Adolescents are Population Controllers’ Main Target
Ted Turner’s UN Foundation, founded in 1997, has given $51 million to support UN projects that relate to “child health.” But as European news agency ZENIT points out, the Turner grant has less to do with funding basic health programs for children throughout the developing world, than with providing “sexual health” propaganda and supplies to teens. The supplies may also include “morning after” pills and promotional material for abortion as a back-up to contraceptive failure.
The Turner grant, which was given last November, will be used by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNFPA. Said Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of UNFPA: “This assistance will help give adolescents some of the information and services they need to protect their health and to make responsible choices.” The grant will be used to promote contraception in AIDS-stricken Africa, and in Russia, where the population is already beginning to plummet. Both WHO and UNFPA promote and provide “morning after” pills as a “non-abortion inducing” method of contraception. The grant appears to be a direct answer to UNFPA’s fundraising effort that centered on 12 October 1999, the birthday of the world’s six billionth person as projected by the UN Population Division. “Global population is still rising by about 78 million people a year.” the UNFPA reported in its document titled “The State of World Population 1999,” released on that date. “Half the world is under 25 and there are over a billion young people between 15 and 24, the parents of the next generation. Contraceptive use in developing countries increased by 1.2 per cent annually between 1990 and 1995, but the needs of 20–25 per cent of couples are still not being met.”
Too Many People?
In a CNN debate with PRI President Steve Mosher on 12 October, actress Blythe Danner, who represented UNFPA, said that “one billion” adolescents are “waiting in the wings” and that their “reproductive choices” will determine the future of humanity. More “population control” is required, especially for adolescents, she said.
Mosher debunked the myth of overpopulation by pointing out the benefits of moderate population growth. “The world’s population has doubled since 1960, and humanity has never been so prosperous… UNFPA is abusing this happy occasion… to request still more funds to reduce birthrates… We are grateful that Baby Six Billion will come into this world. Baby Six Billion, boy or girl, red or yellow, black or white, is not a liability, but an asset; not a curse, but a blessing for us all.”
Mosher said that population control invariably leads to human rights abuses, a subject which Danner admitted knowing little about. Mosher’s statistical analysis showed that UNFPA’s reports on fertility understated the number of nations with at or below replacement fertility rates. He said that the more pressing problem in the world today is not lack of contraception, but lack of funds for basic health programs and programs that promote authentic social and economic development.
(ZENIT News, “New Turner Donations Promote Adolescent Sexuality in Developing Countries,” 3 December 1999; UNFPA, “‘The State of the World Population 1999,” press summary, 12 October 1999, http://www.unfpa.org/swp/1999/pressumary1.htm; CNN, “CNN and Co.,” 12 October 1999.)
