An Argument Against Population Control in the American Culture

In 1999, Gao Xiao Duan, a former Chinese administrator of the one-couple, one-child policy, appeared before the United States Congress to address this policy. In Duan's testimony, he recalled, "Once I found a woman [in China] who was nine months pregnant but did not have a birth-allowed certificate. According to policy, she was forced to undergo an abortion. In the operating room, I saw how the aborted child's lips were sucking, how its limbs were stretching. A physician intected poison into its skull, and the child died and was thrown into the trash can."

China is one of the largest proponents of the population control movement, which has won the approval of some of the most influential people around the world today. However, once these policies have been examined, it seems clear that population control tactics have no place in the American culture.

Our modern-day movement toward population control can be traced back to John D. Rockefeller. In 1952, Rockefeller returned from a trip to Asia where he'd viewed a massive population of people. Convinced that these masses were "the single greatest threat to the earth's survival", he quickly began diverting hundreds of millions of dollars from his foundation toward a goal of population stabilization. Apparently, Communist China agreed with Rockefeller's theories. By 1979, China had instituted their famous one-child policy. It is, by the way, a misconception that this policy was enacted due to dwindling food reserves; Hong Kong, whose population bursts at 75 times more people than mainland china, and who has no land available for agriculture, is one of the best-fed regions in the world.