Exposing
the Global Population Control Agenda
By Brian
Clowes, Ph.D.
Comment by Julio Severo: I met Dr.
Clowes some 15 years ago at a special pro-life training in Brasília, Brazil.
During some days, I was able to learn from him and know his superb pro-life
knowledge, which all of us need. So I am bringing you a little of his pro-life
wisdom in his article on NSSM 200. If you do not know this document, you should
know it, because, as says Dr. Clowes, “NSSM-200 is critically important to
pro-life workers all over the world, because it completely exposes the unsavory
and unethical motivations and methods of the population control movement.”
Every pro-life leader in the world needs to be acquainted with it, because it
is impossible to understand the current obsessive pro-abortion efforts without
grasping the influence of NSSM 200. This is a must-read article. For
international readers, what is striking in this heinous document is that it was
issued by a Republican administration. All of us know that Democrats are
pro-abortion and unrealiable when they are in power. See the example of
pro-abortion Barack Obama. But are Republicans unsuspicious? Do they never
collaborate in population-control schemes? Sadly, NSSM 200 shows otherwise. So
whether under Democrats or Republicans, the population-control machine in the
U.S. government advances. Ronald Reagan, of course, was a marvelous exception.
In 1992 I was asked by a pro-life consultant in the Brazilian Senate to
translate crucial portions, which were then distributed among Brazilian
senators. Here is the article by Dr. Clowes:
The United
States National Security Council is the highest decision-making body on foreign
policy in the United States. On December 10, 1974, it promulgated a top secret
document entitled National Security Study Memorandum 200, also called The
Kissinger Report. Its subject was “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth
for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” This document, published shortly
after the first major international population conference in Bucharest, was the
result of collaboration among the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Departments of
State, Defense and Agriculture.
NSSM-200 was
made public when it was declassified and was transferred to the U.S. National
Archives in 1990.
Although the
United States government has issued hundreds of policy papers dealing with
various aspects of American national security since 1974, NSSM-200 continues to be the foundational document on population
control issued by the United States government. It therefore continues to
represent official United States policy on population control.
NSSM-200 is
critically important to pro-life workers all over the world, because it
completely exposes the unsavory and unethical motivations and methods of the
population control movement.
The Purpose of NSSM-200
The primary purpose of U.S.-funded population control
efforts is to maintain access to the mineral resources of less-developed
countries, or LDCs. NSSM-200 says that the U.S. economy will require large and increasing
amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries… That fact gives the U.S. enhanced interest in the
political, economic, and social stability of the supplying countries. Wherever
a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase
the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to
resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States.
In order to
protect U.S. commercial interests, NSSM-200 cited a number of factors that
could interrupt the smooth flow of materials from LDCs to the United States,
including a large population of anti-imperialist youth, whose numbers must be
limited by population control. The document identified 13 nations by name that
would be the primary targets of U.S.-funded population control efforts.
According to
NSSM-200, elements of the implementation of population control programs could
include:
* the legalization of abortion;
* financial incentives for countries to increase their
abortion, sterilization and contraception-use rates;
* indoctrination of children; and
* mandatory population control and coercion of other
forms, such as withholding disaster and food aid unless an LDC implements
population control programs.
NSSM-200 also specifically declared that the United
States was to cover up its population control activities and avoid charges of
imperialism by inducing the United Nations and various non-governmental
organizations—specifically the Pathfinder Fund, the International Planned
Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) and the Population Council—to do its dirty work.
This document,
which is completely devoid of morality or ethics, has directly and inevitably
encouraged atrocities and massive human rights violations in dozens of the
nations of the world. Just three examples are shown below.
Peru.
During the years 1995 to 1997, nearly a quarter of a million Peruvian women
were sterilized as part of a program to fulfill then-president Alberto
Fujimori’s family planning goals. Although this campaign was called the
“Voluntary Surgical Contraception Campaign,” many of these procedures were
obviously coerced. In fact, women whose underweight children were on government
food programs were threatened with the withholding of this food if they refused
to be sterilized, and others were kidnapped from their families and forcibly
sterilized.
