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Excerpt from U. S. Population Policy and U. S. Position at the Upcoming Cairo Conference: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, July 12, 1994
What can we do about the third and last imperative, which is that large increase which will be a result of the momentum caused by the very young age of planetary population?
What we can do is work to delay the onset and change the pace of childbearing. If we could increase the a e of marriage and first sexual activity, if we could reverse the neg ect of young women, if we could promote 5 years later the age of marriage, that would be powerful enough to eliminate 1 billion projected births from the overall planetary total. It is more powerful than the introduction of new contraceptives, although those are very necessary. But that would be the most powerful thin we could do.
Is that possible to do? We thin it is. We are calling on the world to take a very careful look at what happens to young girls, and some of these charts Show what happens, 45 million 12-year-olds in the South. What happens to them in the next few years in this momentum?
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