PHILADELPHIA, (NE) "The myth of overpopulation is one of the driving forces of the abortion movement here and abroad", said recently Stephen Mosher, president of the Virginia-based Population Research Institute, during a dinner of Pennsylvanians for Human Life (PHL), a group that promotes the protection of human life from conception through natural death through educational programs schools, community groups and the media.

    During his address, Mosher recalled as well the decline in population in Europe. This year the continent, taken as a whole, he said, will show a decline in population. While countries or groups of European countries have had previous population declines, mostly because of war, emigration or crop failure, this decline will be the first for the entire continent "since the black death of the Middle Ages."

    He also denounced the presence of other interests to promote control population in third world countries, asserting as well that the United States sends "hundreds of millions of dollars overseas to promote population control in these countries." "The United Nations Population Fund also tells us too many people are being born to poor children in developing counties," Mosher further emphasized. "This is tantamount to saying only wealthy people should be allowed to have children; it's a new global form of racism."