035
2035-2040
2040-2045
2045-2050

AfricaAsia

EuropeLatin
Americaand theNorthern
Caribbean America

2.19%
2.34%
2.46%
2.60%
2.66%
2.81%
2.86%
2.78%
2.56%
2.35%
2.04%
1.79%
1.64%
1.52%
1.37%
1.22%
1.06%
0.90%
0.75%
0.61%

1.95%
1.97%
2.20%
2.41%
2.24%
1.87%
1.85%
1.85%
1.59%
1.41%
1.08%
0.86%
0.70%
0.56%
0.39%
0.20%
0.02%
-0.13%-0.27%-0.41%

0.99%
0.99%
0.96%
0.68%
0.59%
0.49%
0.39%
0.44%
0.16%
0.02%
-0.14%-0.24%-0.31%-0.37%-0.44%-0.52%-0.62%-0.72%-0.82%-0.90%

2.65%
2.69%
2.75%
2.57%
2.45%
2.32%
2.10%
1.90%
1.72%
1.56%
1.22%
0.94%
0.75%
0.62%
0.45%
0.27%
0.09%
-0.08%-0.24%-0.40%

1.71%
1.77%
1.46%
1.10%
0.97%
1.01%
1.02%
1.02%
1.09%
1.07%
0.93%
0.78%
0.67%
0.60%
0.52%
0.40%
0.26%
0.13%
0.03%
-0.06%

Oceania

World

2.15%
2.16%
2.11%
1.93%
2.07%
1.14%
1.56%
1.57%
1.61%
1.41%
1.15%
0.92%
0.78%
0.69%
0.61%
0.49%
0.32%
0.17%
0.04%
-0.06%

1.80%
1.84%
1.97%
2.04%
1.94%
1.73%
1.71%
1.72%
1.50%
1.35%
1.07%
0.87%
0.74%
0.62%
0.48%
0.33%
0.17%
0.03%
-0.10%-0.22%

Total Fertility Rates (Children per Woman)

1950-1955
1955-1960
1960-1965
1965-1970
1970-1975
1975-1980
1980-1985
1985-1990
1990-1995
1995-2000
2000-2005
2005-20102010-2015
2015-2020
2020-2025
2025-2030
2030-2035
2035-2040
2040-2045
2045-2050

AfricaAsia

EuropeLatin
Americaand theNorthern
Caribbean America

6.74
6.80
6.86
6.80
6.71
6.59
6.43
6.08
5.63
5.22
4.66
4.14
3.69
3.34
3.03
2.75
2.50
2.27
2.08
1.92

5.89
5.63
5.63
5.68
5.06
4.17
3.66
3.40
2.98
2.72
2.31
2.01
1.82
1.72
1.64
1.57
1.51
1.46
1.44
1.42

2.66
2.66
2.58
2.36
2.16
1.97
1.88
1.83
1.58
1.42
1.30
1.22
1.21
1.21
1.23
1.28
1.32
1.34
1.34
1.34

5.89
5.93
5.97
5.55
5.03
4.48
3.90
3.39
3.01
2.72
2.28
1.94
1.75
1.65
1.57
1.49
1.45
1.41
1.38
1.36

3.47
3.72
3.34
2.54
2.01
1.78
1.81
1.89
2.02
2.01
1.95
1.80
1.69
1.62
1.61
1.57
1.52
1.48
1.42
1.35

Oceania

World

3.90
4.12
4.01
3.59
3.25
2.82
2.62
2.56
2.55
2.45
2.23
1.99
1.85
1.78
1.71
1.64
1.57
1.51
1.45
1.41

5.02
4.95
4.97
4.91
4.48
3.90
3.57
3.37
3.03
2.83
2.48
2.22
2.05
1.95
1.87
1.78
1.71
1.64
1.59
1.54

Reference: World Population Prospects Population Database of the Population Division of the Department of Economic
and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision and World Urbanization
Prospects: The 2001 Revision at: <http://esa.un.org/unpp>.

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Figure 3
Population Bust
Fertility Rates Dropping Below Replacement Levels

Human Life International u www.hli.org

Source: Population Database of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the
U.N. Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision. <http://
esa.un.org/unpp>.

To See the Future of the World, Look to Europe. For the first time since the Black Death ravaged
the European population in 1347-1351, an entire continent is experiencing a population collapse due tonatural causes:• The total fertility rate (TFR) of a developed nation or region must be 2.1 children per woman in••••order to sustain the population at a static level. The weighted TFR of Europe’s 47 nations hasplunged from an already-low 2.6 in 1965 to 1.3 in 2004, far below replacement.
There are currently 18 countries in the world whose population is actually declining. Fifteen ofthese nations are in Europe.
Even with massive immigration, the European population has already peaked at about 728
million in 1997.
Europe is now losing 1.6 million people per year. It will lose almost one-fourth of its populationin the next 45 years, declining to 565 million by 2050.
By the year 2050, the average European will be 52 years old. By contrast, the average African
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• The European support ratio (workers to retirees) is 5:1 now, but will be only 2:1 in 2050. By••

comparison, Africa’s support ratio is 17:1 now, and will be 8:1 in 2050. This will lead inevitably
to a much higher retirement age, less healthcare for more money, and a massive push foreuthanasia.
The population of Western Europe will continue to collapse unless there is massive immigrationfrom Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Islamic nations, which will itself lead to agalaxy of further problems. One of the most serious of these will be a heightened level ofsocial conflict between observant Muslims, who integrate poorly into secular societies, and otherreligious and cultural groups.
The Russian Federation peaked in population in 1990 at 148 million and is now losing 1 million
people annually. A baby boy born today in the Russian Federation can expect to live less than 60
years—the same as a baby boy born in Guyana or North Korea.27

In every developed region or nation with a declining population, everyone feels the day-to-day
economic impacts, and the situation will only get worse as these countries lose more and more people
every year, as is evidenced by:• The January 2004 International Pension Readiness Report, which was prepared by the World•

