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Kenneth Boulding

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The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
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Quoted in Dixy Lee Ray (1990). "Trashing the Planet", p.168. Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-0895265449.

 
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