World population is currently 5.7 billion, more than double the number since 1957. And it continues to increase by 81 million per year. Any evaluation of current population control policies must include not only what takes place today but what will likely take place tomorrow, and under our most reliable projections children will only become more rare as time moves on. Doctor Stephen Karanja, an obstetrician and gynecologist and Secretary of the Kenyan Medical Association, has documented with care and passion the destructive impact population control programs have had on primary health care in his nation.
Basic drugs are difficult to obtain while contraceptives flood the country.
Women and children die right now from this lack. Further, the US Agency for International Development's own budget reflects an appalling lack of regard for women's health outside their pelvis. That's 1,600 women a day, the majority of whom are dying in childbirth. Nearly all these deaths could be prevented if these women had access to a full range of family planning services, including contraceptives, and pre- and postnatal care. The methodology used to arrive at this figure is akin to taking all every case of severe infection in the United States, including those from which people recover, lumping them all together and claiming they represent an accurate picture of American health.