Economic Forum and Watson Wyatt Worldwide. This Report predicts that the European Union,
which had 208.7 million in its labor force in 2000, will see this number decline to 151.2 million
by 2050. During the same time period, the number of persons aged 60 or more in the EU will
increase from 82.1 million to 125.1 million. This means that the worker to retiree ratio will
drop from 2.55:1 in 2000 to 1.20:1 in 2050. In 2050, the average European will be 52 years old,and nearly one-third of all Europeans will be aged 65 or older.28 Naturally, pension costs will
skyrocket and a shrinking workforce will lead to less productivity. Yet Europe seems unwillingto do anything to stop its slide into continental senility. It is truly becoming the new “DarkContinent”: Old, listless, lacking hope.
In aging nations, although there will be some savings due to a smaller young population, public
spending for an older person (aged 65 or more) averages three times greater than public spending
for a younger person (aged 14 or under). One way to meet these costs would be to raise taxes on
workers in developed nations from 25 percent of their wages to 40 percent, a crushing burden.
The only other alternative is to pile up mountains of debt, which will destabilize the world
economy. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
without massive benefit cuts or tax increases, Japan will have to increase its public debt levels
from the current 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) to more than 100 percent by 2050.
In Europe, public debt levels would have to rise from about 55 percent of GDP now to nearly
110 percent in 2050.29

There is Only One Solution to the Impending Depopulation Crisis. Fortunately, some nations andregions have begun to wake up to the multiple grave threats posed by a rapidly declining population.
They have offered bounties and other benefits to couples having children, but their efforts are sporadic
and scattered, and have had little effect, as the following indicates:• In 1986, France initiated the La France a besoin des enfants! [France needs babies!] campaign,accompanied by posters of a wide-eyed, chubby baby.30 The campaign failed to make the slightest
difference in the nation’s declining total fertility rate, which fell from 1.8 children per woman in1985 to 1.7 currently, well below replacement.

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• In 1994, the German State of Brandenburg offered to pay its citizens $650 to have a child, but•there was not even the slightest blip in the birth rate. This is not surprising when one considers
that the people had been told for decades that raising a child would cost hundreds of thousandsof dollars. Wolfgang Jahmer, director of a social welfare program in Schwerin, Germany, said,“We have some fears that the tree of life may be falling.”31
Singapore has recognized the threat that a declining population would cause its vibrant economy
and has begun to offer cash bonuses of up to U.S. $5,200 to couples who have more than one
child. This policy seems to have little effect, as Singapore’s population is projected to decline by
15 to 20 percent by the year 2050.32

The above examples show that mere monetary or economic incentives are superficial in natureand cannot even begin to accomplish the goal of increased childbearing; only ingrained social stimuli will
eventually convince people to have more children.
The most efficient way to accomplish this objective is to vigorously pursue a campaign to strengthen
and promote stable families and to promote authentic economic development.
The first step in this process, of course, is to renounce NSSM-200 and other anti-natalist documents sothat the United States does not send a mixed message to the world.

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ATROCITIES COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF POPULATIONCONTROL
Introduction. Many population programs are a recipe for disastrous violations of paramount humanrights. The basic problem is an imbalance of power—well-funded Western organizations with thelatest equipment and technology literally invading the villages and homes of poor-uneducated country
people.
One of the primary engines of coercive practices are incentives and disincentives, which becomeirresistible to regional and local healthcare workers, and which lead to quotas being set by higher
national authorities, lending further impetus to practices that grossly violate human rights. In a
September 1988 World Bank report titled Costs, Payments, and Incentives in Family-Planning Programs,
the Bank described the use of “incentives” and “disincentives” on fertility choices: “First, payments are
made to: (a) acceptors, (b) providers, and (c) recruiters, all focused on the act of accepting a method(usually sterilization). These payments may be in cash or in kind and are usually given immediately upon
acceptance.”
The report describes “disincentives” as “oriented directly to fewer births, as distinct frominducements to practice contraception. Some involve benefits (or penalties) . . . salary level, tax
exemptions, maternity leaves, eligibility for preferred housing, schools, and so forth.”33
Thus, poor country people are subjected to irresistible pressure to be sterilized in order to obtainfood money or survive a temporary financial crisis. In many cases, the women being sterilized did notknow that the effects of the procedure were permanent—or even that the procedure was contraceptive
in its intent and effect.34
More than 20 nations have promoted forced-abortion and forced-sterilization programs ofvarying magnitude. Even the United States just ended its coercive eugenical policies in 1973, after
they were endorsed by the Supreme Court’s 1927 Buck v. Bell decision, in which Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes famously wrote that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.”35
Many volumes have been written about these coercive programs, and there is not enough room
to even summarize them in this short document. It is instructive, however, to examine three instancesin which U.S. population control funds have been used to finance organizations—primarily USAID and
UNFPA—that have used this money to violate women’s rights on a vast scale.
Peru. During the years 1995 to 1997, nearly a quarter of a million Peruvian women were sterilized
as part of a program to fulfill then-president Alberto Fujimori’s family planning goals. Although thiscampaign was called the “Voluntary Surgical Contraception Campaign,” many of these procedures wereanything but voluntary. Human rights abuses reported by human rights groups include the following:• Some poor women were bribed to accept sterilization by being offered free food. Other women•whose underweight children were on government food programs were threatened with thewithholding of this food if they refused to be sterilized. Gregoria Chuquihuancas of Tocache,where a vigorous sterilization campaign was carried out, said, “They always look for the poorest
women, especially those who don’t understand Spanish [in some parts of Peru, people only speak
their native Kechua]. They make them put their fingerprint on a sterilization paper they don’t
understand because they can’t read. If the women refuse, they threaten to cut off the food andmilk programs.”36
Some women were sterilized without their consent during other medical procedures, and somewere even kidnapped and forcibly sterilized.

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• Human rights workers documented at least six deaths among women who were involuntarily•

sterilized, as well as hundreds of injuries.37 The women who suffered injuries were told that they
had to pay for their own surgery and other care needed to recover.
Health workers commonly ridiculed rural women, calling them “animals,” “beasts,” “stupid,” andother epithets for having more than the approved number of children.

