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A movement spearheaded by American liberals in the late 1960'-1990's concentrated it's efforts at warning people that the United States, as well as the rest of the world, was headed for dire circumstances due to overpopulation. Groups like Planned Parenthood, the Population Council, and Zero Population Growth aggressively sought to convince Americans to restrict the size of their families, by force if necessary. Planned Parenthood's Vice President Frederick Jaffe authored what became known as 'the Jaffe memo' in which he considered ideas like the forced sterilization of women, how to promote homosexuality as a positive lifestyle, and how to decrease the high marriage rate amongst Americans. Jaffe went on to join the Guttmacher Institute, whose namesake Alan Guttmacher was a member of the Association For Voluntary Sterilization. Guttmacher had 3 children of his own.
The main public face of the population control movement became Paul Erhlich, a biologist from Stanford University. Erhlich was a guest on the Tonight Show 20 times, and wrote a bestseller about the need for lower birthrates in the USA. He favored governmental subsidies for married couples who remained childless, and compulsory measures for those who wouldn't obey. Erhlich endorsed blacklisting people, companies and organizations who refused to comply. Tax credits were to be issued to childless couples, while adding a luxury tax to diapers, cribs, and toys were also ideas Erhlich espoused.
If these ideas don't sound Orwellian enough, Erhlich also endorsed plans to add sterility drugs as an ingredient in processed foods.
The ideas of these later 20th century American liberals were thought so highly of that they were promoted on television, in magazine articles, and highly prized by academia.
So why have liberals abandoned their former calls for population control? Even climate change isn't important enough of an issue to bring back American liberal's former hunger for communist styled population control.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_S._Jaffe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttmacher_Institute
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich
The main public face of the population control movement became Paul Erhlich, a biologist from Stanford University. Erhlich was a guest on the Tonight Show 20 times, and wrote a bestseller about the need for lower birthrates in the USA. He favored governmental subsidies for married couples who remained childless, and compulsory measures for those who wouldn't obey. Erhlich endorsed blacklisting people, companies and organizations who refused to comply. Tax credits were to be issued to childless couples, while adding a luxury tax to diapers, cribs, and toys were also ideas Erhlich espoused.
If these ideas don't sound Orwellian enough, Erhlich also endorsed plans to add sterility drugs as an ingredient in processed foods.
The ideas of these later 20th century American liberals were thought so highly of that they were promoted on television, in magazine articles, and highly prized by academia.
So why have liberals abandoned their former calls for population control? Even climate change isn't important enough of an issue to bring back American liberal's former hunger for communist styled population control.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_S._Jaffe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttmacher_Institute
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich