Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute tells us in his article today what we should expect on abortion from an Obama administration. Mosher has been very effective in exposing the extreme abortion agenda of Communist China and getting the US to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from China because of this. We should trust his judgement.
Steve Jalsevac, “Comments on November 6 News,” LifeSiteNews, 06 November 2008
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Joseph D’Agostinio says that Mosher, in his book Population Control, Real Costs, Illusory Benefits, “provides the material to counteract the overpopulation myth still dominant in the mainstream media,” and declares that his book “should be read by all those who want to know why thriving human populations are reasons to rejoice rather than fear” (in The Washington Times, July 27, 2008). I fear that, unfortunately, the major media will simply ignore this compelling book, one whose message sorely needs to be heeded and whose advice implemented for the good of our nation and of the whole world. . .
Mosher deeply loves his country, the United States of America. His message is that we are unfortunately perceived by millions in the developing world as “ugly Americans,” seeking our own self-interest and abetting in curtailing the birthrates of others, sometimes subtly encouraging coercive measures by their governments, in order to retain its hegemony. In its mildest forms our current policies encourage “a technocratic paternalism that effectively subjugates individual and familial fertility desires to the wishes of the state” (p. 255). His advice, presented in depth on pages 255-266, is many-faceted. In essence it calls on the President and Congress to get out of the population control mania, to invite recognized human rights groups to monitor population control programs operative throughout the world, to close the Population Office of USAID, and similar measures. Once steps like these have been taken we can attack the real problem: cascading birth rates around the world.
Dr. William E. Mays, “Review of ‘Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits'” Culture of Life Foundation
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Planned Parenthood and other socially liberal organizations pumped millions of dollars into the president-elect’s recent campaign, and Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute says the abortion provider and other like groups want to be paid back.
“They’d like to see spending on international population control programs more than doubled to one billion [dollars],” he contends. “They’d like to see domestic money that flows to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers increased by a couple hundred million to $700 million.”
Mosher adds that pro-abortion groups plan to be heavily involved in another arena. “They’d like to lock in their electoral victory by locking down the Supreme Court for a generation to come with several new, young, abortion-minded justices,” he notes.
Charlie Butts, “Paid in advance—Obama’s debt to abortion providers” One News Now, 19 November 2008
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Has the reduction of population through abortion, contraception, and sterilization made the world a better place? No, we’ve ended up, as Steven Mosher points out, materially poorer, less advanced economically, less diverse culturally, and plagued with incurable diseases and many that are curable but ignored. Security isn’t better, nor is the environment better protected . . .
. . . Therefore the Church opposes any government plan to try to control fertility by placing limits on the parents’ God-given right to procreate and educate their children. Population control policies exhibit, in Mosher’s words, a “technocratic paternalism,” which subjugates family and individual fertility to the wishes of the state . . .
. . . But Mosher points out that many of these policies ignore the dynamics of the natural family and instead favor gender and marriage-neutral polices . . .
. . . At the turn of the millennium, the world’s population hit 6 billion. Population alarmists lamented that fact. But an international group of leaders issued a statement that reflected instead the joyful hope that should be shared by us all: “We are grateful that Baby Six Billion has come into the 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 all of us” (Population Research Institute statement, October 11, 1999).
Fr. Frank Pavone, “Planet Un-Parenthood: The Myths of Overpopulation” This Rock, December 2008
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