Science Czar Says Mandatory Abortions and Sterilizations Are Constitutional

John Holdren, the 'science czar', says mandatory abortions and sterilizations are constitutional and would be upheld by the Supreme Court.

It's linked to the population and global warming. He and others argue that as there are more people, global warming grows. To combat global warming, reduce the population.

Arguing that "ample authority" exists to regulate population growth, Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote on page 837 of their 1970s textbook that "under the United States Constitution, effective population-control programs, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society." (1)

"The air and the oceans are warming, mountain glaciers are disappearing, sea ice is shrinking, permafrost is thawing, the great land ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are showing signs of instability and sea level is rising," Holdren testified to the Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation July 30 (2). The full transcript of his testimony is here in PDF.

Holdren told the Senate that the cause of these perils was human-generated carbon dioxide emissions.

"It is the emission of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants from our factories, our vehicles, and our power plants, and from use of our land in ways that move carbon from soils and vegetation into the atmosphere in the form of C02," he told the Senate.

He warned of dire consequences: "And the consequences for human well-being are already being felt: more heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires; tropical diseases reaching into the temperate zones; vast areas of forest destroyed by pest outbreaks linked to warming; alterations in patterns of rainfall on which agriculture depends; and coastal property increasingly at risk from the surging seas."

And, again: "Devastating increases in the power of the strongest hurricanes, sharp drops in the productivity of farms and ocean fisheries, a dramatic acceleration of species extinctions, and inundation of low-lying areas by rising sea level are among the possible outcomes." (3)

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1. Corsi, Jerome R. (2009, September 22). "Holdren says Constitution backs compulsory abortion". World New Daily.
Retrieved September 23, 2009, from World Net Daily

2. "Statement Of Dr. John P. Holdren, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office of the President" (2009, July 30). U.S. Senate.
Retrieved September 23, 2009, from U.S. Senate

3. Corsi, Jerome R. (2009, September 22). "Holdren says Constitution backs compulsory abortion". World New Daily.
Retrieved September 23, 2009, from World Net Daily