“Health Canada Inadvertently Discloses Facts Planned Parenthood Would Like to Suppress” Analysis

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February 13th, 2013 Samantha Hauca Overgrowth or Undergrowth? Recently, it has become widely accepted that our earth is becoming over populated. Countries have been trying to keep their birth rates down with their one-child policy. In the essay, “Health Canada Inadvertently Discloses Facts Planned Parenthood Would Like to Suppress”, Ted Byfield tries to persuade the audience that the world is actually in a serious population decline rather than population explosion, like the government is trying to convince us. Regrettably, Byfield doesn’t give a sturdy case, and with misled facts and statistics, it’s hard to be influenced. Byfield starts by referencing a study that many young couples are focusing on their jobs and waiting until later in life to have children, or simply not having children at all. According to the essay, Canada isn’t one of the countries that has had “much ballyhooed ‘population explosion’” that would “crowd the world with wall-to-wall people” (222). Really, he’s suggesting quite the opposite, that the population we have could “wreak great havoc on the economies of much of the western world’ (223). He believes that the government is simply telling us these things because they would hate to admit that they were wrong in their earlier speculations. The rest of the essay goes on to describe statistics that show that European people are in severe decline that these countries are also headed for disaster. North America’s numbers are swelling, but only because of immigration and that the populations of third world countries are waning as well. Byfield concludes his essay with a theory that Planned Parenthood does not want us to know about these facts, lest they lose their funding, especially in light of the fact that many Canadians don’t want big families anyway. Even though he shows plenty of statistics to support the

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