{"id":1404792,"date":"2022-03-28T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404792"},"modified":"2022-03-28T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:45:56","slug":"50-years-after-nixon-era-report-pushed-for-abortion-as-population-control-pro-life-leaders-release-declaration-on-a-new-american-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/50-years-after-nixon-era-report-pushed-for-abortion-as-population-control-pro-life-leaders-release-declaration-on-a-new-american-future\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years After Nixon-Era Report Pushed For Abortion As Population Control, Pro-Life Leaders Release \u2018Declaration On A New American Future\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F50-years-after-nixon-era-report-pushed-for-abortion-as-population-control-pro-life-leaders-release-declaration-on-a-new-american-future%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404792&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-10.50.39-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Fifty years after a Nixon-era commission called for zero-population growth in the United States, a coalition of pro-life leaders has released its own \u201cDeclaration on a New American Future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire first obtained the new declaration, which comes on the 50th anniversary of the March 1972 Rockefeller Commission report.<\/p>\n<p>That report was requested by President Richard Nixon and authorized by Congress,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1972\/05\/06\/archives\/president-bars-birth-curb-plans-rejects-panels-proposals-on-eased.html\">recommending<\/a>\u00a0that states expand women\u2019s access to abortion and make contraceptives readily available to teenagers as strategies for controlling population growth and expanding individual freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon rejected the Rockefeller Commission report\u2019s pro-abortion recommendations in May 1972, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1972\/05\/06\/archives\/president-bars-birth-curb-plans-rejects-panels-proposals-on-eased.html\">saying<\/a> that abortion was \u201can unacceptable means of population control\u201d and he did not support \u201cunrestricted abortion policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">\u201cSuch measures would do nothing to preserve and strengthen close family relations,\u201d he said of the contraceptive recommendations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The new pro-life Declaration on a New American Future <a href=\"https:\/\/newamericanfuture.net\/\">calls<\/a> for the United States to resume policies that \u201cembrace the worth of every human life and put supreme value on the sanctity of life\u00a0and the preservation of institutions that safeguard it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This includes the reversal of the <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> ruling legalizing abortion, an end to taxpayer funding of any programs that \u201csubvert the respect for the equality of every human being under the law,\u201d and acknowledging that using abortions as solutions to population growth has contributed to plummeting U.S. fertility rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe equally reject the core policies on respect for human life promoted by the Rockefeller Commission and the apocalyptic tone and content of its warnings about a bleak and heartless human future,\u201d it says. \u201cWe hold that the history of humanity, though troubled by conflict, poverty, war and disease, demonstrates that progress is possible in every area of human endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The signers added that they believe it is \u201cessential that public policy reject extreme notions\u201d that put all groups and individuals in society in competition with one another, \u201cinevitably lead to declining standards of living.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">\u201cAs is plain for all to see on the 50th anniversary of the Rockefeller Commission report, the apocalyptic predictions about future famine and disease caused by \u2018overpopulation\u2019 have proven to be false, but the damage to the fabric of American society has proven to be immense,\u201d Charles Donovan, president of the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen government promotes a policy of children as disposable, and when killing innocent children is\u00a0promoted as a solution, we should not be surprised that the vulnerable of our society are mistreated,\u00a0denied equal opportunity, and marginalized,\u201d added Donavan, who also served as and deputy director of presidential correspondence for President Ronald Reagan. \u201cThis trend can and must be reversed, and it starts with a\u00a0renewed emphasis on equal respect for every human under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">The Declaration on a New American Future is signed by 30 pro-life leaders, including Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, and March for Life President Jeanne Mancini.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission\u2019s Report reflected the temper of the times,\u201d the declaration said, referring to the 1972 report. \u201cIn 1968 Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published a manifesto called \u201cThe Population Bomb.\u201d The book\u2019s dire warnings capped a tragic decade of assassination and social discord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cover of the paperback version of the bestseller did an extraordinary thing, depicting a smiling infant inside the outline of an igniting bomb,\u201d the declaration continued. \u201cThe goal was not to stir the natural heart of human beings to protect an innocent child, but to depict the baby as the bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-five years later, the declaration says, the signers see that these \u201ccrude arguments\u201d portrayal of the next generation as the enemy and warnings of overpopulation-driven disease and famine \u201chave proved false \u2013 and that, as before, the faults of overbearing government and cruel policies that divide and devalue people are the source of the greatest calamities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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