We control no nation's population, including our own. If we wanted their oil that bad we could just take it.
I only wish that were the case. Most international loans to third world countries have stipulations of population control goals that must be met, by coercive measures if necessary:
November 14, 1997 Volume 1, Edition 8
The World Bank Banks on Population Control
World Bank officials disclosed this week the extent of current Bank involvement in international population control programs. Speaking at a briefing on Wednesday at UN Headquarters, Dr. Richard Feachem, World Bank Director for Health, Nutrition and Population(HNP), disclosed that approximately 30% of the World Bank's annual portfolio for HNP loans, or about $800 million of 1996's $2.4 billion in new HNP lending, was devoted to population initiatives.
Feacham stressed that the World Bank's population programs conform with the commitments of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. He said the World Bank has adopted "an overall mandate in reducing fertility rates" as part of its commitment to "alleviate poverty" in developing countries. Feachem released World Bank documents which explicitly endorse the Bank's support for "universal access to a full range of...family planning methods," and "reproductive health services." The documents also detail the Bank's co-operation in these areas with other international agencies under the leadership of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). By UN definition, both family planning and reproductive health services include access to abortion and contraceptives.
Feacham's briefing also disclosed that along with giving hundreds of millions of dollars to population control, the Bank is providing grants to "population NGOs" to further assist the promotion of contraceptive- and abortion-based anti-fertility programs.
Present in the audience was UN Development Program (UNDP) Policy Director Anders Wijkman who expressed concern that not enough was being done to implement the Cairo commitments. Feacham replied, "I think Cairo was dead right, but making it work is proving quite difficult." The briefing highlighted both the massive scope of current World Bank backing for population control -- compared to virtually non-existent funding less than a decade ago --and the increasing integration of World Bank lending policies with the social agendas advanced by international agencies like the UNDP and the UNFPA.
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MASSIVE COERCIVE STERILIZATION IN PERU DONE UNDER UNITED NATIONS SUPERVISION
Media Omits United Nations Involvement
CUSCO, Peru, July 24, 2002
(LSN.ca) - The BBC and UPI (United Press International) report today on a Peruvian Congressional commission report which has found evidence that perhaps as many as 200,000 women were forcibly sterilized in the 1990s under former dictator Alberto Fujimori. However, the media coverage fails to mention that the commission's report indicates that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was established as the "Technical Secretary" of the forced sterilization campaigns.
A detailed report on the commission's findings by the Population Research Institute (PRI) quotes the report as it says Fujimori's coercive population control campaigns "presupposed an inverse relationship between population growth and economic growth. Based on this mistaken presupposition, [Fujimori's] National Population Program established demographic strategies and methods explicitly restrictive and controlling; in this line, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), known for its support of population control in developing countries, took charge. For that end, the United Nations Population Fund act[ed] as Technical Secretary, working in coordination with the National Population Council."
The coercive sterilization campaigns "executed by the Peruvian government [under Fujimori] were induced and financed by international organizations, especially. the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)," states the report. The UNFPA, along with other international groups, "brought not only special financing but also demographic goals, for the focalized reduction of the Peruvian population and the fecundity of Peruvian women, especially the women of rural areas."
PRI's own investigations into UNFPA-supported forced sterilization campaigns in Peru in 1998, then again in 1999 had victims of forced sterilization testify that women in Peru were routinely treated like animals by family planning cadres, called "beasts" and "dogs" and forcibly sterilized. PRI contends that the Peruvian report confirms the U.S. made the right decision in defunding the UNFPA since the U.S. is forbidden by law from supporting organizations which support coercive abortion and/or sterilization.
See the full PRI report at:
http://www.pop.org/briefings/wb072202.htm
See the BBC and UPI reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2148793.stm
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020724-121010-8030r