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EXPLOSION OR BACKFIRE?
The Bulletin re-prints the
complete Statement issued at the
recent Washington meeting of
the Catholic Bishops of the
United States.
For the past several years a
campaign of propaganda has
been gaining momentum to in
fluence international, national,
and personal opinion in favor
of birth prevention programs.
The vehicle for this propaganda,
is the recently coined terror
technique phrase, “population
explosion.” The phrase, indeed,
alerts all to the attention that
must be given to population
pressures, but it also provides
a smoke screen behind which a
moral evil may be foisted on
the public and for obscuring the
many factors that must be con
sidered in this vital question.
More alarming is the present
attempt of some representatives
of Christian bodies who endeav
or to elaborate the plan into a;
theological doctrine which en
visages artificial birth preven
tion within the married state
as the "will of God." Strangely
too, simply because of these ef
forts and with callous disregard
of the thinking of hundreds of
millions of Christians and oth
ers who reject the position,
some international and national
figures have made the state
ment that artificial birth pre
vention within the married state
is gradually becoming accept
able even in the Catholic
Church. This is simply not true.
The perennial teaching of the
Catholic Church has distin
guished artificial birth preven-
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tion, which is a frustration of
the marital act, from other
forms of control of birth which
are morally permissable. Meth
od alone, however, is not the
only question involved. Equally
important is the sincere and
objective examination of the
motives and intentions of the.
couples involved; in view of
the nature of the marriage con
tract itself. As long as due rec
ognition is not given to these
fundamental questions, there
can be no genuine understand
ing of the problem.
At the present time, too, there
is abundant evidence of a sys
tematic, concerted effort to con
vince United States’ public
opinion, legislators and policy
makers that United States na
tional agencies, as well as inter
national bodies, should provide
with public funds and support,
assistance in promoting artifi
cial birth prevention for eco
nomically underdeveloped coun
tries. The alleged purpose, as
already remarked is to prevent
a hypotetical “population ex
plosion.” Experts, however,
have not yet reached agreement
on the exact meaning of this
phrase. It is still a hypothesis
that must stand the test of
science. Yet, pessimistic popula
tion predictors seizing on the
popular acceptance of the phrase,
take little account of economic,
social and cultural factors and
changes. Morever, it would
seem that if the predictors of
population explosion wish to
avail themselves of the right
to fortell population increases,
they must concede the right to
predict production increases of
food as well as of employment
and educational opportunities.
The position of United States
Catholics to the growing and
needy population of the world
is a realistic one which is
grounded in the natural law
(which, it should be made clear,
is not the law of the jungle, as
sometimes erroneously sup
posed) and in respect for the
human person, his origin, free
dom, responsibility and des-
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tiny. They believe that the
goods of the earth were created
by God for the use of all men
and that men should not be
arbitrarily tailored to fit a nig
gling and static image of what
they are entitled to, as conceiv
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United States Catholics be
lieve that the promotion of arti
ficial birth prevention is a
morally, humanly, phychologi-
cally and politically disastrous
approach to the population prob
lem. Not only is such an ap
proach ineffective in its own
aims, but it spurns the basis of
the real solution, sustained ef
fort in a sense of human soli
darity. Catholics are prepared
to dedicate themselves to this
effort, already so promisingly
initiated in national and inter
national circles. They will not,
however, support any public
assistance, either at home or
abroad, to promote artificial
birth prevention, abortion or
sterilization whether through di
rect aid or by means of inter
national organizations.
The fundamental reason for
this position is the well con
sidered objection to promoting a
moral evil—an objection not
founded solely on any typically
or exclusively Catholic doc
trine, but on the natural law
and on basic ethical considera
tions. However, quite apart
from the moral issue, there are
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other cogent reasons, why Ca
tholics would not wish to see
any official support or even
favor given such specious
methods of “assistance.”
Social. Man himself is the
most valuable productive agent.
Therefore, economic develop
ment and progress are best pro
moted by creating conditions
favorable to his highest devel
opment. Such progress implies
discipline, self-control and the
disposition to postpone present
satisfactions for future gains.
The widespread use of contra
ceptives would hinder rather
than promote the acquisition of
these qualities needed for the
social and economic changes in
underdeveloped countries.
Immigration. Immigration and
emigration—even within the
same country—have their role
to play in solving the popula
tion problem. It has been said
that immigration to other coun
tries, is no ultimate solution be
cause of difficulties of absorbing
population into other economies.
But it is a matter of record
that migration has helped as a
solution. Sixty million people
migrated successfully from Eu
rope to the Americas in the last
150 years. When the nomadic
Indians roamed the uncultiva
ted plains of North America be
fore the coming of these immi
grants, the entire country with
its estimated Indian population
of only 500,000 and its shortage
of food, would have been re
garded as “overpopulated” ac
cording to the norms of the ex
ponents of Planned Parenthood.
Yet, the same plains today are
being retired into a “land bank”
because they are overproductive
in a land of 175 millions. It is,
therefore, apparent that to
speak of a population exploision
in the United States in these
circumstances is the sheerest
kind of nonsense.
Political and Psychological.
The Soviets in their wooing of
economically underdeveloped
countries do not press artificial
birth prevention propaganda on
them as, a remedy for their ills.
Rather they allure them into
the communist orbit by.offering
education, loans, technical
assistance and trade, and they
boast that their economic sys-
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tem is able to use human beings
in constructive work and to
meet all their needs. The Rus
sian delegate to the relatively
recent meeting of the United
Nations Economic Commission
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claimed, “The key to progress
does not lie in a limitation of
population through artificial re
duction of the birth rate, but
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nomic backwardness of these
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phets of “population explosion”
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tiveness in these areas.
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of population pressure, but they
do deplore the studious omis
sion of adequate reference to
the role of modern agriculture in
food production. The “popula
tion explosion” alarmists do not
place in proper focus the idea
of increasing the acreage or the
acreage yield to meet the food
demands of an increasing popu
lation. By hysterical terrorism
and bland misrepresentation of
data they dismiss these ideas as
requiring too much time for the
development of extensive edu
cation and new distribution
methods and for the elimination
of apathy, greed and supersti
tion. Such arguments merely
beg the question, for the imple
mentation of their own pro
gram demands the fulfillment
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to dawn on them that in a
chronic condition where we
have more people than food, the
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logical answer would be, not
to decrease the number of peo
ple but to increase the food
supply which is almost un
limited in potential.
We make these observations
to direct attention to the very
real problem of population pres
sures. Such remarks are not in
tended to exhaust this complex
subject, nor to discourage demo
graphers, economics, agricul
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scientists in their endeavors to
solve the problem. Rather our
intention is to reaffirm the posi
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the only true solutions are those
that are morally acceptable un
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Never should we allow the
unilateral "guesstimates" of spe
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terrorize the United States into
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