Children’s Vaccine

The article “U.N. to Commit Funds for ‘Children’s Vaccine’ Search” (front page, Sept. 9) was no doubt intended as a piece of good news.

It could be, but only if the World Health Organization concurrently pursues the search for a simple contraceptive to enable parents worldwide to limit the number of children they produce. Otherwise the “dream vaccine” will be a doom machine: dooming additional millions of children to lives of poverty and our planet to even swifter destruction.

Unfortunately, the United States is precluded from contributing to such essential research because President Bush’s Administration perpetuates former President Ronald Reagan’s refusal to acknowledge rampant world overpopulation as a problem.

Concerned citizens must act by individually contributing to non-governmental organizations such as Planned Parenthood that are confronting the No. 1 problem of our decade.

ALISON FULLER

Altadena