Population
Sir,—Western science has reduced mortality rates in the under-developed countries threatened, by famine and malnutrition. The social motivations for population control are fast emerging from latency. In tampering with natural selection factors and contributing to unprecedented population growth. Western science has incurred the obligation of exporting effective mass contraceptive techniques to these, countries. Abstention from this obligation on pseudo-moral grounds is inconsistent as there is precious little morality in aiding people to descend to sub-human levels of consumption and privileges. It is our hope that future historians of Afro-Asia and Latin America will have no cause to indict Western science and its conscience for false piety concealing an ugly crime of negligence.—Yours, etc, 59 b. December 18, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 20
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