The population bomb

Encouraged by the Population Councü and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, funded by the U.N. Population Fund and the World Bank, and ultimately underwritten by the West dozens of countries have run roughshod over the fundamental right of couples to decide for themselves the number and spacing of their chüdren. Take the idea- central to the worldview of academic feminism- that ordinary housewives around the world are just as desperate for access to contraception, sterilization, and abortion as their swinging sisters in Manhattan and Hollywood.\n It was only right that they should be able to choose freely free of manipulation and coercion, free of ignorance and prejudice, free of hunger and preventable disease. . . .