Educational Resource
Make Room for People - Steven W. Mosher
For over half a century, the population control movement has waged war on human fertility. Originally a fringe movement driven by fear of a "population explosion," especially among peoples of color, the movement has over the years gained clout, if not respectability. Its ranks now include major international organizations like the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations Population Fund, as well as the foreign aid bureaucracies of most of the wealthy countries of the world. Billons of dollars are at its disposal.
Many governmental recipients of foreign aid object to population reduction targets and coercive contraception and sterilization policies, but often they can do little against the "powerful of the earth," as Pope John Paul II called them, who "prefer to promote and impose by whatever means a massive program of birth control. Even the economic help which they would be ready to give is unjustly made conditional on the acceptance of an anti-birth policy" (The Gospel of Life [Evangelium Vitae], no. 16).
Steven W. Mosher is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of Population Control: Real Costs and Illusory Benefits (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 2008). He is the host of the EWTN series, "Promoting the Culture of Life Around the World, " and frequently testifies before the U.S. Congress on population and human rights issues.