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based on science and technology, efficiency, acquisition, and domination
through rationality," raved the commission's report. "The exercise of these
same values now contain [sic] the potential for the destruction of our
humanity. Man is losing that balance with nature which is an essential
condition of human existence."
The commission's principal conclusion was that "there are no substantial
benefits to be gained from continued population growth," Chairman
Rockefeller explained to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The
commission made a host of recommendations to curb both population expansion
and economic growth. These included: liberalizing laws restricting abortion
and sterilization; having the government fund abortions; and providing
birth control to teenagers. The commission had a profound impact on
American attitudes toward the population issue, and helped accelerate the
plunge into outright genocide. Commission Executive Director Charles
Westoff wrote in 1975 that the group "represented an important effort by an
advanced country to develop a national population policy -- the basic
thrust of which was to slow growth in order to maximize the 'quality of
life.'|"
The collapse of the traditional family-centered form of society during the
1970s and 1980s was but one consequence of such recommendations. It also is
widely acknowledged that the commission Bush fought so long and so hard to
create broke down the last barriers to legalized abortion on demand.
Indeed, just one year after the commission's final report was issued, the
Supreme Court delivered the Roe v. Wade decision which did just that.
Aware that many blacks and other minorities had noticed that the population
control movement was a genocide program aimed at reducing their numbers,
the commission went out of its way to cover its real intent by stipulating
that all races should cut back on their birth rates. But the racist animus
of their conclusions could not be hidden. Commission Executive Director
Westoff, who owed his job and his funding to Bush, gave a hint of this in a
book he had written in 1966, before joining the commission staff, which was
entitled "From Now to Zero", and in which he bemoaned the fact that the
black fertility rate was so much higher than the white.
The population control or zero population growth movement, which grew
rapidly in the late 1960s thanks to free media exposure and foundation
grants for a stream of pseudoscientific propaganda about the alleged
"population bomb" and the "limits to growth," was a continuation of the old
prewar, protofascist eugenics movement, which had been forced to go into
temporary eclipse when the world recoiled in horror at the atrocities
committed by the Nazis in the name of eugenics. By the mid-1960s, the same
old crackpot eugenicists had resurrected themselves as the
population-control and environmentalist movement. Planned Parenthood was a
perfect example of the transmogrification. Now, instead of demanding the
sterilization of the inferior races, the newly-packaged eugenicists talked
about the population bomb, giving the poor "equal access" to birth contol,
and "freedom of choice."
But nothing had substantively changed -- including the use of coercion.
While Bush and other advocates of government "family planning" programs
insisted these were strictly voluntary, the reality was far different. By
the mid-1970s, the number of involun tary sterilizations carried out by
programs which Bush helped bring into being, had reached huge proportions.
Within the black and minority communities, where most of the sterilizations
were being done, protests arose which culminated in litigation at the
federal level.
In his 1974 ruling on this suit, Federal District Judge Gerhard Gesell
found that, "Over the last few years, an estimated 100,000 to 150,000
low-income persons have been sterilized annually under federally funded
programs. Although Congress has been insistent that all family planning
programs function on a purely voluntary basis," Judge Gesell wrote, "there
is uncontroverted evidence ... that an indefinite number of poor people
have been improperly coerced into accepting a sterilization operation under
the threat that various federally supported welfare benefits would be
withdrawn unless they submitted to irreversible sterilization." Gesell
concluded from the evidence that the "dividing line between family planning
and eugenics is murky."
As we have seen, George Bush inherited his obsession with population
control and racial "down-breeding" from his father, Prescott, who staunchly
supported Planned Parenthood dating back at least to the 1940s. In fact,
Prescott's affiliation with Margaret Sanger's organization cost him the
Senate race in 1950, as we have seen, a defeat his son has always blamed on
the Catholic Church, and which is at the root of George's lifelong vendetta
against the Papacy.
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