UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW

This article examines the implications of coercive population control measures and discusses the acceptability of coercion as a response to the "world population problem." The author argues that violating reproductive rights through the adoption of coercive population programmes is justifiable only when the consequences of not doing so would be dire. The author finds that the drastic population problems posited by theorists such as Paul Ehrlich and Thomas Malthus have failed to materialise.