"After World War II, population control shifted from being primarily the concern of nations to become an international movement albeit largely dictated by the goals of the United States, other western countries, and new international bodies such as the United Nations. Under the aegis of organizations such as the Population Council, Population Reference Bureau, and Planned Parenthood, an ideal replacement model of 2.1 children per couple was promoted around the globe. [...] However, population control had nefarious effects around the world, as it supported continued and in some cases expanded sterilization programs, as well as the launching of tubal ligation and vasectomy campaigns targeted at certain populations in places including India, Puerto Rico, and Indonesia. The publication of Paul Erlich’s The Population Bomb in 1968, a dramatic call to arms that urged implementation of population control policies including sterilization especially in developing countries such as India, increased awareness as well as heightened rhetoric around global population trends. Even with growing awareness of the human rights violations associated with coercive population control, population control policies have retained a great deal of staying power. In some instances, for example, in Peru in the 1990s when approximately 300,000 indigenous women and men were sterilized as part of a governmental program, international aid organizations, feminist groups, and according to some accounts, United Nations programs, supported this campaign as a vehicle for expanded reproductive health services for poor Peruvians. One arena of population control that continues to produce angst is the long association of the environmental movement with population control goals." (Alexandra Stern, 29. April 2014: Population control Eintrag auf Eugenics Archive).
„Fast alle großen Organisationen haben ‚Familienplanung‘ mittlerweile aus ihren Selbstdarstellungen gestrichen und durch Begriffe aus dem Bereich der ‚reproduktiven Gesundheit‘ ersetzt.“ (Elisabeth Aufhauser, Rosa Diketmüller: Überbevölkerung Macht Armut (PDF; 0,1 MB). In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, XVII, 1/2001, S. 56).
