Demographics, Demography Quotes
After the 6 Day War, Israel was in control of the West Bank.
The English census was a complete enumeration then, not a sampling.
This is a question our women must answer; upon their loins depends the future destiny of the nation.
At the beginning of the United States, the Founding Fathers had seen fit not to restrict a woman’s right to birth control and abortion, both of which were prevalent in Colonial America albeit not very reliable or safe. The first efforts to control abortion were in the 1820s and 1830s. Storer was the first anti-abortion activist. His major issue was that abortion diminished America’s fertility rate and with the high fertility of the immigrants, the native Americans would be overwhelmed.
The logic is that communities and areas—even countries have finite resources. Since we have a welfare society in which we will not allow people to starve, society must provide for children whose parents cannot. Therefore, individuals ought not to be allowed to breed beyond their ability to care for the children for if many would do so, the capacity of the community could be overwhelmed. A middle ground is that while the final decision should be left to the individual family, the society ought to educate and persuade members to limit their breeding.
This remarkable quotation shows that this great Southern leader, 15 years before the Civil War, publicly stated that the institution of slavery was doomed to extinction. As such it was not worth worrying about in such issues as new territories of the Union and other more important and long lasting things. This quotation however is not commonly cited.
