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Chris Smith: “If you want to have economic prosperity, the means to that end is to limit the number of children.”

On the recordOctober 4, 2011
If you want to have economic prosperity, the means to that end is to limit the number of children.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith criticizes coercive family planning policies promoted by the UNFPA.

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