| Description |
x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The white pestilence -- The Malthusian delusion and the origins of population control -- The Chinese model -- Out of Africa : the case of Nigeria -- Human rights and reproductive wrongs -- Population control while people die : undermining primary health care -- The illusory benefits to donor countries -- "We're from USAID, and we're here to help" -- From population control to pro-natal programs -- Appendix : USAID contraceptive shipments worldwide |
| Summary |
"For over half a century, policymakers committed to population control have perpetrated a gigantic, costly, and inhumane fraud upon the human race. They have robbed people of the developing countries of their progeny and the people of the developed world of their pocketbooks. Determined to stop population growth at all costs, those Mosher calls "population controllers" have abused women, targeted racial and religious minorities, undermined primary health care programs, and encouraged dictatorial actions if not dictatorship. They have skewed the foreign aid programs of the United States and other developed countries in an anti-natal direction, corrupted dozens of well-intentioned nongovernmental organizations, and impoverished authentic development programs. Blinded by zealotry, they have even embraced the most brutal birth control campaign in history: China's infamous one-child policy, with all its attendant horrors." |
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"Movements with billions of dollars at their disposal, not to mention thousands of paid advocates, do not go quietly to their graves. Moreover, many in the movement are not content to merely achieve zero population growth, they want to see negative population numbers. In their view, our current population should be reduced to one or two billion or so. Given that even modest population decline may have serious economic and societal consequences, their publicly funded war on people should be ended now."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-296) and index |
| Subject |
Birth control.
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Population policy.
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| LC no. |
2007045617 |
| ISBN |
1412807123 |
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1412807131 (paperback) |
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9781412807128 |
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9781412807135 (paperback) |
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