Yeah that's the usual schtick from the extremists, anything but unlimited population growth constitutes eugenics. Read Lester Brown's Gristmill piece for illumination into these dark political corners.
This is the charge leveled from both right and left who oppose family planning and reproductive rights. From the right religious dogma motivated by the unending growth formula, based on nationalistic, ethnic, and religious (but usually corporatist) motives.
They want to out populate the "evildoers" and "infidels". Their religious warriors are supposed to beat back the inhuman hordes who don't believe in their particular God (and/or "free" market economic model).
From the left, it is the evil of capitalism that is at fault for family planning. Poor populations must swell to overthrow the evil overlords. The capitalist overlords are behind the "neutering".
The way to defeat both sides who oppose women's reproductive (and all other rights) is evidently to present examples of the personal family success of those who engage in family planning through popular media, according to what Lester has discovered. He writes:
A well-written soap opera can have a profound short-term effect on population growth. It costs relatively little and can proceed even while formal educational systems are being expanded.
The power of this approach was pioneered by Miguel Sabido, a vice president of Televisa, Mexico's national television network, with a series of soap opera segments on illiteracy. The day after one of his soap opera characters visited a literacy office wanting to learn how to read and write, a quarter-million people showed up at these offices in Mexico City. Eventually 840,000 Mexicans enrolled in literacy courses after watching the series. Sabido dealt with contraception in another soap opera, and within a decade this drama series helped reduce Mexico's birth rate by 34 percent.
The material girl says "Papa Don't Preach" and Sarah the Wolf killer encourages teens to get pregnant through family example. Hollywood teen stars make underage pregnancy look glamorous, the unlimited material world purveyors tell kids to grab that lottery ticket and go for it. Maybe you'll be the next Hannah Montana. Goop on that makeup and start having unprotected sex.
Meanwhile in Iran and Mexico the popular media presents "soap opera"/novella parables that promote women's reproductive (and all other) rights? And it's working? Who knew? Thanks Lester!
Barack, you have got the wrong advisors if Brown, Lovins, Romm, and other voices of reason are not among them. Could someone get Obama to check his blackberry by sending this message? If he has enough spare time left after all the prayers? Hehey.
