Only Women Have Babies

Only women have babies.) If the Pop Clock is not slowed down, and soon, these problems will continue to worsen everywhere, and all the ad-hoc, piecemeal attempts to solve them within the framework of free and orderly government must end in failure.

AT today’s growth rate, the U.S. population will double every 69 years. Meanwhile, the population of Latin America, now 342 million, is doubling every 25 years. Mexico’s population alone will reach 126 million at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and three billion at the end of it. Legal admissions to the United States are today limited to 290,000 per year. But illegal entries from Mexico and a score of other overpopulated nations are now running a million a year. It is an optimist, indeed, who believes that, short of war, the United States can contain this tidal wave of humanity south of the border. The USSR, with a population of 260 million and a growth rate near our own, is faced with a similar threat. It shares a troubled five-thousand-mile border with a hostile Chinese people who now number nearly a billion. Red China’s population will reach two billion within the next thirty years and, by the end of the next century, might reach 16 billion, representing at that point almost half of the hu-

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Only women have babies.) If the Pop Clock is not slowed down, and soon, these problems will continue to worsen everywhere, and all the ad-hoc, piecemeal attempts to solve them within the framework of free and orderly government must end in failure.

AT today’s growth rate, the U.S. population will double every 69 years. Meanwhile, the population of Latin America, now 342 million, is doubling every 25 years. Mexico’s population alone will reach 126 million at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and three billion at the end of it. Legal admissions to the United States are today limited to 290,000 per year. But illegal entries from Mexico and a score of other overpopulated nations are now running a million a year. It is an optimist, indeed, who believes that, short of war, the United States can contain this tidal wave of humanity south of the border. The USSR, with a population of 260 million and a growth rate near our own, is faced with a similar threat. It shares a troubled five-thousand-mile border with a hostile Chinese people who now number nearly a billion. Red China’s population will reach two billion within the next thirty years and, by the end of the next century, might reach 16 billion, representing at that point almost half of the hu-