China.
For many years, the United States government has funded the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA). One of the main targets of UNFPA money is the People’s
Republic of China (PRC) and its widely-criticized forced-abortion and family
planning program. According to its own documents, the UNFPA has donated more
than $100 million to China’s population control program; has bought and
custom-designed a $12 million IBM computer complex specifically to monitor the
population program; provided the technical expertise and personnel that trained
thousands of Chinese population control officials; and presented China with a
United Nations award for the “most outstanding population control program.”
Uganda.
Uganda became the first African country to roll back its adult HIV infection
rate, from 21 percent in 1991 to about six percent in 2004, a 70 percent
decrease. The nation accomplished this amazing feat by discouraging condom use
and by changing the behavior of the people. The population control groups could
not allow this success to interfere with their inflexible template, so they
aggressively undermined President Yoweri Museveni’s program. Timothy Wirth,
president of the United Nations Foundation, called this highly effective
program “gross negligence toward humanity.” The United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), Population Services International, CARE
International, and others are pushing condoms as hard as they can in Uganda,
and the HIV infection rate is creeping up once again. This is perhaps the most
egregious example of population control ideology trumping the science of proven
HIV prevention programs.
Outline of the Population Control
Strategy in NSSM-200
NSSM-200 explicitly lays out the detailed strategy by
which the United States government aggressively promotes population control in
developing nations in order to regulate (or have better access to) the natural
resources of these countries.
The following
outline shows the elements of this plan, with actual supporting quotes from
NSSM-200:
The United States needs widespread access to the
mineral resources of less-developed nations (quote shown above).
The smooth flow of resources to the United States
could be jeopardized by LDC government action, labor conflicts, sabotage, or
civil disturbances, which are much more likely if population pressure is a
factor: “These types of frustrations are much less likely under conditions of
slow or zero population growth.”
Young people are much more likely to challenge
imperialism and the world’s power structures, so their numbers should be kept
down as much as possible: “These young people can more readily be persuaded to
attack the legal institutions of the government or real property of the
‘establishment,’ ‘imperialists,’ multinational corporations, or other—often
foreign—influences blamed for their troubles.”
Therefore, the United States must develop a commitment
to population control among key LDC leaders, while bypassing the will of their
people: “The U.S. should encourage LDC leaders to take the lead in advancing
family planning and population stabilization both within multilateral
organizations and through bilateral contacts with other LDCs.”
The critical elements of population control
implementation include:
Identifying the primary targets: “Those countries are:
India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the
Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Colombia.”
Enlisting the aid of as many multilateral population
control organizations as possible in this worldwide project, in order to
deflect criticism and charges of imperialism: “The U.S. will look to the
multilateral agencies, especially the U.N. Fund for Population Activities which
already has projects in over 80 countries to increase population assistance on
a broader basis with increased U.S. contributions.”
Recognizing that “No country has reduced its
population growth without resorting to abortion.”
Designing programs with financial incentives for
countries to increase their abortion, sterilization and contraception-use
rates: “Pay women in the LDCs to have abortions as a method of family planning.
… Similarly, there have been some controversial, but remarkably successful,
experiments in India in which financial incentives, along with other
motivational devices, were used to get large numbers of men to accept
vasectomies.”
Concentrating on “indoctrinating” [NSSM-200’s
language] the children of LDCs with anti-natalist propaganda: “Without
diminishing in any way the effort to reach these adults, the obvious increased
focus of attention should be to change the attitudes of the next generation,
those who are now in elementary school or younger.”
Designing and instigating propaganda programs and
sex-education curricula intended to convince couples to have smaller families,
regardless of social or cultural considerations: “The following areas appear to
contain significant promise in effecting fertility declines, and are discussed
in subsequent sections … concentrating on the education and indoctrination of
the rising generation of children regarding the desirability of smaller family
size.”
Investigating the desirability of mandatory
[NSSM-200’s language] population control programs: “The conclusion of this view
is that mandatory programs may be needed and that we should be considering
these possibilities now.”