Internal government documents spoke of doctors who would receive “credits” for meetingsterilization quotas. These credits, in fact, would often be used to determine whether or not a doctor
would continue in public employment. Tamayo León, a lawyer with the Flora Tristán Center for
Peruvian Women (a feminist organization), said that health workers received cash bonuses for every
woman they brought in for sterilization.
The United States Agency for International Development provided Peru with training forvasectomies and tubal ligations.38
USAID has also poured more money into Peru than into any other Latin American nation. The
agency funded 69 population control projects in Peru or in regions including Peru during the time period
1962 to 1998. In the early stages of its programs, USAID pressured the government of Peru to produce
measurable population growth rate reductions. USAID provided Peru with training for tubal ligationsand vasectomies. From the 1970s to the 1990s, USAID provided tens of millions of dollars for theestablishment of “family planning” centers in Peru. A 1995 project description for a “commercial familyplanning” exercise speaks of “behavior change” as its long-term objective.39
USAID even paid for nationwide television attack ads against those prominent government
officials who opposed its population control programs. One of those condemned and ridiculed was Peru’s
Minister of Health, Dr. Fernando Carbone, who was relegated to a “Garbage Room” for speaking out
against USAID-UNFPA population policies in his nation.40
In June 2002, the Peruvian Congress published its Anticoncepción Quirúrgica Voluntaria Report,
confirming that the Fujimori government implemented the nationwide sterilization campaign withsupport and funding from both USAID and the United Nations Population Fund, the latter actuallyleading the campaign.41
China. For many years, the United States government has funded the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA, see Table 4). One of the main targets of UNFPA money is the People’s Republic of China(PRC) and its widely-criticized forced-abortion and family planning program.
Although spokesmen for the organization have stridently disavowed responsibility for China’s
coercive programs, UNFPA’s plan was laid out in many of its internal memos, including a January 15,
1985, briefing note titled The United Nations Fund for Population Activities and China.42 According to thebriefing, UNFPA:• Contributed more than $100 million to China’s population control programs;• Bought and custom-designed a $12 million IBM computer complex specifically to monitor the•••

population program;
Provided the technical expertise and personnel that trained thousands of Chinese population
control officials;
Presented China with the United Nation’s award for the “most outstanding population control
program;” andStated that the coercive programs should cease because they were causing the Chinese “negative
image problems”—not because the programs were inhuman and genocidal in nature.

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When the horrors of the Chinese population control program were finally laid bare, U.S. funding
to UNFPA was cut off. Meanwhile, the United Nations continued to deny there was even a problem,
going on record as saying, “Although some have accused the family planning programme of employing
coercive methods, the [Chinese] Government has never sanctioned the use of coercion.”43
Such denials are hardly credible in light of Chinese national and provincial laws demonstrating
the coercive nature of the one-child policy, including:• Central Committee Directive Number 7 of 1983, which reads: “All state officials, workers and
•

•

•
•
•

employees, and urban residents, except for special cases which must be approved, may have only
one child per couple.”
Shanxi Province Communist Party Chief Zhang Boxing issued a directive on July 10, 1983, as
follows: “Those women who have already given birth to one child must be fitted with IUDs,
couples who already have two children must undergo sterilization of either the husband or thewife, and women pregnant outside the Plan must abort as soon as possible.”45
In April of 1992, the Chinese National People’s Congress adopted Article 42 of a law that states:“When a wife terminates gestation as required by the family planning programme, her husband
may not apply for a divorce within six months after the operation.” (Note, we are not advocating
divorce, but this quote shows the coercive nature of the Chinese population control program).
In April 1988, Fujian Province adopted birth control regulations which stated, “Persons notmeeting legal age requirements shall be prohibited from marrying or bearing children. . . .
Unplanned births shall be prohibited.”
In April 1990, Henan Province adopted “Rules and Regulations on Family Planning,” whichstates in Article 11, “Birth of the second child must be strictly controlled, and birth of the thirdchild must be prohibited.”46
Finally, on December 29, 2001, the 25th session of the Standing Committee of the National
People’s Congress formally approved China’s first law on population control and family planning,whose purpose is to further advance its one-child policy. Li Peng, chairman of the legislature,said the law would “stabilize” China’s “family planning” policy.47

On December 10, 1987, the United States House of Representatives adopted a resolution
sponsored by Congressman Chris Smith [R-N.J.] that “strongly condemns the continued violations ofhuman rights by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, including the one-child-per-family
policy adopted in 1979 that relies on coercion, economic penalties, and forced abortions, often late inpregnancy. . . .”The UNFPA operates “family planning” programs in 32 counties, or county-level municipalities,
throughout China. In fact, its offices are often co-located with local Family Planning Offices. Therefore,
there is no possible way that UNFPA cannot know about the draconian forced-abortion program in
China. Yet it claims that Chinese “women are free to voluntarily select the timing and spacing of theirpregnancies”; that there are no family planning targets or quotas; that abortion is not promoted in China
as a method of family planning; and, finally, that coercion does not exist.48
In 1986, Rafael Salas, UNFPA’s then-executive director, said, “Each country has its view of whatis free, a free choice. If you refer to the case of China, I am very sure that the Chinese themselves will
say that within their cultural norms, they are not at all coercive. Maybe from Western standards, thesemight not be totally acceptable, but then each country must determine that for themselves.”49
In 1989, UNFPA’s then-executive director Nafis Sadik claimed on CBS’s Nightwatch television
program that the UNFPA “does not support abortion programs anywhere in the world,” and is “notsupporting coercion in any form.” She also continued to insist that China’s population control policies

