PA: Dem Candidate Deletes Tweet Touting Endorsement From Abortion Advocacy Group

The Population Connection Action Fund in the past called for aggressive population control.

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Pennsylvania congressional candidate Susan Wild touted her support on Twitter from a group that has previously advocated population control before ultimately deleting her tweet and calling the matter “a distraction.”

Wild said she was “honored” to receive the endorsement of the Population Connection Action Fund, formerly Zero Population Growth (ZPG), which in the past condemned “irresponsible breeding” and called for excessively taxing large families. In the 1960s, the group said its goals were providing government funds for abortion and implementing heavy taxes on families with more than two children.

“No responsible family should have more than two children,” ZPG said in a brochure from the time. “Irresponsible people who have more than two children should be taxed to the hilt for the privilege of irresponsible breeding.”

The group’s co-founder Paul Ehrlich advocated abortion as a means of population control. Abortion is a “a highly effective weapon in the armory of population control,” he wrote in his book The Population Bomb.

Population Connection Action Fund changed its name in 2002 and now says it does not want to dictate how many children families have. Wild still deleted her tweet touting the group’s endorsement.

“I am honored to have the endorsement of the Population Connection Action Fund,” she wrote in a tweet reproduced below. “I have always been an advocate for women and families.”  more