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FAITH STORIES

cept of a “population explosion”
was an ideologically motivated false
alarm specifically designed to allow
rich nations to pillage the resources
of the poorer nations. The resulting
push for population control in LDCs
has borne absolutely no positive fruit
in its decades of implementation. In
fact, population control ideologies
and programs make it even more
difficult to respond to the impend-
is that mandatory [population con- $100 million to China’s population ing grave crisis looming in the form
trol] programs may be needed and control program; has bought and of a disastrous worldwide “popula-
that we should be considering these custom-designed a $12 million IBM tion implosion.” It is time to begin
possibilities now.” The document computer complex specifically to urging families to have more chil-
also recommends considering using monitor the population program; dren, not fewer, if we are to avoid a
coercion in an indirect form, such provided the technical expertise and worldwide demographic catastrophe.
as withholding disaster and food personnel that trained thousands
aid unless a targeted LDC imple- of Chinese population control of- The first step in such a massive
ments population control programs: ficials; and presented China with change in policy is, of course, to
“Would food be considered an in- an award for the “most outstand- change our vision and our values. In
strument of national power? Will ing population control program.”20 order to do this, we must repudiate
we be forced to make choices as Conclusions old ways of thinking and outmoded
to whom we can reasonably assist, NSSM-200 was based upon out- ways of accomplishing our objectives.
and if so, should population efforts dated demographic information. It
be a criterion for such assistance?” predicted that the population of the NSSM-200 represents the worst
world would stabilize at about 10 to aspect of the “advanced” nations
As always, the population controllers 13 billion, with some demographers meddling in the most intimate affairs
must be careful to conceal their mo- predicting that the world population of lesser developed nations. It sym-
tives and methods, especially regard- would balloon to as high as 22 billion bolizes as no other document does
ing coercion. NSSM-200 says “In people. Now we know that the popu- the face of the “ugly American.” It
these sensitive relations, however, it is lation of the world will reach about 8.3 advocates violating the most pre-
important in style as well as substance billion, and then will begin to decline. cious freedoms and autonomy of the
to avoid the appearance of coercion.” individual through coercive family
In other words, the United States will The worldwide application of the planning programs. The document
not avoid coercion itself, of course strategies recommended in NSSM- represents a classic example of the
— just the appearance of coercion. 200 has resulted in regional popula- short-sightedness of the Culture of
tion growth rates decelerating so fast Death, which always chooses the
NSSM-200, which is completely de- that they are already causing severe easier wrong over the harder right.
void of morality or ethics, has in- economic and social problems in Eu-
evitably encouraged atrocities and rope, the former Soviet Union, Japan, The United States and the other
massive human rights violations in South Korea, Singapore and Hong nations of the developed world, as
dozens of nations. For example, Kong. Many developing nations are well as ideologically motivated pop-
the United States government has now aging even more rapidly than the ulation control NGOs, should be
lavishly funded the United Nations developed world, which foretells of supporting and guiding authentic
Population Fund (UNFPA) for even more severe problems for their economic development that allows
many years. One of the main tar- relatively underdeveloped econo- the people of each nation to use
gets of UNFPA money is the Peo- mies. The developed nations had the their resources for their own ben-
ple’s Republic of China (PRC) and opportunity to become rich before efit, thereby leading to an enhance-
its widely-criticized forced abortion they became old; if a nation becomes ment of human rights worldwide
and family planning program. Ac- old first, it will never become rich. and healthier economies for all.
cording to its own documents, the
UNFPA has donated more than From the very beginning, the con-

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