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are “purely voluntary.”50
Despite a mountain of evidence attesting to China’s crimes against human rights, Sadik said,“China has every reason to feel proud of and pleased with its remarkable achievements made in its familyplanning policy and control of its population growth over the past 10 years. Now the country could offer
its experiences and special experts to help other countries.”51
Uganda. An entirely different, but perhaps even more pernicious, type of atrocity occurs whenpopulation controllers are so ideologically blinded that they will forcibly undermine effective indigenous
programs for AIDS and population control by diverting funds to programs that have been provenineffective, all for ideological reasons.
Uganda became the first African country to roll back its AIDS rate—from 21 percent in 1991 to about
six percent today, a 70 percent decrease.
The nation accomplished this amazing feat with the “ABC Model” devised by President Yoweri
Museveni—Abstain, Be faithful, and, for high-risk populations such as prostitutes, use Condoms. Mostof the Ugandan population, however, refused the use of condoms, so the social values of the nation
effectively precluded their use. This was quite fortunate, in light of the fact that 1 of 11 condoms breaks
or fails during use, according to the authoritative guide Contraceptive Technology.52
After studying and recognizing the effectiveness of Uganda’s “ABC Model,” President George
W. Bush adopted it for his Emergency Plan for AIDS, a $15 billion, 5-year program to fight the diseasein 15 countries. In January of this year, Congress allocated the first $2.4 billion to this plan. Old habits,
old models, and old ways of thinking, however, die hard.
Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, gave us an excellent example ofthis kind of support for unworkable solutions when he said, “The United States and others have started
questioning the efficacy of condoms. To condemn women by indifference to science and by failure toprovide tools for their own protection may not meet the technical definition of crimes against humanity
but it is certainly gross negligence toward humanity.”53
The USAID office in Kampala, Uganda, is not funding ABC Model organizations.
Instead, it is distributing Uganda’s share of ABC Model funds to organizations known to be inherently
hostile to abstinence programs and favorable to massive condom distribution schemes that have been
proven completely ineffective in the African context, and in any other context, for that matter.
These groups include contraceptive supplier Population Services International (which sells its
Protector brand of condom) and CARE International. USAID also provides all of the funding for the
Deliver Project in Uganda, which continues to rely on an old-school plan consisting entirely of condom
and contraceptive distribution.54
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and USAID experts also helped write Uganda’s National
Condom Policy and Strategy in 2003. This detailed plan proposes several different, overlapping low-cost
condom supply lines to every one of Uganda’s 56 districts.
Dr. Edward Green, a senior research scientist for the Harvard University School of Public
Health, visited Uganda in August 2004. He has been fighting AIDS in Africa since the first cases weredetected there 20 years ago. Professor Green had been a condom promoter himself, but his thinking
was changed by the demonstrated effectiveness of the ABC Model, which, in practice, became the“ABbutnoC” Model. He now sees this program in Uganda being deliberately undermined by ineffective
programs promoted by U.S.-funded organizations.

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Professor Green says, “We’re going to reach a point where infection rates will start going up
again and then experts will say ABC never worked, that there was probably something wrong with thedata all along. . . . The unique indigenous program that Uganda developed is being gradually destroyed.
Uganda is being pushed more towards condoms and pills.”55

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SQUANDERED BILLIONSTable 4 shows that the United States alone has spent $17.3 billion on controlling the populations ofdeveloping nations since 1965.
Table 4
United States Population Control Expenditures, 1965-2004(Constant 2004 $ Millions)A

FiscalYear
1965-7
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004

USAID

UNFPAB

Total

Inflation
Factor(2004=1)C

10.5
34.3
42.9
70.6
81.9
94.3
116.6
94.4
90.0
115.5
114.9
138.5
161.4
163.0
173.4
204.0
209.3
226.2
281.7
295.5
286.6
248.1
257.6
287.1
352.3
325.6
447.8
480.2
541.6
432.0
385.0
385.0
385.0
372.5
425.0
446.5
446.5
429.5

0.0
0.5
2.5
4.0
14.0
29.0
9.0
18.0
20.0
20.0
29.4
28.0
30.0
32.0
35.0
33.8
33.8
38.0
36.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
14.5
40.0
35.0
22.8
25.0
20.0
0.0
21.5
21.5
0.0
0.0
34.0

10.5
34.8
45.4
74.6
95.9
123.3
125.6
112.4
110.0
135.5
144.3
166.5
191.4
195.0
208.4
237.8
243.1
264.2
317.7
295.5
286.6
248.1
257.6
287.1
352.3
325.6
462.3
520.2
576.6
454.8
410.0
405.0
385.0
394.0
446.5
446.5
446.5
463.5

5.846
5.443
5.160
4.881
4.677
4.531
4.266
3.841
3.520
3.329
3.125
2.905
2.609
2.299
2.084
1.963
1.902
1.823
1.760
1.728
1.667
1.601
1.527
1.449
1.391
1.350
1.311
1.278
1.243
1.207
1.180
1.162
1.137
1.100
1.069
1.053
1.029
1.000

U.S. Population Control Expenditures

Total United States Population
Control Expenditures, 1965-2004

2004
DollarsD
61.38
189.42234.26364.12448.52558.67535.81431.73387.20451.08450.94483.68499.36448.31434.31466.80462.38481.64559.15510.62477.76397.21
393.36416.01490.05439.56606.08664.82716.71548.94483.80470.61437.75433.40477.31
470.16459.45463.5017,305.85

The figures for annual United States bilateral population control expenditures for USAID and voluntary contributions
to UNFPA were downloaded from the website of Population Action at: <http://www.populationaction.org/resources/
data_and_graphs/USPopulationAssistance.htm#FY2004> on September 15, 2004. Other population control funding by
the United States is not included in this Table.

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During the years 1968 to 1992 inclusive, the U.S. contribution to UNFPA was channeled through USAID, and is separated
out in this Table.
C
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator found at: <http://www.bls.gov/cpi/> is used to update all
prices to 2004 levels.
D
The 2004 figure is an estimate that depends upon the final disposition of the FY2002 United States voluntary contribution
to UNFPA. In 2002 and 2003, the U.S. contribution to UNFPA was zeroed out under the Kemp-Kasten Amendment.
B

If all of this money had instead been poured into authentic economic development, the people
would naturally have smaller families for a number of reasons.56 The people would also be healthier andwould enjoy a much higher standard of living. Is this not a more humane and human way of dealing
with a perceived overpopulation problem?
What could have been done with $17.3 billion if it had been allocated towards authentic economic
development?
In the developing nations of Africa and Asia, we could have accomplished all of the following:• Built water treatment facilities for 20,000 towns and villages with an average population of 1,000
•
•

