Seamus Grimes

In the following viewpoint, Seamus Grimes argues that many population control programs are ineffective and unethical. These programs, says Grimes, which stress the importance of providing birth control and abortions to women rather than improving the economies of developing nations, have been designed by the United States and other industrialized nations in order to protect their own societies from an influx of immigrants and the increased consumption of resources. Seamus Grimes is a professor of geography at the National University of Ireland.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What euphemisms have replaced the terms “birth control,” population control,” and “abortion” in discussions of population policy, according to Grimes?
2. In the 1960s, according to P.J. Donaldson, what simplistic solution did the U...