Gary Bauer Quotes

I've had the great honor of traveling across the world on behalf of our country. I've been to countries where governments either forced women to have abortions, like they used to do in China, or forced women to bear children, like the used to do in Romania.

While the One Child Policy has been effective in drastically reducing Chinese birth rates, the measures adopted in its name have required exhaustive, violent, insidious and systemic violations of human rights.

China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of 'missing girls' as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.

I think that right now they are doing what they have to do. [Referring to China's one-child policy, and forced abortion for women pregnant more than once.] I don't agree with forced abortion, but I don't think the United States needs to interfere with what they're doing internally in this regard. China is courting a demographic catastrophe. By aborting more girls than boys, in 10 or 20 years Chinese men will have to import wives from Indonesia, which will, in a sense, dilute the–what they consider the racial purity of the Han Chinese.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply the population.

We never use the phrase population control. It has an implication of coercion.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.

In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.

The question of regulating birth rates is highly complex and that any standardized, dogmatic solution "for all time and all peoples" would be wrong.

No government should dictate whether or when we should have children….Reproductive freedom is a basic human right.

Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility — just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns — providing they are not denied equal protection

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters. For example, no one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.