China’s “twilight” girls and other anti-female practices:
Millions of first or second born females in China are known as “twilight girls,” because they are “hidden from authorities, unknown to hospitals, unschooled and often uncared for.” In an article dated 28 August 1993, the South China Post reports that some families, pressured by the requirements of China’s coercive population policies, deliberately fail to register the births of the girls. These parents hope that they can then “try again for a male to keep the family name alive” and have a boy child to support them in their old age.
On-the-job discrimination against women has worsened since China’s economic revolution in 1978. Manufacturers at free enterprise factories expect to make a profit and do not want their “financial results distorted” by women who may want “three months off to have a baby.”
Within the villages, “newly-rich” men who would not have been able to marry before, now “want a bride,” according to the Post . Since there are not enough women to go around, girls are, in some cases, abducted and “sold to their new husbands” by families.
Further discrimination is demonstrated in the use of ultrasound machines to identify female babies in utero. Women then “can get easily obtained abortions” of female fetuses. Adding to the Problem is infanticide and “death by neglect of girls in the countryside” (“The sufferings of the ‘second’ sex,” South China Morning Post, 28 August 1993).
Has Mechai Veravaidya, “the condom man,” helped or hurt Thais?
Mechai Veravaidya, grand occupier of a ‘Chair’ at Harvard University, the pet of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and hero of the population control ideologists, may have done more harm then good through his condom distribution program in Thailand. Dressed in his condom costume, merry Mechai has paraded through villages in his homeland tossing condoms in all directions. Deliberately desensitizing his people in order to enhance and encourage condom discussions and usage, Mechai has claimed that he was ‘helping’ his people avoid HIV infection. He usually failed to mention that a goodly portion of the international funds for population programs have ‘walked through’ the accounts of his own ‘family planning association,’ the Population and Community Development Association (PDA).
A study has now found that in spite of a high rate of condom use, HIV infection has “spread widely,” particularly in northern Thailand. Dr. Kenrad Nelson, author of the study, states, “If condoms are used 60 percent of the time but the infection rates are extremely high in the women, that means 40 percent of the exposures are unprotected.”
Of the 2,417 men drafted into the Thai military by lottery, Dr. Nelson found 12 percent were infected. Ninety-six percent of those infected had a history of sex with prostitutes; 61 percent of those infected said they used condoms at the time.
“The implications for Thailand are rather serious,” said Dr. Nelson (“Study finds Thai HIV crisis,” UPI, 25 August 1993).
Ireland funds population control in Third World:
The Irish Government contributed £75,000 to population control and ‘family planning’ in developing countries. This is a ‘first time’ contribution which “makes available contraceptives and abortion to Third World countries to ‘stabilize their populations,” according to the Irish Democrat . Ireland, which refused “such aid to control its own population,” has ranked “lowest among 20 countries supporting this enterprise” (“Ireland contributes to world ‘family planning,’” The Irish Democrat, 4-10 July 1993).
Hong Kong abortion incidence:
“Health and social welfare experts” in Hong Kong report a steady rise of 1,000 abortions per year since 1979. A Hong Kong Family Planning Association survey conducted in 1987 revealed that of 1,611 respondents aged 15 to 49, 33 percent had legal abortions, 22 percent had illegal abortions and 29 percent had abortions “over the border” in China.
The Department of Health (DOH) reports that 22,120 legal abortions occurred in 1991. It is possible that the total number of abortions may “outstrip” the total 1992 birth rate of 68,505 in the 1993 DOH statistics. The birth rate for Hong Kong has dropped to 1.4, one of the lowest in the world according to the Hong Kong Standard (James Clarke, “Abortions set to overtake births,” Hong Kong Standard, 17 August 1993).
Plundering Third World populations:
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) plans more plundering of Third World reproductive capacity in the coming years. In the 1993 first edition of Planned Parenthood (PP) Challenges, PP maps out a more aggressive policy aimed at increasing the use of contraceptives, sterilization and abortion promotion.
Fred Sai, President of International Planned Parenthood Federation was quoted: “Now for the first time, the IPPF Strategic Plan, unanimously adopted at the Member’s Assembly in Delhi last October, outlines activities at both the Secretariat and FPA level to further IPPF’s explicit goal of eliminating the high incidence of unsafe abortion and increasing the right of access to safe legal abortion.”
In the same issue, Nigeria’s PP chieftain, Dr. Abdulkadir Sulaiman, claimed that Planned Parenthood Federation Nigeria is to explore the idea of using peers to distribute non-prescriptive contraceptives, and is considering opening special youth clinics in urban centres (Lawrence Adekoya, Global Family News Network, Nigeria).
USAID and multilateral funding:
The U.S. Agency for International Development cooperates with the Department of State on the “planning and monitoring” of multilateral financial assistance. Such assistance includes Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) and International Organizations and Programs (IO&P).
