Coercive schemes tainted family planning, making it politically incorrect

Evidence

Coercive birth-control schemes, such as those in China and India, have further tainted family planning. Libertarians, feminists, and human rights groups joined the ranks of religious and political opponents to forced participation. By the third population conference in 1994, the UN had shifted its focus from the population problem to the empowerment of women and to human rights issues (Foreman, 2007; Kolankiewicz & Beck, 2001). There was much talk about women’s rights and empowerment but little to show for it. Slowing population growth and family planning became branded “coercive control,” making both politically incorrect (Campbell, 2014). Funds for family planning from foreign agencies were slashed. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2603

Categorization

• XREF: Overreach poisoning a legitimate practice echoes the moral disengagement mechanism of blaming opponents and the reader’s notes on moral panics.