Scientist Calls For World Government Permission Before Humans Can ‘Breed’

No different from a driver’s license

And indeed, Istvan says he sees that day approaching. In his Wired post, he writes that his notion first came to him during an informal party, when he heard a tall, blonde obstetrician say, “with 10,000 kids dying everyday around the world from starvation, you’d think we’d put birth control in the water.”

After hearing that — and giving the matter careful thought — Istvan wrote that, in an effort to “give hundreds of millions of future kids a better life, I cautiously endorse the idea of licensing parents.”

That process, he wrote, “would be little different than getting a driver’s license.” Parents would be required to “pass a series of basic tests” in order to “get the green light to get pregnant and raise children.”

Now, “those applicants who are deemed unworthy” for any number of reasons — Istvan lists homelessness, poverty and criminal history among them — “would not be allowed until they could demonstrate they were suitable parents.”

Istvan goes on to question how far governments might go to enforce their birth control mandates.

“Would governments force abortion upon mothers if they were found to be pregnant without permission?” he asked, positing that the idea seems “unimaginable in most societies around the world.”

He also writes that he finds “near-term hope” in a contraceptive technology that is being funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — a remote-controlled injectable microchip that could effectively sterilize a woman for more than a decade.

“The implanted microchip lasts for up to 16 years — three times current implantable devices, including IUDs — and can deliver hormones into the body via an on-off switch on your mobile phone,” he wrote. “It’s not a huge jump to imagine governments seeing opportunity in using this.”

But, due to the U.S. government’s poor fiscal record, as well as other failures, Istvan says he thinks that some sort of world government should be in charge of deciding who can have kids.

“Perhaps a nonprofit entity like the World Health Organization might be able to step in,” he suggested, adding that WHO’s role would probably inspire “more confidence.”

‘Human breeding’ needs to be controlled

A concept of birth licenses — even those decided by the United Nations — is not a new concept. Istvan discussed the support of ethics Prof. Hugh LaFollette and Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb.

In addition, Ehrlich co-authored a 1977 book titled Ecoscience with current Obama Administration science czar John Holdren, in which they endorsed a “comprehensive planetary regime” to control fertility, adding that “compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”