World Net Daily: Holdren says Constitution backs compulsory abortion

Arguing that 'ample authority' exists to regulate population growth, Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote on page 837 of their 1970s textbook that 'under the United States Constitution, effective population-control programs, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.'

"In the next sentence, the authors were careful to note that few in the U.S. in the 1970s considered the situation serious enough to justify compulsion.

"Still, in the next paragraph, the authors advanced their key point: 'To provide a high quality of life for all, there must be fewer people.'

"The authors of 'Ecoscience' argued that a 'legal restriction on the right to have more than a given number of children' could be crafted under the U.S. Constitution in crisis situations under the standard that 'law has as its proper function the protection of each person and each group of persons.'"

On page 838, the authors argued, "The law could properly say to a mother that, in order to protect the children she already has, she could have no more."