As the White House looks at policy options to reverse the U.S. birth rate decline and incentivize more couples to have children, nobody seems to be talking about the fact that the U.S. has been funding domestic population control programs for decades now.
These programs have been disguised under the name of “family planning” and are a key cause for why America is facing a birth rate problem.
The U.S. began funding population control under President Lyndon B. Johnson when he signed into law the Economic Opportunity Act—the centerpiece of the catastrophic so-called Great Society.
He and the Democrat-controlled Congress included a provision to award federal grants to counter the “population explosion” that skyrocketed in the aftermath of World War II (i.e., the baby boom generation), which they viewed as a threat. Johnson admitted as much and stated: “[L]ess than five dollars invested in population control [was] worth a hundred dollars invested in economic growth.”
Since then, a multiple number of spinoff government programs have been created under various code names, like “family planning” (most notably), but also “reproductive health care” and “teen pregnancy prevention”—terms much more disarming than “population control.”
The evidence that all this can be blamed for U.S. marriage and birth rate declines and traced back to LBJ’s actions is overwhelming. Between 1935 and the early 1960s, the birth rate was on a consistent, steady upward climb, but then drastically dropped. America went from having 3.5 children born per woman then to less than 2 children per woman today.
The same holds true for marriage decline.
But none of this should come as a shock, especially to anyone who knows how the Great Society has been holistically implemented to socially engineer the nuclear family and pull American culture away from Biblical held beliefs on sexual mores that lead to strong, healthy marriages and families.
Heavily influenced by the ’60s sexual revolution and Marxist philosophies of liberal ruling elites—like Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger (a racist and eugenics advocate who tried to play God and use birth control and abortion to eliminate the “unfit” and black people)—LBJ’s Great Society population control/family planning initiative is a “how to” recipe for making poor lifestyle choices and turn America into a pagan nation where children are born into fatherless homes, if not aborted.
That’s why much of the hundreds of millions of tax dollars that have been directed for so-called family planning type programs flow through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (via Medicaid and the Office of Population Affairs) have landed in the pocketbooks of Planned Parenthood and a cadre of like-minded nongovernment organizations.
Of course, almost all “family planning” funded activity has been strategically targeted at poor, vulnerable women (via Medicaid), but of critical note, also students.
Keep in mind, when secularists fought and won to have prayer removed from public schools—the same era that LBJ’s Great Society was implemented—the Left quickly replaced prayer with sex education courses based on curriculum from “The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States,” founded in 1964 by Dr. Mary Calderone. (No coincidence, she also was affiliated with Planned Parenthood and served on its board and is known to have ties to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, who held perverse beliefs, such as the claim that babies are sexual.)
But on top of the debased sexual propaganda bombarding kids’ minds, students are also steered to health clinics planted directly on school sites or nearby, funded with “family planning” taxpayer money. School-based health clinics provide a way for the Left to go behind parents’ backs and hand out condoms and birth control (including the “morning-after pill”).
So, again, there should be no surprise that birth rates and marriage have declined when the secular left has had free rein over the past several generations to indoctrinate American kids to oppose family values.
Unfortunately, it’s been rare to see Republicans oppose the government’s role in federal family planning programs. In fact, when Speaker Mike Johnson gave Fox News host Shannon Bream an interview following his first election as the House leader, he did not push back when she stated that he would be out of step with American wishes if he opposed federally funded birth control.
But he should have because that narrative is false. Federal family planning programs are rooted in population control—exactly what is espoused by globalist elites. And while defunding Planned Parenthood is a must (as the House of Representatives has voted to do), we should go further and defund everything related to “family planning.”
This will not just save America millions of wasted dollars, but it will help save our nation from this suicidal mission that has been tearing down traditional marriage and the family as an institution.
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