Washington, DC
Pro-lifers condemn Sanders’s population comments
Pro-life activists have condemned Senator Bernie Sanders for remarks which appeared to support the abortion of unborn children as a way of limiting population growth in poor countries. Sanders said that population growth was a threat to the environment, and drew attention to “poor countries around the world, where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies and where they can have the opportunity through birth control to limit the number of kids they have”. He repeatedly made reference to abortion in his answer, saying it was “absurd” to deny funding to organisations which “allow women to have abortions or even get involved in birth control”.
