Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people everywhere. Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by earth’s resources.

Fulfilling Population Connection’s mission requires smashing any and all barriers that prevent people from fulfilling their reproductive destinies. It’s never about “population control.” It’s always about empowering people — especially women and girls. We must ensure that people are fully able to choose their own paths — including deciding for themselves whether, when, and with whom to have children. We must address the unmet need for family planning of the 214 million women in the developing world who want to prevent pregnancy but have an unmet need for modern contraception. And we must also empower people in the United States to avoid unintended pregnancies, which currently account for 45 percent of all pregnancies in this country.