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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Population Control in Action
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 01:59:00 EDT
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From "Helping Hand Won't Solve Africa's Problems" by  Nick  Eber-
stadt, in WSJ, Sep 17, 1986, p.30. :

    Many poor Africans seem to fear that family-planning programs 
    will be used to enforce involuntary sterility upon them.
    
    Last March, the Washington Post recounted a story of a primary
    school in rural Kenya from which hundreds of children ran
    screaming, some scrambling through windows, upon the approach
    of an unfamiliar car: it was thought to contain population
    workers who would inject them with nonreversible contraceptives.
    
    The previous year starving  Kenyans  in  drought-afflicted  areas
    were  reported  to have refused relief shipments of U.S. corn, on
    the rumor that the corn had been laced with sterilants.
    
    Kenya, of course, is a country in which civil liberties are rela-
    tively  well  secured  and  government  policies  relatively  en-
    lightened. It is precisely for these reasons that such stories of
    deep-seated distrust and fear are noteworthy.

In other words, these scenes are probably worse in other places,
but we are unlikely to hear about them.

[orb@whuts.UUCP ]
/* ---------- "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.

These "caring" people may seem to themselves  as  noble  as  Dr.
Schweitzer;  but  the  "cared  for"  apparently  see  them as the
equivalents of Dr. Mengele... 

		Jan Wasilewsky