Quote: "What do we mean by eugenics? This term is used very loosely and often wrongly in discussion today. Defined properly, eugenics is the view that society can be improved through the manipulation of genetic inheritance, and that social problems can be resolved biologically, largely through the control and shaping of human reproduction."

Quote: UK Feminist Ann Furedi wrote this and it was posted on the pro-choice forum. This is an excerpt:

"It is sometimes argued that women are encouraged to abort abnormal pregnancies by a medical profession that values the lives of normal children above the lives of those with disability and it is the case that some members of the medical profession see abortion on grounds of fetal abnormality in the context of preventing an illness. There is often an assumption that it would be in the interests of public health for there to be fewer babies born with conditions such spina bifida or Down's syndrome. Some people find this objectionable, but it could be argued that such objections are irrational. In general, we can agree that it is better for babies to be healthy than ill, without implying that women should be forced to abort unhealthy fetuses or suggesting that the lives of unhealthy babies are of less value than their healthy brothers and sisters.

She goes on about the right of women to abort for any and all reasons and concludes the article this way, "In conclusion, abortion for fetal abnormality is not eugenic, unethical or immoral. It is simply one form of abortion. If we respect women's autonomy and their right to make decisions according to their conscience then we can argue that the abortion law should be amended to allow women to end pregnancies at whatever stage they see fit, without having to provide a reason for doing so. At no stage should we tolerate any compromise on the limited access to abortion that is presently legal, and we should reject any attempt to reduce women's access to abortion for abnormality.."

Quote: "I speak as someone who has long been active in the international women's health movement. Since 1984, I've been fighting mainly against population-control programs, but from a pro-choice, feminist perspective. A lot of people in the United States have a hard time understanding this, how someone can be both pro-choice and anti-population control."

Hartmann states point to the terminology change from the word population "control" to "Stabilization" she states, "The population-control community thought the feminists might be a possible ally. At the same time, there were reformers moving into agencies dealing with population issues, women whose careers were in family planning, who had a broader vision of reproductive health, and who were transforming these institutions from the inside. However, as part of this consensus position, one had to accept that population stabilization was central to development. "Stabilization" was the new rhetoric for "control."

Referring to the UN Cairo document she states, " I did not want to endorse the population "stabilization" part of the Cairo consensus, because I thought it was dangerous a way of legitimizing population control again, this time using liberal feminist language."

She says, "I guess what faces us today is how to inject fresh analysis and energy into the movement. This is especially important for people in the women's movement in the United States, who often don't come to these conferences. They may come out of a reproductive rights background, and there's nothing wrong with that, but they don't necessarily have the background in political economy or other issues. It's so easy to take a single-issue approach, and not look at race and poverty issues, even within the United States"

(Betsy Hartmann is Director of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, and a co-coordinator of the feminist network Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment. She is a longtime activist and writer on women's health. )

Quote: "You are probably familiar with the sterilization scandal that happened recently in Peru, where indigenous women were targeted by the population-control program and many women were sterilized against their will and unsafely. What's interesting is that a lot of this was first exposed by church groups and not by the women's movement."( Betsy Hartmann is Director of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, and a co-coordinator of the feminist network Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment. )

Quote: "I'm seeing the rhetoric shift within the population world to the issue of environmental security, that environmental degradation is a national-security threat, and population is part of the pressure being put on the environment. Some of the population control people seem to be endorsing this, and environmental activists as well."

Quote: In Sterilization and Abortion by Betsy Hartmann she says that John P. Robin 1968 Ford Foundation, Representative for East and Central Africa, stated, "The world has accepted compulsory vaccination against small-pox, which is surely an invasion of the body.... And the state so claims control of the body of its male citizens that it compels them to accept military service, and of the bodies of its children -- male and female -- as to force their attendance at school.... In this context I do not think that sterilization after an allowable number of births is so revolutionary a restriction on personal freedom as it may first appear to be. I think it is obvious that we should help to discover and to support any system of incentives which would significantly reduce the birth rate in the countries which are in a population crisis."

Quote: "Fertility is an environmental issue. That's why I try to get as many people sterilized as are in my way!"

Quote: America "can't take all the people in the world,We need to help nations that can subsist and let others wither on the vine."

Quote: "We are the super polluters, the super consumers, and we are the ones who are basically responsible for destroying this world."

Quote: Marilee Hanson, daughter of abortionist Mildren Hanson like China’s One Child policy, according to news reports . Marilee made the argument that, "Just because someone perverts the policy doesn't mean you dump the whole policy. We have to look at the big picture."

Her mother, abortionist Mildren Hanson concurs. "I don't think it's incongruous to be a feminist and to approve of the Chinese family planning policy. They're looking at having enough food to feed the children - "

Quote: described the one-child policy as "among the most intelligent in the world ..."

Quote: "I was kept confined to one of two rooms, and even had to ask permission to go to the bathroom. Apart from the psychological torment, they also physically abused me. They beat me on several occasions, and a police officer surnamed Bai with badge number 039351 knelt on my chest and grabbed me around the neck, saying he would cause the blood to flood my brain so that cause of death could not be determined." described human rights campaigner Mao Hengfeng was subjected to physical and mental abuse while detained for more than a month for her participation in a hunger strike in mid-February in support of another human rights advocate. Hengfeng, was previously detained and tortured by authorities after protesting a forced abortion which occurred 16 years ago.

Quote: Quinacrine

Below is an updated list of endorsements to the November, 1999 letter raising concerns about Planned Parenthood Federation of America PPFA's role in the development of experimental quinacrine sterilization.

