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MamaJewel
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And not am I going to only ask them.
I’m going to show them that there was an agenda to curb population growth by federally funding research and access to contraceptives, abortion, and family planning services at expense of research and funding for the aged and early childhood development.
The Report of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future
March 27, 1972
Chapter 16: Organizational Changes
http://www.mnforsustain.org/rockefe...onal_changes.htm#Office of Population Affairs
"In addition to population research, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development houses research programs in aging and early childhood development. Both of these are important fields, requiring significant research efforts, but population research has been growing at a much faster rate than the other two programs. This results in two problems. First, advocates of research in aging and early childhood development believe that population research is being advanced at the expense of their programs. Second, administrators of the Institute have felt it necessary to maintain some balance among its programs. This appears to be at least part of the reason why population research has not been funded at its authorized levels. If all of the funds recommended by this Commission for population research in fiscal year 1973 were approved, it would be funded at a level greater than the other programs combined. It is apparent that the additional large increases recommended by the Commission for ensuing years will be difficult if not impossible to achieve under the present arrangement. All three areas of research —aging, early childhood development, and population research— could benefit from moving the population research program from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
It started with the pro-choice movement to fund family planning services to curb the nation’s population growth. It was done at the expense of children and the aged (two of the country’s most vulnerable populations). I’ll let them know that the pro-lifers aren’t to blame.