•
•
•

each, providing all of the people with the most basic requirement for good health: clean drinking
water [cost: About $2.4 billion]; andBrought electricity to these 20,000 villages, thereby increasing production towards self-sufficiency
and freeing 5 million children to go to school [$2.7 billion]; andBuilt 100,000 miles of paved or improved roads and bridges connecting these 20,000 villages
to the national road system, allowing them to ship their goods to market and have access to theoutside world. This would in turn greatly increase the standard of living of the villages [$2.5billion]; andBuilt and staffed enough modern schools to properly educate the 5 million children from thesevillages, who would otherwise receive little or no education and would therefore fall into lives ofpoverty and despair [$4.5 billion]; andBuilt 20,000 basic healthcare clinics in these villages, which could care for the health of thepeople, fully staff them, and cut maternal and infant mortality in those villages in half [$3.5
billion]; andBuilt grain storage facilities for these 20,000 villages, so their rice and other harvests would not
be partly or mostly consumed by insects and rodents [$1.7 billion].57

These measures would have dramatically improved the standard of living of 20 million of thepoorest people of the developing world.
Many developing countries act to reduce births because of pressure from United Nations
agencies such as the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) or the World Bank, well-funded non-governmentalorganizations such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and the leaders in
population control—The United States, Canada, Germany, Denmark, France, Australia and Japan.
These entities have spent billions of dollars to control the populations of developing countries, whilebasic healthcare priorities such as clean drinking water remain underfunded. Many doctors complainthat their hospitals and clinics lack the most basic and inexpensive items necessary to arrest disease,such as bandages, needles, antiseptics and antibiotics, while stocking vast varieties and amounts ofcontraceptives. This lopsided emphasis on population control is felt in many other areas. In Haiti, forinstance, 88 percent of women have access to a full range of contraceptives, while only 22 percent haveaccess to clean drinking water.58

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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Conclusions
There is growing awareness that the world “population explosion” is over or, indeed, that it never reallymaterialized. We can expect to see at most a world population of about 7.5 billion, only about 17 percent
greater than the current 6.4 billion. Following this peak in about 35 years—barely a generation from
now—the world population will begin to decline, and the loss of population will continue to accelerate,
as is now happening in Europe.
Regional population growth rates are decelerating so fast that they are already causing severe
economic and social problems in Europe, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Many developing nations are now aging even more rapidly than the developed world, which foretells ofeven more severe problems for their relatively undeveloped economies.
Over the past 40 years, there was much disagreement over whether or not population control programs
were necessary for those nations with the most rapidly growing populations. There can be no
disagreement now, however, except among those organizations whose incomes depend upon it. The
time for population control has come and gone. It is now necessary to plan ahead. We have successfully
averted a “population explosion,” and now we must work just as hard to avoid a “population implosion.”
The first step in such a massive change in policy is, of course, to change our vision and ourvalues. In order to do this, we must repudiate old ways of thinking and outmoded ways of accomplishing
our objectives in order to avoid conflicts and confusion.

Recommendations(1) In order to pave the way for a significant change in national population policy, we recommendthat the Bush Administration explicitly repudiate not only NSSM-200, but the principles it
stands for.
(2) We recommend changing national population policy to reflect a paramount concern for thechildren and the families of developing nations. This can best be done by stressing authentic
economic development. To this end, we recommend that all population control funds be
immediately redirected towards providing the basic physical needs of the people of developing
nations.
(3) We recommend that the Bush Administration more closely monitor and supervise USAID andother organizations funded by the USA in order to ensure that old, ineffective and unhealthy
population control policies—such as massive condom distribution programs—cease at once.
(4) The world population situation has dramatically changed over the past 30 years, but UnitedStates population policy has not. It has remained static and mired in the past. We recommendthat the Bush Administration direct the National Security Council to study the situation, taking
into account updated demographic information.

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Websites• United States Population Information Network at: <http://esa.un.org/unpp>. This comprehensive

resource provides 28 demographic indicators for the historical (1950-2000) and projected(2005-2050) periods for every nation in the world, including birth and death rates, total fertility
rates, infant mortality and data on age, sex and migration.
• The Africa 2000 Media Group at: <http://www.africa2000.com> provides detailed studies on
United States and other population control programs in Africa, to include their racist, propaganda,
and eugenical aspects.
Books and Reports• Julian L. Simon. The Ultimate Resource 2 [Princeton University Press, 1996].
• United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population
to 2300 [New York: United Nations, 2004].
• Center for Reproductive Rights. Silence and Complicity: Violence Against Women in Peruvian Public
Health Facilities [1999, 108 pages]. This report documents some of the terrible violations of
women’s rights—from rape to forced abortion and sterilization—that took place in Peru’s familyplanning clinics from 1996 to 1998. The entire report is available in PDF format on the website of
the CRR at: <http://www.reproductiverights.org/pub_bo_silence.html#online>.
Articles• Philip Longman. “The Global Baby Bust.” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004 [Volume 83, Number3], pages 64 to 79.
• Michael Meyer, et. al. “Birth Dearth.” Newsweek Magazine cover story, September 27, 2004.
• Priya Abraham. “Hooked on Failure.” World Magazine, November 6, 2004, pages 26 to 28. Article
content: In Africa’s fight against AIDS, the United States continues to support family-planninggroups that stifle the White House abstinence and fidelity message.

