And I believe it is why, when I was pregnant with our third child, my husband and I started getting jokes, and pressure, from even strangers to end our family's growth. One reason, I believe, is due to the myth of overpopulation. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, has propagated a philosophy that has slowly been absorbed into our way of thinking. There is an excellent book about her, The Angel of Death , that exposes the racist roots of her organization. The truth is that there is only one physical race from Adam, and all are equally valuable before God.
Overpopulation is a myth that has no basis of truth.
Julian L. Simon, Ph.D., professor of business administration at the University of Maryland and senior fellow at the CATO Institute, has written numerous highly acclaimed works demonstrating that the cry of overpopulation is myth. The most dramatic evidence that development of countries does not depend upon their rates of population growth is shown by the economic histories from 1950 onward . . . . The enormous influence of the political-economic system leaves nothing for population change to explain in these individual countries. The doomsayers of the population-control movement offer a vision of limits, decreasing resources, . . . Or should our vision be that of those who look optimistically upon people as a resource rather than as a burden . . . .