Posted on 11/01/2015 7:17:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This isn't a government policy. Yet. But it's influential among the sorts of people who eventually make policies through NGOs and media pressure campaigns. China has abandoned its One Child Policy complete with forced abortions. But to some in the UK, it's looking quite good.
As a GP, Hayes feels strongly that medical professionals should encourage people to have smaller families. “Doctors should be promoting replacement number of children; two per couple, one per single parent,†she says. “We don’t need to do this by coercion, we just need to talk about it.â€
Likewise Claire Coveney, 32, who decided at 26 she didn’t want a family. “I’m not saying that everyone should go down this route, it goes against most people’s natural instincts,†she concedes. “What I would suggest is that people consider the wider repercussions of having more than one child.â€
Right. No coercion yet. The coercion comes for the holdouts who won't go along.
The results of a YouGov survey of 2,362 adults, commissioned earlier this year by the organisation Population Matters, revealed that 63% of UK adults think environmental conservation should be taken into account when deciding how many children to have. Of that group, 51% believe people should have no more than two offspring.
Also 63% of UK adults expect lots and lots of government benefits, but are unclear how a generation with fewer children is supposed to pay for them. But if you think this isn't coming to the US, think again.
Pick up a copy of Obama’s $3.9 trillion budget and there among the TSA fee hikes, Medicare payment cuts and the $400 million for the Department of Homeland Security to fight global warming is a curious little item.
On Page 930 of the budget that never ends is $575 million for “family planning/reproductive health†worldwide especially in "areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species."
The idea that the way to protect insects, fish and animals is by preventing human beings from having children is part of an approach known as Population, Health and Environment (PHE) which integrates population control into environmentalist initiatives.
PHE dates back to the 1980s and is practiced by mainstream organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund. The Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson Center, which is funded partly by the US government, aggressively champions PHE eugenics and USAID funds PHE programs and distributes PHE training manuals derived in part from Wilson Center materials.
PHE had been baked into congressional bills such as the Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2013 co-sponsored by Debbie Wasserman-Shultz and Sheila Jackson-Lee which urged meeting United Nations Millennium Development Goals by using birth control as, among other things, a means of "ensuring environmental sustainability."
What's a little genocide if it might save the whales?
Just more evidence of leftist cultural suicide. All cultures rise and then fall. Decades ago I heard talk of how we were paralleling the Romans and did not believe it, but those observations were valid and are more so now.
The evidence I have read shows 2.0 for native and 2.8 for Muslims. If I am wrong, I hold my hands up.
Fair point, please note I don’t deny the UK has a Muslim problem, just that it has been grossly exaggerated in the US.
Mum government making more room for the new occupants — islamonazi caliphate — by reducing the British population while importing millions of mostly enemy Moslems The sell- out of uk is in its last lap to completion.
That should expedite the muzzies takeover.
Well it would appear that coercion is not necessary. Looks like enough of the population of Britain has decided that breeding is a bad idea. Cultural suicide.
Maybe in a hundred years the muzzie historians for the pan-European caliphate will write about the demographic suicide of the area formerly known as Great Britain. Probably not, though. Muzzies don’t seem to be much into history.
Ya can’t fix stupid.
Over time that .8 difference is YUGE.
Yeah, this is so wrong. WHITE PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE MORE CHILDREN. A LOT MORE CHILDREN. GET COOKING FOLKS!
It will eventually be in the US.
A fertility rate of 2.8% is 40% higher than 2.0%.
Not surprising, since the UK has more Communists than China, these days.
I know that, I did get my O-Level in Arithmetic.
All I am trying to point out is a—its dropping not rising/will drop not rise and b—putting any Muslim rise in context to the size of the UK population. 96% of the UK is NOT Muslim, 92% is white. This idea we will be demographically conquered is a nonsense.
If each Muslim pairing produces .8 more children. Do the math. You will be demographically conquered.
Do you see that natives reproducing at 2.0 are not reproducing themselves. You have to produce average of 2.11 to reproduce yourself. Natives are not reproducing and Muslims are over-reproducing.
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