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ENDNOTES
For the story of Maria Mamerita Mestanza Chavez, who died in April 1998 after being subjected to a coercive sterilization, seeCenter for Reproductive Rights. “Peru Acknowledges Human Rights Violations in Forced Sterilization Case that Ended in Death.”
Press release dated November 17, 2002. For the story of Magna Morales, who died 10 days after her sterilization and who also
accepted gifts of food and clothing as payment for sterilization, see Calvin Sims. “Using Gifts as Bait, Peru Sterilizes Women.” The
New York Times, February 15, 1998. For the story of Juana Gutierrez Chero, who died in June 1997 after being sterilized without
her knowledge or consent, see Tim Johnson. “Sterilization Debate in Peru: Are Some Women Coerced?” Miami Herald, January
11, 1998. For the stories of Reynalda Betalleluz of Huamanga, Josefina Vasquez Rivera of Paimas, and Celia Ramos Durand of
La Legua, who all died after sterilizations, see “Forced Sterilization Investigation of U.S. Agency for International Development.”
From the website of Africa 2000 at: < http://www.africa2000.com/IMPACT/perucase.html>. Undated.
2 “
The U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries[see National Commission on Materials Policy, Towards a National Materials Policy: Basic Data and Issues, April 1972]. That factgives the U.S. enhanced interest in the political, economic, and social stability of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening of
population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant
to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States. . . . The location of known reserves of higher-gradeores of most minerals favors increasing dependence of all industrialized regions on imports from less developed countries. The
real problems of mineral supplies lie, not in basic physical sufficiency, but in the politico-economic issues of access, terms for
exploration and exploitation, and division of the benefits among producers, consumers, and host country governments” [Thisquotation is from NSSM-200, Chapter III—Minerals and Fuel].
3 “Whether through government action, labor conflicts, sabotage, or civil disturbance, the smooth flow of needed materials will
be jeopardized. Although population pressure is obviously not the only factor involved, these types of frustrations are muchless likely under conditions of slow or zero population growth” [This quotation is from NSSM-200, Chapter III—Minerals andFuel].
4 “Populations with a high proportion of growth. The young people, who are in much higher proportions in many LDCs, are likely
to be more volatile, unstable, prone to extremes, alienation and violence than an older population. These young people can more
readily be persuaded to attack the legal institutions of the government or real property of the ‘establishment,’ ‘imperialists,’
multinational corporations, or other—often foreign—influences blamed for their troubles” [This quotation is from NSSM-200,
Chapter V, “Implications of Population Pressures for National Security”].
5 “
Development of a worldwide political and popular commitment to population stabilization is fundamental to any effective
strategy. This requires the support and commitment of key LDC leaders. This will only take place if they clearly see the negative
impact of unrestricted population growth and believe it is possible to deal with this question through governmental action.
The U.S. should encourage LDC leaders to take the lead in advancing family planning and population stabilization both within
multilateral organizations and through bilateral contacts with other LDCs. This will require that the President and the Secretaryof State treat the subject of population growth control as a matter of paramount importance and address it specifically in theirregular contacts with leaders of other governments, particularly LDCs” [This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Executive
Summary, Paragraph 30].
6 “Concentration on key countries. Assistance for population moderation should give primary emphasis to the largest and fastest
growing developing countries where there is special U.S. political and strategic interest. Those countries are: India, Bangladesh,Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Colombia. Together, theyaccount for 47 percent of the world’s current population increase . . . the U.S. will look to the multilateral agencies, especially the
U.N. Fund for Population Activities which already has projects in over 80 countries to increase population assistance on a broader
basis with increased U.S. contributions. This is desirable in terms of U.S. interests and necessary in political terms in the United
Nations. But progress, nevertheless, must be made in the key 13 and our limited resources should give major emphasis to them”[This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Executive Summary, Paragraph 30].
7
Ibid.
8 “
No country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion. . . . Restriction of research on abortifacient drugs
and devices would: a. Possibly eliminate further development of the IUD” [This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Part Two:
Policy Recommendations. Abortion. 1. Worldwide Abortion Practices].
9 “
Pay women in the LDCs to have abortions as a method of family planning. . . . Similarly, there have been some controversial,
but remarkably successful, experiments in India in which financial incentives, along with other motivational devices, were used to
get large numbers of men to accept vasectomies” [This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Part Two: Policy Recommendations.
Abortion. 2. U.S. Legislation and Policies Relative to Abortion. a. A.I.D. Program].
10 “[Section 6] Concentration on Education and Indoctrination of The Rising Generation of Children Regarding the Desirability of
Smaller Family Size . . . without diminishing in any way the effort to reach these adults, the obvious increased focus of attention
should be to change the attitudes of the next generation, those who are now in elementary school or younger. If this could bedone, it would indeed be possible to attain a level of fertility approaching replacement in 20 years and actually reaching it in 30”[This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Part Two: Policy Recommendations. Recommendation #6: Concentration on Education
and Indoctrination of the Rising Generation of Children Regarding the Desirability of Smaller Family Size].
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It is clear that the availability of contraceptive services and information, important as that is, is not the only element required
to address the population problems of the LDCs. Substantial evidence shows that many families in LDCs (especially the poor)
consciously prefer to have numerous children for a variety of economic and social reasons. For example, small children can makeeconomic contributions on family farms, children can be important sources of support for old parents where no alternative formof social security exists, and children may be a source of status for women who have few alternatives in male-dominated societies.
. . . It is also now widely believed that something more than family planning services will be needed to motivate other couples
to want smaller families and all couples to want replacement levels essential to the progress and growth of their countries. . . .
The following areas appear to contain significant promise in effecting fertility declines, and are discussed in subsequent sections. . . concentrating on the education and indoctrination of the rising generation of children regarding the desirability of smallerfamily size.” [This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Part Two: Policy Recommendations. E. Creating Conditions Conducive to
Fertility Decline].
12 “
There is an alternate view which holds that a growing number of experts believe that the population situation is already more
serious and less amenable to solution through voluntary measures than is generally accepted. It holds that, to prevent evenmore widespread food shortage and other demographic catastrophes than are generally anticipated, even stronger measures
are required and some fundamental, very difficult moral issues need to be addressed. These include, for example, our own
consumption patterns, mandatory programs, tight control of our food resources. In view of the seriousness of these issues,
explicit consideration of them should begin in the Executive Branch, the Congress and the U.N. soon (see the end of Section I
for this viewpoint). . . . The conclusion of this view is that mandatory programs may be needed and that we should be considering
these possibilities now” [This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Executive Summary, Paragraph 37].
13 “
On what basis should such food resources then be provided? Would food be considered an instrument of national power? Will
we be forced to make choices as to whom we can reasonably assist, and if so, should population efforts be a criterion for suchassistance?” [This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Part Two: Policy Recommendations/An Alternative View].
14 “There is also the danger that some LDC leaders will see developed country pressures for family planning as a form of economic or
racial imperialism; this could well create a serious backlash. . . . It is vital that the effort to develop and strengthen a commitment
on the part of the LDC leaders not be seen by them as an industrialized country policy to keep their strength down or to reserve
resources for use by the ‘rich’ countries. Development of such a perception could create a serious backlash adverse to the causeof population stability. . . . The U.S. can help to minimize charges of an imperialist motivation behind its support of population
activities by repeatedly asserting that such support derives from a concern with:
11 “(a) The right of the individual couple to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of children and to haveinformation, education, and means to do so; and(b) The fundamental social and economic development of poor countries in which rapid population growth is both a contributing
cause and a consequence of widespread poverty.
The great necessity is to convince the masses of the population that it is to their individual and national interest to have, on the
average, only three and then only two children. There is little likelihood that this result can be accomplished very widely against
the background of the cultural heritage of today’s adults, even the young adults, among the masses in most LDCs.
Finally, providing integrated family planning and health services on a broad basis would help the U.S. contend with the ideologicalcharge that the U.S. is more interested in curbing the numbers of LDC people than it is in their future and well-being. Whileit can be argued, and argued effectively, that limitation of numbers may well be one of the most critical factors in enhancing
development potential and improving the chances for well-being, we should recognize that those who argue along ideological lines
have made a great deal of the fact that the U.S. contribution to development programs and health programs has steadily shrunk,
whereas funding for population programs has steadily increased. While many explanations may be brought forward to explainthese trends, the fact is that they have been an ideological liability to the U.S. in its crucial developing relationships with the LDCs”[This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Part Two: Policy Recommendations/IC. Instruments and Modalities for Population
Assistance].
15
Margaret Sanger was the founder of the American Birth Control League (ABCL), which later became the International Planned
Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the largest pro-abortion activist organization on earth, with family planning affiliates (FPAs) inmore than 180 nations. IPPF’s largest FPA is the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), which owns the largest
chain of abortion clinics in the United States, performing more than a quarter million abortions every year [PPFA’s Annual Report,
2002-2003]. “The Coming Crash: The First of a Series of Interviews with R.C. Martens, an Authority Upon the World Food
Situation.” The Birth Control Review, January 1920, pages 5 and 6.
16
Paul Ehrlich’s predictions are described by syndicated columnist George Will. “‘Earth Summit’ Already Loses Luster With
Environmental Pessimists.” The Oregonian, May 31, 1992, page E3. The predictions of Judith Wurtman, G. Harry Stein, Robert
Francoeur, John Catchings, Frederick Davies, Robert Truax, Jerrold S. Maxmen, and Ronald L. Taylor are described in David
Wallechinsky and Amy and Irving Wallace. The Book of Predictions. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
17
Ibid.
18
Ibid.
19
Murray Bookchin. “The Population Myth.” Kick It Over, Spring 1992, pages 8 to 12. Reverend John A. O’Brien. Pastoral Life, July-

