Muslim religious leaders mandate contraceptive education for marriage licence
NEW YORK, January 7, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The environmentalist group Earth Policy Institute (EPI), whose prominent founder and President, Lester. R. Brown, was also the founder and 26-year president of the Worldwatch Institute, has lauded Iran’s plummeting birth rate. In a December 28 release, entitled, “Iran’s Birth Rate Plummeting at Record Pace: Success Provides a Model for Other Developing Countries,” EPI gleefully reports that “Iran’s population growth rate dropped from an all-time high of 3.2 percent in 1986 to just 1.2 percent in 2001, one of the fastest drops ever recorded.”
EPI reports that from 1986 to 2001, Iran’s total fertility-the average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime-plummeted from seven to less than three. EPI praises the coercive nature of Iran’s mandated contraception propaganda. Iran is the only country in the world that requires both men and women to take a class on modern contraception before receiving a marriage license. This is very unexpected in a Muslim nation because of the usual strong support among Muslims for large families. Muslim nations have been at the forefront along with the Vatican and a few other family-friendly nations in opposing the UN’s sexual liberation, contraception and abortion policies.
Under the current president, Mohammad Khatami, the government maintains a strong anti-natalist policy. EPI claims “Religious leaders have become involved with the crusade for smaller families, citing them as a social responsibility in their weekly sermons. They also have issued fatwas, religious edicts with the strength of court orders, that permit and encourage the use of all types of contraception, including permanent male and female sterilization-a first among Muslim countries.” This appears to follow a policy long ago promoted by racist and eugenicist Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. Sanger advocated that black religious leaders be hired to promote acceptance of birth contol and thus lower the birth rate of the “inferior” black race.
See the EPI release at: https://www.earth-policy.org/Success/SS1.htm
See Planned Parenthood using Religion to Promote Abortion (and birth control) https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/may/990519.html#2
Top UN Official Tries to Split Muslims and Christians on Abortion https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/june/990625.html#1
Indonesia Gets Morning-After-Pill After Islamic Group Concedes to UN https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/dec/001207.html#1