Totalitarian nations have always viewed procreation as an activity that is state business, not the hopes and dreams of ordinary people. Nazi Germany encouraged the right sort of people (in the eyes of the State) to have as many children as they could, and then made sure that the wrong sort of people could not procreate at all. The Fascists, less obsessed with race than the Nazis, also encouraged Italian families to have as many children as possible.
Both regimes, incidentally, bemoaned the small amount of space which their respective nations occupied. The Bolsheviks originally were very lenient in allowing abortions, but when it appeared that the population was not growing quickly enough, it tightened up on abortions. It was not a question of whether abortion was moral or immoral, but how many or few births the State deemed appropriate at any particular period of time. To the totalitarian State, people are in a sense like cattle or widgets, and the state can decide what kind and how many to produce.
In America, Margaret Sanger and her fellow American progressives held the same fundamental values about racial eugenics as did the Nazis. Inferior races, they felt, should be encouraged not to have more children, and children who would be born into poverty were considered, per se, unfortunate (although millions of such Americans know that a poor but loving family can be the biggest blessing in life conceivable).
Population “overcrowding” has long been a lurking menace presented by progressives to compel individuals to yield more power to the state. Population density, however, has almost nothing to do with successful societies. Singapore, among the most crowded nations on the planet, has beautiful parks, neat neighborhoods, and low crime rates. Russia, with vast amounts of breathing room, suffers from many of the afflictions which overpopulation is supposed to cause.
Modern Europe’s problem is not overpopulation, but rather declining birth rates and aging populations.
China has adopted a radical population control plan intended to reduce its population to manageable ranges. The One Child Policy has been state policy of Chinese Communism for 30 years. The government has forcibly sterilized millions of Chinese women, and millions of unborn children have been aborted. China is actually celebrating its 30th anniversary of this mass extermination of human life. Babies born alive have had formaldehyde injected into the crown of their heads. Unofficial "black babies," those born in defiance of government edicts who are not killed, do not exist in the eyes of the state and may be denied medical care or government education. Other consequences of the One Child Polciy include an imbalance of males over females, and children growing up without siblings. Government, unrestrained, becomes "God" — and not a good God.