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August 1966. Stephen Hawking, during a January 14, 2001 public lecture on “Science in the Future” in Mumbai, India, quoted
in “British Physicist Predicts Design of Improved Human Race.” Cable News Network website at: <http://www.CNN.com>,
January 14, 2001.
20
From a press conference by Werner Fornos, president of the Population Institute. The Washington Post, December 31, 1997, page
A20.
21
Population Institute press release titled “Population Expert Criticizes Millennium Goals’ Shortcomings,” dated November 12,
2004.
22
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). State of the World Population 2004. Available online at: <http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2004/pdf/en_swp04.pdf>.
23
French Social Affairs Minister Jacques Solideau, quoted in “In Defense of Population Growth.” The New Scientist, September 8,
1984.
24
United Nations Population Division database at: <http://esa.un.org/unpp>. As of 2005, the population of the more developed
regions of the world is 1.2 billion, and the population of the less developed regions of the world is 5.2 billion.
25 “Concentration on key countries. Assistance for population moderation should give primary emphasis to the largest and fastest
growing developing countries where there is special U.S. political and strategic interest. Those countries are: India, Bangladesh,Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Colombia. Together, theyaccount for 47 percent of the world’s current population increase. . . . The U.S. will look to the multilateral agencies, especially the
U.N. Fund for Population Activities which already has projects in over 80 countries to increase population assistance on a broader
basis with increased U.S. contributions. This is desirable in terms of U.S. interests and necessary in political terms in the United
Nations. But progress, nevertheless, must be made in the key 13 and our limited resources should give major emphasis to them”[This quotation is taken from NSSM-200, Executive Summary, Paragraph 30].
26
World Population Prospects Population Database of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairsof the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision
at: <http://esa.un.org/unpp>.
27
United Nations Population Division database at: <http://esa.un.org/unpp>. See also Richard Morin. “Case Not Closed.” The
Washington Post, November 14, 2004, page B5.
28
United Nations Population Division database at: <http://esa.un.org/unpp>.
29
Phillip J. Longman. “The World Turns Gray: How Global Aging Will Challenge the World’s Economic Well-Being.” U.S. Newsand World Report, March 1, 1999.
30
France’s situation is described along with Italy’s in Uli Schmetzer. “Italy Rattled by Plunge in Birthrate.” Chicago Tribune,
November 2, 1986.
31
Stephen Kinzer, New York Times News Service. “German State Pays Bounty for Babies.” The Oregonian, November 25, 1994, page
A13.
32 “
Singapore Couples Paid for Babies.” BBC News, August 21, 2000. “Abortions in Singapore Fall to Lowest Level in 30 Years.” The
Star, March 15, 2004. Downloaded from <http://thestaronline.com>.
33
John A. Ross and Stephen L. Isaacs. Costs, Payments and Incentives in Family Planning Programs. Publication #WPS88, Populationand Human Resources Department, the World Bank, September 1988. See also an article by the same authors with the same namein Studies in Family Planning 19:5, 270-283.
34
For more examples of abuses caused by incentives, disincentives and quotas, see The Baobab Press, “Sterilization Programme
Launched,” at: <http://www.africa2000.org/BNDX/bao208.htm>.
35
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), opinion of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
36
For the story of Maria Mamerita Mestanza Chavez, who died in April 1998 after being subjected to a coercive sterilization, seeCenter for Reproductive Rights. “Peru Acknowledges Human Rights Violations in Forced Sterilization Case that Ended in Death.”
Press release dated November 17, 2002. For the story of Magna Morales, who died 10 days after her sterilization and who also
accepted gifts of food and clothing as payment for sterilization, see Calvin Sims. “Using Gifts as Bait, Peru Sterilizes Women.” The
New York Times, February 15, 1998. For the story of Juana Gutierrez Chero, who died in June 1997 after being sterilized without
her knowledge or consent, see Tim Johnson. “Sterilization Debate in Peru: Are Some Women Coerced?” Miami Herald, January
11, 1998. For the stories of Reynalda Betalleluz of Huamanga, Josefina Vasquez Rivera of Paimas, and Celia Ramos Durand of
La Legua, who all died after sterilizations, see “Forced Sterilization Investigation of U.S. Agency for International Development.”
From the website of Africa 2000 at: <http://www.africa2000.com/IMPACT/perucase.html>. Undated.
37
Ibid.
38
Tim Johnson. “Sterilization Debate in Peru: Are Some Women Coerced?” Miami Herald, January 11, 1998.
39
Tim Johnson. “Sterilization Debate in Peru: Are Some Women Coerced?” Miami Herald, January, 11, 1998; Calvin Sims. “Using
Gifts as Bait, Peru Sterilizes Women.” The New York Times, February 15, 1998 and the Washington Post, February 12, 1998;
February 11, 1998 press release titled “US Government Asked to Withdraw Population Control Funds from Peru Following
Reports of Massive Human Rights Abuses,” Alianza Latinoamericana para la Familia; Africa 2000 report titled “The Role of the
U.S. Government in Promoting Government Population Policy in Peru, 1962-1998.”
40 “
USAID Supported Fujimori Sterilization Campaign; Seeks to Cover Up Involvement.” Population Research Institute Review,
September 22, 2003 [Volume 5, Number 27].
41
Final Report Concerning Voluntary Surgical Contraception During the Years 1990-2000, Subcommittee Investigation of Persons