"We are deeply troubled by the proposal that the PPFA (Planned Parenthood Federation of America) go forward in the near future with clinical trials of quinacrine, a sclerosing agent that has been used to perform a type of chemical sterilization in women. Although unapproved by any drug regulating authority in the world for use as a means of sterilization, quinacrine has been used unethically on over 100,000 women in about 12 countries. Many of these women have had no understanding of the experimental nature of this use of quinacrine, and, in some cases, they did not even understand that sterilization was being performed." To view endorsements go to: http://www.overpopulation.org/quinacrine_Nov99.html

Quote: Portions of a 1999 letter sent to PPFA, "Given the widespread problems we have seen worldwide with disregard for women's dignity and basic right to information, it is unwise to pursue yet another method that so easily lends itself to abuse and misuse in this imperfect world we live in."

Quote: "The planet is overpopulated. The population keeps growing. Overpopulation is our biggest threat to this planet and will be the issue of the 21st century. The number 1 environmental issue facing mankind is overpopulation. There's no point in talking about global warming, endangered species, the rainforests, acid rain, or other environmental problems without dealing with overpopulation first. And it seems logical to me that in looking for solutions to global population problems, the place to start is to terminate unwanted pregnancies. I am therefore for making it possible for anyone who wants an abortion to be able to get one."

Quote: "We're already overpopulated for the services we have available, and that's just the U.S. What are the alternatives for China? What are the alternatives for Bangladesh? Let's take some of the ultra-conservatives and put them in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and say, "Okay, now find yourself a meal.' "

Quote: "Sarah and I have been discussing the notion of our setting up a non-profit corporation to license and distribute RU-486. Being non-profit would eliminate the need for products liability insurance, which is a major hang-up for a company thinking about marketing a new drug. It’s possible that such an endeavor would be a vehicle for a number of birth control efforts. Something's got to be done very quickly. 26 Million food stamp recipients is more than the economy can stand."

Quote: " You can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country. No, I'm not advocating some sort of mass extinction of these unfortunate people, Crime, drugs and disease are already doing that. The problem is that their numbers are not only replaced but increased by the birth of millions of babies to people who can't afford to have babies. There, I've said it. It's what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and well...Republican."

Quote: "I am not proposing that you send federal agents armed with Depro-Provera dart guns to the ghetto. You should use persuasion rather than coercion. You and Hillary are a perfect example...If Ronald Reagan could use the media to convince the American public that a trillion dollars borrowed money needed to be spent to combat the "Evil Empire”, then you ought to be able to persuade people to only have children when they can afford them... "

He also suggested, "You will have to enlist the aid of sports and entertainment stars to counteract the propaganda spread by church officials..."

Quote: "Our survival depends upon our developing a population where everyone contributes. We don't need more cannon fodder. We don't need more parishioners. We don't need more cheap labor. We don't need more poor babies."

And also says, " P.S. I was co-counsel in Roe V. Wade, have sired zero children and one fetus, the abortion of which was recently recounted by my ex-wife in her book, 'A Question of Choice.' I had a vasectomy in 1969 and have never had one moment of regret."

Quote: "Quinacrine is essential to population-growth control.Overpopulation is a gravely serious national security issue, even more serious than the nuclear threat." Immigrants would also be the target population for quinacrine. Mumford hopes quinacrine will help reduce the growth of immigrant populations in the United States which he fears will cause an "explosion in human numbers ... [that] ... will dominate our lives." Mumford and Kessel had a booth promoting quinacrine at the National Abortion Federation conference in Atlanta in 1999.

Quote: Quinacrine

Below is excerpts to the November, 1999 letter raising concerns about PPFA's role in the development of experimental quinacrine sterilization.

The drug has primarily been promoted by two US population control extremists, Stephen Mumford and Elton Kessel, with substantial financial backing from foundations and individuals linked to conservative anti-immigrant organizations. These two individuals often portray those who oppose quinacrine as "anti-choice" and/or in "collusion" with the Vatican. Along with many others who oppose quinacrine, we are strongly pro-choice and have long been actively engaged in expanding access to safe and legal abortion.

Quote: "Look at the population of the world. Where's it going to end? It's going to end with people fighting for food."

Quote: In a May 2000 article, Should the U.S. Fund Family Planning Abroad? by John Barry,

Barry says, "Anti-abortion activists consider the UN's programs a misappropriation of funds which proselytizes birth control and abortion. Since 1995 the international family planning budget has been cut each year by Congress...

And Barry goes on to state, "On One Hand the UNFPA and other family planning organizations are telling us all that the world would be a little bit better if there weren't so many poor people. That's a little like saying New York City would be better if there weren't so many bums.It diverts attention away from the essential injustice of the 20th century: we have more than enough resources to feed everyone, and we have the technology to distribute them. The anti-overpopulation activists who advocate sterilization and birth control in "less desirable" countries are avoiding the uncomfortable truth: there'd be room enough for all of us, if some of us stopped consuming so much. Instead of spending money to limit the population in less developed countries, we would be better advised to help those who are now living by reigning in our own excesses and offering our assistance."

Barry contents that, "by educating women and giving them a role in planning families, the UNFPA and other family-planning organizations are offering an alternative to unsafe abortion."

Quote: "Many believe that the earth is fast reaching it's 'carrying capacity'. They don't think that reduction in population growth is happening fast enough. The less severe methods recommended are incentives and disincentives, which include: eliminating tax breaks or welfare caps for more than two children, and trying to socially ostracize people for having more than two children."

Quote: "The major reason for China's rising sex ratio is the entrenched concept of 'boys are better than girls'. The direct reason is the abuse of B-ultrasound technology. Does the imbalance have something to do with family planning? Yes, but there is no direct connection."