Americans have defeated totalitarian enemies before, and we can do it again. But we can do so only if we put our intelligence to good use—and our faith as well.
The specter of runaway population growth still terrifies India’s elites, and the legacy of the emergency period—population reduction by any means necessary—lives on in modern India.
While India’s national government pays lip-service to human rights, its national government chronically ignores or endorses local population control programs.
Population policies need to be based on facts, not hysteria and bad science. Let’s put out the fire and end the myths that pave the way for human rights abuses.