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and Institutions Involved in Voluntary Surgical Contraception, [Anticoncepcion Quirurgica Voluntaria or AQV Report], June 2002.
Steven W. Mosher. “Thinking Clear: Forced Abortions and Infanticide in Communist China.” Human Life Review, Summer 1985,
pages 7 to 34. Page 33, footnote 9.
43
United Nations. Abortion Policies: A Global Review. New York: United Nations, 1992. Volume 1, page 85.
44 “China’s Population Policy is Proving to Be Effective.” Beijing Review (English Edition), November 6-12, 1989, pages 42 to 44.
45 “
The Week.” National Review, May 27, 1988, page 15.
46 “Canada Donates $9 Million to UNFPA—Funders of China’s One-Child Policy.” LifeSite Daily News at: <http://www.lifesite.net>,
May 7, 2001.
47 “
China Passes First Law Codifying 1-Child Policy.” The Washington Times, December 30, 2001.
48 “China: Background Information.” United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) website at: <http://www.unfpa.org/
regions/apd/countries/china.htm>. “UNFPA’s Country Program in China: Providing Quality Care, Protecting Human Rights.”
UNFPA, August 10, 2001. For a summary of UNFPA’s most recent deceptions, see Population Research Institute (PRI) Weekly
Briefing, “UNFPA Supports Coercive Family Planning—Including Forced Abortion—in China (and PRI Has the Evidence toProve It)” [Volume 3, Number 25], October 4, 2001.
49 “
An Uncompromising Position: China, the UNFPA and U.S. Population Policy.” Undated Zero Population Growth Backgrounder.
Interestingly, a July 1969 Department of State telegram reported the support of John D. Rockefeller III and others for theappointment of Rafael Salas of the Philippines as senior officer to co-ordinate and administer the United Nations population
program. The administrator of the United Nations Development Program said that he preferred someone such as Salas who
had the “advantage of color, religion (Catholic) and conviction” [Jean Guilfoyle. “NSSM-200: Blueprint for De-Population.” TheInterim, July 1998].
50 “Forced Abortion, Infanticide Reported in Tibet.” The Wanderer, April 6, 1989, page 2.
51
Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), quoted by China’s official news agency
Xinhua on April, 11, 1991. Also described in “Canada Donates $9 Million to UNFPA—Funders of China’s One-Child Policy.”
LifeSite Daily News, May 7, 2001.
52
Robert A. Hatcher, et. al. Contraceptive Technology (17th Revised Edition). New York: Ardent Media, Inc., 1998, Chapter 16, “MaleCondoms,” Table 16-3, “Prospective Studies of Condom Breakage and Slippage,” pages 330 to 332. The authors tallied the resultsof 15 recent studies involving a total of 25,184 condoms used during heterosexual intercourse and found that 5.36 percent of allof the condoms broke and 3.67 percent of them partially or completely slipped off, for a total of 9.13 percent.
53
Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM). “Meeting in London Discusses How to Make Abortion an International
Right.” Friday FAX, September 3, 2004 [Volume 7, Number 37].
54
Priya Abraham. “Hooked on Failure.” World Magazine, November 6, 2004, pages 26 to 28.
55
Ibid.
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Some of the reasons that increasing the standard of living naturally leads to families having less children are listed below:
42• Greater Urbanization. An increased standard of living usually leads to greater urbanization. When a family lives in a ruralarea, each child can do necessary agricultural chores and can earn more than it costs the family to raise the child. When thefamily moves to urban areas, children cannot work at early ages and do not make the family more prosperous, as they would in
the countryside. They are perceived as a financial liability in the cities.
• Lower Infant and Child Mortality. Most developing countries do not have a national retirement plan such as Social Security.
This means that most elderly people must be supported by their children. The daughter usually goes to live with her husband’sfamily, so the only chance for an elderly person to have income is to have a living son in his or her old age. To make sure one son
survives, parents have two or three. As child mortality has declined, it has become less necessary to have several sons.
• Education of Women. Educated women begin childbearing at an older age and have fewer children overall. Better-educatedwomen tend not to marry less-educated men so that a relatively high percentage of educated women never marry, reducing thenumber of potential mothers.
• Job Opportunities for Women. Employment outside the home usually is associated with smaller families. Women employedoutside the home tend to have responsibilities, opportunities, and distractions which decrease factors that might otherwise leadthem to have more children.
• Higher Expectations. Television and radio bring people in developing nations a knowledge of how the wealthy (especially
Americans and Europeans) live and give them expectations that their living standard can become more similar to the wealthy.
Many opt for the material rewards that more money brings instead of the non-material and emotional rewards of parenthood.
The author of this report is a registered professional engineer in the State of Oregon and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civilengineering. He has visited the Philippines many times, and these numbers are the results of numerous consultations with civil
and construction engineers in the Philippines.
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