“Colombia is their latest victim, and Joseph D’Agostino with the Population Research Institute says it won’t be the last.
“‘This legalization of abortion in Colombia by this court is just another step for the culture of death that is actually on the path to exterminating the human race in the Western world.’
“In fact, many of those countries, including Colombia, show declining birthrates with Mexico now below replacement rate.”
Kim Trobee, “Columbia’s First Abortion Leaves Citizens Reeling,” Family News in Focus, Focus on the Family, 29 August 2006, http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0041809.cfm
“‘When you look at the projections that show our population aging rapidly over the next few decades, when you see out economy and government programs such as Social Security risking bankruptcy, you can see that the United States’ annual 0.9% population growth rate is not enough,’ said Steven Mosher, President of PRI. ‘America’s baby boomers didn’t have many children on average, and as a result, our country faces a gray dawn. Even our currently high immigration levels hasn’t made up the difference.’
“‘According to United Nations figures, the percentage of the American population 65 or over will rise from 12.3% today to 20.6 % by 2050. The proportion of Americans 80 or over will rise from 3.6% to 7.3% of the population,’ said Joseph A. D’Agostino, Vice President for Communications at PRI. ‘Our worker-to-retiree ratio is already at a dangerous 3-to-1. By 2050, it will be 2-to-l. And those retirees will be living much longer than they do today thanks to beneficial improvement s in health care. We’ve been trying to make up for our low birthrate though lots of immigration, which has created its own problems. But if Americans refuse to create the next generation, then it must be imported.’”
“Population Group Says 300 Million Americans is Not Enough,” KSBI-TV 52, Oklahoma, 20 October 2006, http://www.ksbitv.com/technology/4427761.html
“The U.S. population growth is slowing and will continue to decline for the envisioned future, PRI reported.
“‘Labor is a renewable resource, but it is not being renewed fast enough,’ said Joseph D’Agostino, PRI’s vice president for communications. ‘Much attention is paid to the prevention of overfishing, overhunting, excessive logging and other phenomena that could threaten the supply of vital resources. Why is so little paid to the decline of our most valuable resource of all, human labor? Something has to be done about this soon, because children cannot be manufactured in China and shipped to us in hulk once we suddenly realize we need more.’
“The United States is not overcrowded. The country’s population density is 31 people per square kilometer, significantly short of the world average of 48, according to PRI.”
Tom Strode, Life Digest: Kids Needed, BP News, 23 October 2006, http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=24229
“Official federal spending on overseas ‘population assistance,’ which means Population control, has a slim chance of dropping significantly in fiscal year 2007. The Bush Administration proposed only $357 million for such family planning programs early this year, a significant reduction from the $425 million it typically proposed in previous years.
“Just looking at official population assistance figures for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States spent $429.5 million in FY2004, $437.3 million in FY2005, and an estimated $435.6 million in FY2006 (Congress likes to spend more than the President requests). This year, Bush asked for a lot less. He wanted $357 million for FY2007, and didn’t ask for any extra money for the UNFPA even though Congress keeps appropriating funds for it .…”
Joseph A. D’Agostino, “bush Asks For but Unlikely to Get Big Cut in U.S. Expenditures on Population Control?,” LifeSite.net, 6 October 2006, http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06100610.html
“The Population Research Institute says worries of overpopulation will abound when the media reports on the 300 millionth person, hut says there are no concerns because the nation’s population growth averages about 0.9% annually.
“‘With the population of the United States expected to continue aging for decades, threatening the impending bankruptcies of Social Security and Medicare among other crises, America needs more peoples,’ Mosher told LifeNews.com in a statement.
“Joseph A. D’Agostino, PRI’s vice president for communications, adds that the concerns some may have by the large wave of immigration into the United States in recent decades should be separated from issues of population growth.
“‘America’s aging problem and low unemployment rate means she needs more workers for the future,’ he said.
“‘Whether massive immigration causes more problems than in solves is a separate issue,’ D’Agostino added. ‘If Americans’ birthrate had not dropped so low since the 1960s, we wouldn’t be facing these problems in the first place. Government policies and cultural attitudes designed to increase Americans’ birthrates could solve all of these long-term issues.’
“Population control advocates say that there are too many people in America’s urban areas, but United Nations figures show that the United States is still well behind other nations in population density because the nation is so large and has so many rural areas with very few people that could sustain many more.”
Steven Ertelt, “U.S. Will Soon Have 300 Million People, But No Overpopulation Worries,” LifeNews.com, 13 September 2006, http://www.lifenews.com/nat2481.html
“300 Million, Social Security and Solvency” by Joseph A. D’Agostino was reprinted in the Australian publication Jonah, July-September 2006, Vol. 10, No. 4.
“Abortion the Cheap and Easy (!) Way” by Joseph A. D’Agostino was reprinted by the Australian publication Life Lines, September-October 2006.
“A Cut for Population Control Money?” by Joseph A. D’Agostino was reprinted by Human Events and LifeSite.net.
“Population Group Says 300 Million Americans Is Not Enough” by Joseph A. D’Agostino was reprinted by Spero News, Catholic Online and Earthtimes.org
