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Father of population control movement supports sex-selective abortion, mass sterilization
LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/28/11 | Kathleen Gilbert

Posted on 06/28/2011 3:56:37 PM PDT by wagglebee

June 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Even when confronted with the deaths of 160 million children in the womb simply because they were girls, the father of the modern population control movement doesn’t bat an eyelash.

The problem of sex-selective abortion has been receiving increased scrutiny in the media recently, following the release of Maria Hvistendahl’s book “Unnatural Selection,” which was reviewed last week in the Wall Street Journal.

In that book the author documents the devastation wrought by widespread female gendercide in countries that favor sons over daughters.  She also records a discussion about prenatal gendercide with Paul Ehrlich, the author of the 1977 book “The Population Bomb,” a seminal work in the modern population control movement.

In “The Population Bomb,” Ehrlich had mentioned sex selection as a potentially effective tool for reducing population, although effective prenatal gender determinators such as ultrasound had not yet been invented.

When recently confronted with his support for sex-selective abortion by Hvistendahl, Ehrlich reportedly expressed his continued support for the practice. Ehlich told Hvistendahl, “it would be a good idea to let people have their choice so that they could have fewer children and could have what they wanted.”

“You can be aborted as a conceptus, you can be killed at birth, or you can be sold into slavery and die in a slum someplace,” he said.

Hvistendahl writes that after she pointed out that the prenatal killing of girls has forced surviving women into even greater suffering, brought about by higher rates of kidnapping, sex trafficking and marriage brokering, Ehrlich agreed but dismissed the statistics as “the old unintended consequences problem.”

Ehrlich also defended the principle behind mass forced sterilization, a concept mentioned in a 1977 book he co-authored entitled “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,” but dismissed as impracticable.

While Ehrlich says critics have taken much of that book out of context, he told Hvistendahl that the idea of reversing fertility - that is, requiring potential parents to petition the government for permission to override the sterilant - would “solve a lot of the things that disturb people the most.” He also suggested that mass sterilization working in tandem with sex-selection technology would be particularly effective for population control interests.

Notably, the 1977 text was co-authored by the head of President Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren, who has faced widespread criticism for the pro-population control content found in the text.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; eugenics; moralabsolutes; populationcontrol; prolife; sterilization
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To: Quix
The terrifying thing is that NOBODY in the Obama administration has EVER repudiated eugenics-based population control and more than a few of them have openly endorsed such evil.
21 posted on 06/28/2011 5:20:09 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

ABSOLUTELY INDEED.

It is part of their commie/socialist/globalist

NEW WORLD ORDER RELIGION/MANTRA/

. . . saving planet earth from the humans etc. . . . demonized policies from hell.

One of the sadder things to me . . . is how many FREEPERS are still so blind about such FACTS.

Such things left the realm of “theory” decades ago.

When will folks wake-up, Wagglebee? When?


22 posted on 06/28/2011 5:26:19 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: tbw2

Thanks for the input.


23 posted on 06/28/2011 5:30:53 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Quix
One of the sadder things to me . . . is how many FREEPERS are still so blind about such FACTS.

Blind? There were FReepers the other day were were SUPPORTING this evil.

N.C. Forced Sterilization Victims Voice Grief, Pain

When will folks wake-up, Wagglebee? When?

I'm not certain waking up is even enough any more.

Seventy years ago, the United Kingdom and the United States were willing and able to stand up to evil tyranny. Today every nation that has the military ability to stand up to evil won't because they support it.

24 posted on 06/28/2011 5:32:52 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Quix

The real thing is it depends whether you look at statistics, or derive it from limited observation. If one bothered to look at real statistical data, a great deal of the world is not growing at its fastest proportional rate anymore. Think of how long it took for the world population to go from 4 billion to 5 billion, then from 5 billion to 6 billion, then 6 billion to 7 billion. It’s not too far-fetched to believe that the population globally may level off before or at about 9 billion, based on the curved pattern that the population growth has been taking.


