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FRONT ROYAL, VA, April 8, 2004 (PRI/LifeSiteNews.com) – In its current Weekly Report, the Population Research Institute (PRI) warns that, even though the rate of world population growth is in rapid decline, and mortality rates throughout the developing world are at an all-time high, USAID is still advocating more family planning.  A new report by the U.S. Census Bureau states, “The slowdown in the growth of the world’s population can be traced primarily to declines in fertility. Alarmingly, says PRI, the bureau predicts that the level of fertility for the world as a whole will drop below replacement level by 2050.  Part of the reason for the decline in population growth is that 20 million people have died of AIDS and, “Barring some major breakthrough,” the forty million people worldwide who are now living with HIV are expected to die within the next 10 years.

The Census Bureau report claims that over 100 million women in the world today have an “unmet need” for contraception. How can the U.S. Census Bureau make this claim, exclaims PRI, given the greater unmet need for HIV/AIDS prevention and basic life-saving aid? The answer to this is that the Bureau for Global Health of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has contributed largely to this report.  The pro-life population research organization emphasizes that many developed countries in the world today are already facing severe economic and societal challenges because of under-population. And many developing nations will likely never develop before absolute population decline strikes hard, due to pressures to increase contraceptive use and lower fertility in the face of record-high mortality rates. By 2050, the Census Bureau predicts, the global fertility rate will be below replacement.  When this happens, says PRI, population collapse is imminent. Social and economic collapse will follow.  The Weekly Report calls on the U.S. government to stop spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars each year on programs designed to lower the number of babies born even further. The U.S. government must abandon its thirty-year effort to contracept and sterilize the world.  USAID’s Office of Population must be shut down. And all population monies must be shifted to pro-natal programs. Otherwise the looming threat of global depopulation will become a devastating reality.  PRI concludes, that it’s time for the population control movement to call off the dogs. The population explosion it predicted never happened.”

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