Yusaidhe believed loosening the policywould not profoundly affectthe population, adding that urbanizationhastransformedpeople'sideas on family planning.
Take Bangladesh, a country mired in poverty yet with a fertility rate only slightly higher than America thanks to a progressive family-planning policy.
And in Iran, public policy and investment in family-planning services made the difference between rising fertility between 1979 and 1984 and falling fertility thereafter, not the rise in national incomes, nor female education.
Israel and Egypt are the biggest recipients of U.S. aid in the package, which provides funds for multinational organizations like the World Bank and a raft of overseas policy initiatives from nuclear nonproliferation to familyplanning.