25 posted on 06/28/2011 5:34:18 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Quix

I’m not sure the population decline is all too reversible anymore even. It’s possible that over a few generations, unless people change a whole lot, there will be few people around in numerous countries.


26 posted on 06/28/2011 5:37:35 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: DoughtyOne

I’ve read articles about this many times. How can anything under the aegis of the UN be anything but hellish at worst and sickeningly incompetent and money wasting at best?


27 posted on 06/28/2011 5:38:03 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: wagglebee

True. True.

Dreadfully true.

Though even back then . . . it was a . . . staged war for manipulative reasons engineered start to finish by the same oligarchic cabal engineering even more dreadful and more satanic manipulations currently.

Christ alone can clean up this mess.

Armageddon has been scheduled.

It’s the stuff between now and then that will be plenty . . . ‘messy.’

BTW, I appreciate such dialogues with you.


28 posted on 06/28/2011 5:39:00 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Morpheus2009

Won’t happen.

Even Scripture talks of 1/3 being killed during the earlier part of the Great Tribulation IIRC.

And another 1/3 of what’s left killed off later.

And that’s still not down to the 200 million left goal of the globalists.


29 posted on 06/28/2011 5:40:10 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix
It’s the stuff between now and then that will be plenty . . . ‘messy.’

Yet though that time may be short, it could easily be a long time.

BTW, I appreciate such dialogues with you.

Me too.

30 posted on 06/28/2011 5:42:03 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Morpheus2009

Certainly . . . barring dramatic things . . .

Europe is already below survivability given being below replacement birth-rates—it is doomed to Islamization.

The USA is only hanging on barely because of illegal immigration.


31 posted on 06/28/2011 5:42:07 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: little jeremiah

INDEED.


32 posted on 06/28/2011 5:42:37 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: wagglebee

THX.

I still hold to the 7 years of Tribulation with the last 3.5 years being THE GREAT TRIBULATION with the beginning of God’s utter wrath being poured out on the world at the 3.5 year half-way mark.

imho.


33 posted on 06/28/2011 5:43:59 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix

Don’t worry, we will become a Latino nation, although I would argue possibly Mexican, because of the different groups of Latinos, the immigrants have a fairly high fertility rate.


34 posted on 06/28/2011 5:50:23 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: little jeremiah
Well, to be honest those questions stump me.

I haven't got an answer. You nailed it.

Perhaps you remember this old relic. ;^)

Okay lest you harbor the opinion I don't think the U. N. Flag is good for anything. Let me assure you it is.


35 posted on 06/28/2011 5:55:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Muslim Brotherhood (renames itself) the Liberty and Justice Party. NOT A JOKE.)
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To: little jeremiah

I wonder if the U.N. has officially acknowledged that most of the world needs to start encouraging high fertility rates just to level off. That, because it is true. At Japan’s current fertility rate, they figure it will all be diminished within a short time frame.


36 posted on 06/28/2011 6:01:40 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: wagglebee
She also records a discussion about prenatal gendercide with Paul Ehrlich, the author of the 1977 book “The Population Bomb,” a seminal work in the modern population control movement.
That's quite some "seminal work". Did anything that this fraud Ehrlich predicted in that piece of garbage book come anywhere close to what actually happened after it was published? We've had thirty plus years to find out.

If millions of people actually did die from the world-wide famines in the 1980s, sorry, I must not have been paying enough attention.

37 posted on 06/28/2011 6:06:27 PM PDT by Bob
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To: wagglebee

Bump


38 posted on 06/28/2011 6:27:29 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: DoughtyOne

My rural backward valley has quite a few signs “THE US OUT OF THE UN AND THE UN OUT OF THE US”.

Warms the cockles of my heart to see them.


39 posted on 06/28/2011 6:36:10 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Morpheus2009

The UN only wants to encourage evil tyrants, jihadis, and African dictators. From what I can gather. Populations? They don’t like people, unless they’re the tyrants, dictators, jihadis or GLBTs.


40 posted on 06/28/2011 6:37:58 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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