Anti-Life Mentality Involves Gross Violation of Rights
Pro-Life News, Spring, 1991, Pg 3.
Attacks against human life throughout the world have never been so strong or so coordinated, Australian Senator Brian Harradine told the annual conference of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child in New Zealand.
The Independent Senator from Tasmania is chairman of the Parliamentary Pro-Life Group in Federal Parliament.
He said population controllers and eugenicists are attempting to impose, on developed and less developed countries alike, an anti-life mentality which involves "gross violations of human rights".
The rights under threat, he suggested, include the right of married couples to "freely and responsibly make decisions affecting their intimate relations and the numbers of their children."
Senator Harradine said the 1960’s alarmism of Dr Paul Ehrlich is now being recycled, despite his population and resource equations being proved wrong.
Senator Brian Harradine (Tasmania)Much of the "dictatorial theme adopted by the international population control bureaucrats" echoes Dr Ehrlich’s 1968 declaration that "Coercion is a good cause. We must be relentless in pushing for population control around the world. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions."
But the last 20 years have shown that "population control is a bitter pill to swallow," the Senator said. So today’s population control lobby is cloaking its agenda with a reassuring blanket of High-sounding principles.
Senator Harradine said the population control lobby is attempting to use worldwide environmental concern for its own agenda - making the fertility of poor women in developing countries "the scapegoat for a range of problems from environmental damage to famine, the primary causes of which are war, political instability and man’s inhumanity to man."