Fiscal Year 1993 estimated budget authority for MDBs include: Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) $56,466,000, Fund for Special Operations $20,272,000, Subtotal (IADB) $76,738,000; World Bank (IBRD) $62,180,000; Global Environment Facility $30,000,000; International Finance Corporation $35,762,000; International Development Association $1,024,332,000; Asian Development Fund Bank $100,514,000; African Development Fund $103,893,000; European Development Bank $60,000,000; Subtotal for MDBs $1,493,419,000. Fiscal Year 1993 estimated total for IO&Ps is $325,000,000.
Funds requested for 1994 are as follows: Inter-American Development Bank $57,313,000; Fund for Special Operations $20,576,000; Subtotal (IADB) $77,889,000; World Bank (IBRD) $70,126,000; Global Environment Facility $30,810,000; International Finance Corp. $50,000,000; International Development Association $1,250,000,000; Asian Development Fund Bank $170,000,000; African Development Fund $135,000,000; European Development Bank $70,021,000; Subtotal for MDBs is $1,853,S46,000.
Funds (1994) requested for IO&P $390 million. (Fiscal Year 1994 — AID Congressional Presentation).
Japanese population assistance:
The Japanese Foreign Ministry’s 1991 Diplomatic Bluebook noted: “The population problem is closely related to economic policies, religion and human rights of the respective countries and its solution is not simple. It is vital to continue unpretentious activities, such as dissemination of family planning, information and educational activities, improvement in the status of women and upgrading health care for mothers and children.
“Japan, as a country which has much experience dealing with postwar population increase within the process of economic development, has been actively cooperating in the field of population mainly through the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), out of which $14.95 million was contributed to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) (Japan’s contribution to both of the above ranks the largest in the world). Moreover Japan has extended bilateral technical assistance to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Turkey, Egypt, Kenya, Colombia and Peru” (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Bluebook 1991: Japan’s Diplomatic Activities, 159).
Origins of birth control in Japan:
Writing a column for the Bangor Daily News from his retirement home in Steuben, Maine, the American “father of Japan’s birth-control movement,” Lincoln W. Landall, recalled his work in the occupation of Japan after World War II.
“In 1946, as an Army officer just graduated from a crash course in Asian and Far Eastern studies at Yale, I was dispatched to Tokyo for assignment as a rehabilitation economist and natural resources explorer-advisor, working closely with certain members of the newly formed diet, government.
“Frequent conferences invariably led to the subject of birth control. This concept caught on rapidly, and taxation laws, both coercive and exemptive, were passed. Public response was favorable and in a space of two years the average family size dropped from more than five children per family to just over two, an extrapolated figure that has prevailed until recently.”
Landall wrote: “I am gratified to have done my bit early on and to have earned the right to be remembered by the few remaining ‘old Japanese hands’ as ‘the father of Japan’s birth-control movement.’ In 1947 I was far less concerned for Japan’s future than to remove the ever-expanding welfare burden from the backs of American taxpayers.”
In the column Landall also expressed alarm over the “defunct concept of unlimited, ever-expanding economic growth,” which “depends upon an equally ever-expanding consumer market which in turn is fueled by an ever expanding population, ad infinitum, until resources and the environment turn belly up and all hell breaks loose.”
“I foresee in the not-too-distant future a gradual revival of a trend toward small farms that goes back to the village, and a gradual phasedown of shopping mall-supermarket empires, and the reopening of neighborhood grocery and convenience stores” (Lincoln W. Landall, guest column, “Make the world better for future generations,” Bangor Daily News, 18 March 1992).
Green’s nightmare prediction:
A Hudson Institute paper by Dennis T. Avery, director of global food issues at the Institute, says “the Greens are in real danger of giving environmentalism a bad name, because their short list of dangers has been drawn up with too little science and far too much conjecture.”
In his report, Avery reviews: Green Power, the Population Hoax, Blaming the Energy System, False Famine Fear-Mongering, Improving Global Agricultural Productivity, Denouncing Deforestation, and Reducing Poverty and Pollution with Economic Growth
“The key to a healthy environment for all the world is not the ill-conceived and half-considered ideas of the Greens,” Avery wrote. “Their proposals have been too anti-human and their science too flimsy to allow them to achieve broad international agreements on real change. The real solution is worldwide economic growth” (Dennis T. Avery, “Poverty Won’t Save the Planet,” Hudson Institute Briefing Paper, no. 142, July 1992).
Population speak out:
“The myth of overpopulation is one of the most pervasive myths in Western society, so deeply ingrained in the culture that it profoundly shapes the culture’s world view.” (Betsy Hartman, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs …, New York, Harper and Row, 1987, 4).
