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of domestic and international family planning, he had aggressively sought
to be its champion.... As a member of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep.
Bush shepherded the first major breakthrough in domestic family planning
legislation in 1967," and "later co-authored the legislation commonly known
as Title X, which created the first federal family planning program...."
"On the international front," Mathews wrote, Bush "recommended that the
U.S. support the United Nations Population Fund.... He urged, in the
strongest words, that the U.S. and European countries make modern
contraceptives available 'on a massive scale,' to all those around the
world who wanted them."
Bush belonged to a small group of congressmen who successfully conspired to
force a profound shift in the official U.S. attitude and policy toward
population expansion. Embracing the "limits to growth" ideology with a
vengeance, Bush and his coterie, which included such ultraliberal Democrats
as then-Senator Walter Mondale (Minn.) and Rep. James Scheuer (N.Y.),
labored to enact legislation which institutionalized population control as
U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
Bush began his Malthusian activism in the House in 1968, the year that Pope
Paul VI issued his enyclical "Humanae Vitae," with its prophetic warning of
the danger of coercion by governments for the purpose of population
control. The Pope wrote: "Let it be considered also that a dangerous weapon
would be placed in the hands of those public authorities who place no heed
of moral exigencies.... Who will stop rulers from favoring, from even
imposing upon their people, the method of contraception which they judge to
be most efficacious?" For poorer countries with a high population rate, the
encyclical identified the only rational and humane policy: "No solution to
these difficulties is acceptable which does violence to man's essential
dignity.... The only possible solution ... is one which envisages the
social and economic progress both of individuals and of the whole of human
society...."
This was a direct challenge to the cultural paradigm transformation which
Bush and other exponents of the oligarchical world outlook were promoting.
Not for the first time nor for the last, Bush issued a direct attack on the
Holy See. Just days after "Humanae Vitae" was issued, Bush declared: "I
have decided to give my vigorous support for population control in both the
United States and the world." He continued, "For those of us who who feel
so strongly on this issue, the recent enyclical was most discouraging."
Population Control Leader
During his four years in Congress, Bush not only introduced key pieces of
legislation to enforce population control both at home and abroad. He also
continuously introduced into the congressional debate reams of propaganda
about the threat of population growth and the inferiority of blacks, and he
set up a special Republican task force which functioned as a forum for the
most rabid Malthusian ideologues.
"Bush was really out front on the population issue," a population-control
activist recently said of this period of 1967-71. "He was saying things
that even we were reluctant to talk about publicly."
Bush's open public advocacy of government measures tending towards zero
population growth was a radical departure from the policies built into the
federal bureaucracy up until that time. The climate of opinion just a few
years earlier, in December 1959, is illustrated by the comments of
President Eisenhower, who had said, "birth control is not our business. I
cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper
political or governmental activity . .. or responsibility."
As a congressman, Bush played an absolutely pivotal role in this shift.
Shortly after arriving in Washington, he teamed up with fellow Republican
Herman Schneebeli to offer a series of amendments to the Social Security
Act to place priority emphasis on what was euphemistically called "family
planning services." The avowed goal was to reduce the number of children
born to women on welfare.
Bush's and Schneebeli's amendments reflected the Malthusian-genocidalist
views of Dr. Alan Guttmacher, then president of Planned Parenthood, and a
protege of its founder, Margaret Sanger. In the years before the grisly
outcome of the Nazi cult of race science and eugenics had inhibited public
calls for defense of the "gene pool," Sanger had demanded the weeding out
of the "unfit" and the "inferior races," and had campaigned vigorously for
sterilization, infanticide and abortion, in the name of "race betterment."
Although Planned Parenthood was forced, during the fascist era and
immediately thereafter, to tone down Sanger's racist rhetoric from "race
betterment" to "family planning" for the benefit of the poor and blacks,
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