Abstract
Psychiatrists do well to concern themselves with the impending avalanche of population explosion. The direct bearing that abortion has on population figures is all too apparent. In the United States alone, if we were to take the estimated one million abortions per year and calculate population curves predicated on these abortions not having been accomplished, the contrast to present curves would indeed be vivid. Then let us remember what a small part of the total world census we represent.
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Kummer, J.M. (1964). The Problems of Abortion The Personal Population Explosion. In: Mudd, S. (eds) The Population Crisis and the Use of World Resources. World Academy of Art and Science, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-5910-6_25
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