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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 23:49:00 EDT
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/* ---------- "Re: Population control" ---------- */
>But to imply that caring people throughout the world who are  do-
>ing  what  they  can,  including  population control, to stop the
>senseless deaths of 30 children a minute from  starvation  simply
>view humans as "tools" is an absolute outrage.

I won't join in discussing their motives, which I presume good.
But you might wish to read the arguments of those who assert that
these programs make the problems worse.

See, for example, the article "Helping Hand Won't Solve  Africa's
Problems" by Nick Eberstadt, in WSJ, Sep 17, 1986, p.30.

The article ends:
    
    Western aid directly underwrites current policies and  practices;
    indeed,  it  may  make  possible some of the more injurious ones,
    which couldn't be financed without external help.
    
    The public in the U.S. and other  Western  countries  must  face
    this  awful  reality  honestly  and  squarely.   The  West is, at
    present,  directly  complicitous  with  Africa's  rulers  in  the
    results they inflict upon their subjects. No change in rationales
    for aid, no new names for programs, no optimistic  pronouncements
    about policy changes in the near future will alter this fact.