Western industrialists and political idealogues play the ‘piper’s tune’ which has led the American public on a dreamwalk into the future. Perfecting the dancers in the dreamworld by reducing their numbers to a controllable, eugenically-perfected “few” is essential to the dream. American government enacts the role of “enabler,” leading the macabre dance in a delirium of hormonal drug-pushing and surgical mutilation. The dream is focused on a golden idol of economic progress and scientifically-guaranteed, orgasmic satisfaction. Through a skillful blending of government data-burying and data-collection, political propagandizing and public education, Americans have become the first victims.
Drenched in the illusion of ultimate scientific progress, American women have taken the drugs and submitted to surgeries in order to buy into the dream. The vision of providing a ‘perfected’ world for our ‘perfected’ children has bound us to the conscience-forming directives of gnostic social-engineers. In these interests we have been willing to close our eyes to the dark side of science, carefully ignoring increases in breast cancers, cervical cancers, venereal diseases, pelvic inflammatory infections, ectopic gestations, placenta previa, infertility and under-reported, reproductive-related mortalities.
Blinding ourselves to reality, we have accepted the image of Third World people as unwashed, inferior hordes with multitudes of runny-nosed children whom we have been destined to ‘save from themselves.’ The illusion of innate superiority welded to a messianic national will has assuaged our consciences as we use the bodies of Third World people to perfect the surgeries and drugs necessary for the perpetuation of our dreamwalk.
USAID “Enabling” Practices
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) perfects hormonal drugs and reproductive surgeries through the funding of clinical field trials and medical experimentation on populations in Third World countries. In this sense, it is the “enabling” agency for the piper’s tune. The USAID “Family Planning Research and Services (FPRS)” is one of the programs which employs such clinical field trials. The U.S.-based Population Council (the Council), operating under the FPRS program, is a major “player” in the scientific marketplace of reproductive control and population reduction. The Council ‘practices’ its arts in Third World nations, USAID’s $37 million contract (DPE-3050-A-00-805900) with the Population Council itemizes the details.
The contract, dated August 1985–August 1993, has the ideological intention of, “enhanc[ing] the freedom of individuals in developing countries to choose voluntarily the number and spacing of their children.” This is to be accomplished by improving the technologies “available for use in developing countries” through “contraceptive development” which includes “clinical field trials in a variety of countries and clinical settings” as an “integral part of the research program.”
The Council affirms responsibility for “introductory activities” which include information and training strategies; curricula and informational materials for medical and paramedical personnel; transfer and adaptation of curricula to different country settings; and the establishment of local manufacture in Third World countries through the ‘vested’ interests of local businessmen.
Long term methods to be developed through Council research activities, include: long-acting steroidal contraceptive systems with a single implant; a Levonogestrel-releasing IUD; a progesterone ring for breast-feeding women; implants releasing new progestins including but not limited to ST-1435 and 3-keto-desogestrel carried out in collaboration with a corporate partner; Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone (LHRH) analogs for men; “probing studies” on male and female gonadal factors including inhibin and gonadotropin-surge releasing factor (GnSIF), new spermicides, anti-LHRL and anti-sperm vaccines, and non-surgical male sterilization. The contract also states that the Council has “substantial research experience” in post-partum family planning and breast-feeding promotion.
Does ‘Practice Make Perfect’?
Bangladesh provides an example of previous Population Council activity, Research into Norplant “field trials,” conducted by UBINIG, a Bangladesh-based organization which investigates women’s health issues, reports that the trials were conducted on the basis of “acceptability and effectiveness” without concern for the “safety aspects” of women in Bangladesh. They describe these practices as “unethical research” in which “women were considered living test sites” rather than “human beings with a right to dignity and integrity.” They quote ‘cooperating gynecologist’ Dr. Kohinoor who stated: “…95% of our clients belong to the very poor class. They are responsible for giving birth four or five times. Since they cannot remember to take birth control pills every day, long-acting contraceptives are much better for them.… In order to have a good thing there is always a price to pay. If two or three women die — what’s the problem? The population will be reduced.…”
Although Dr. Kohinoor cautioned breastfeeding mothers against using Norplant because “the hormone…may pass from mother to the child through the breast milk and might cause harm to the baby,” six out of the 10 women in the ‘clinical trial’ sample were breastfeeding. UBINIG said: “In our view, it (the hormone combined with breastfeeding) is a further indication of the violation of medical ethics which characteriz[ed] the Norplant trial in Bangladesh” (“Norplant the five year needle…,” Issues in Reproductive Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, 221–8).
The Population Council now promises to “build on previous family planning research and evaluation activities in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa .…” They plan on integrating these ‘practices’ into already existing programs.
The piper plays on, but the illusion has shifted to reveal a nightmare of uncounted, anonymous deaths; the ‘enabler’ has metamorphosed into a magician with a bag of tricks; the ‘golden idol’ has crumbled into golden coins which flow into the bottomless pockets of others.
We’ve danced to the piper’s tune — now — we will pay his price.