Considering using coercion in other forms, such as
withholding disaster and food aid unless a targeted LDC implements population
control programs: “On what basis should such food resources then be provided?
Would food be considered an instrument of national power? Will we be forced to
make choices as to whom we can reasonably assist, and if so, should population
efforts be a criterion for such assistance?”
Throughout the implementation process, the United
States must hide its tracks and disguise its programs as altruistic: “There is
also the danger that some LDC leaders will see developed country pressures for
family planning as a form of economic or racial imperialism; this could well
create a serious backlash. … The U.S. can help to minimize charges of an
imperialist motivation behind its support of population activities by
repeatedly asserting that such support derives from a concern with:
The right of the individual couple to determine freely
and responsibly the number and spacing of children and to have information,
education, and means to do so; and
The fundamental social and economic development of
poor countries in which rapid population growth is both a contributing cause
and a consequence of widespread poverty.”
Point (6) above
cannot be emphasized enough. The motivation for population control is purely
selfish. Therefore, the organizations promoting population control must engage
in a massive program of deception. They must present their programs as
supporting personal freedom, or as concern for the welfare of poor nations.
The Basic Question: Is Population
Control Necessary?
There is growing
awareness that the world “population explosion” is over or, indeed, that it
never actually materialized. When the population scare began in the late 1960s,
the world population was increasing at a rate of more than two percent per
year. It is now increasing at less than one percent per year, and is expected
to stop growing in about the year 2040, barely a generation from now.
NSSM-200
predicted that the population of the world would stabilize at about 10 to 13
billion, with some demographers predicting that the world population would
balloon to as high as 22 billion people. Now we know that the population of the
world will reach about eight billion, and then will begin to decline.
The worldwide
application of the strategies recommended in NSSM-200 has resulted in regional
population growth rates decelerating so fast that they are already causing
severe economic and social problems in Europe, the former Soviet Union, Japan,
Singapore and Hong Kong. Many developing
nations are now aging even more rapidly than the developed world, which
foretells of even more severe problems for their relatively underdeveloped
economies. The developed nations had the opportunity to become rich before
they became old; if a nation becomes old
first, it will never become rich.
From the very beginning, the concept of a “population
explosion” was an ideologically motivated false alarm specifically designed to
allow rich nations to pillage the resources of the poorer nations. The resulting push for population control in LDCs
has borne absolutely no positive fruit in its decades of implementation. In
fact, population control ideologies and programs make it even more difficult to
respond to the impending grave crisis looming in the form of a disastrous
worldwide “population implosion.” It is time to begin urging families to have more
children, not less, if we are to avoid a worldwide demographic catastrophe.
The first step
in such a massive change in policy is, of course, to change our vision and our
values. In order to do this, we must repudiate old ways of thinking and
outmoded ways of accomplishing our objectives.
NSSM-200 represents the worst aspect of the “advanced”
nations meddling in the most intimate affairs of lesser developed nations. It
symbolizes as no other document does the face of the “ugly American.” It
advocates violating the most precious freedoms and autonomy of the individual
through coercive family planning programs.
NSSM-200 does not emphasize the rights or welfare of
individuals or of nations, just the “right” of the United States to have
unfettered access to the natural resources of developing nations. The United States and the other nations of the
developed world, as well as ideologically motivated population control NGOs,
should be supporting and guiding authentic economic development that allows the
people of each nation to use their resources for their own benefit, thereby
leading to an enhancement of human rights worldwide and healthier economies for
all.
No human
relationships are closer or more intimate than those found in the family. Yet
the “developed” world has spent more than 45 billion dollars just since 1990
attempting to control the number of children born to families in developing
nations through the widespread imposition of abortion, sterilization and birth
control under the umbrella terms “family planning services” and “reproductive
health.”
All that the
tens of billions of dollars of population control expenditures have
accomplished is to make hundreds of millions of large poor families into small
poor families. If this massive amount of money had instead been put to the
service of authentic economic development—better schools, drinking water,
roads, health care—hundreds of millions of people would be living much better
lives now.
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