Senator who questioned Supreme Court birth control ruling led campus group that promoted it

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Zero Population Growth, or ZPG, is an organization co-founded in 1968 by Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich, the author of the best-selling book "The Population Bomb," which promoted both contraceptive use and abortion as a means of preventing over-population.
34% : Most Americans are strongly in favor of birth control, including people who, like Blackburn, are adamantly opposed to abortion, polls have shown over many years.
23% : In "The Mind of a Conservative Woman," Blackburn decried Planned Parenthood's "tragic agenda" and labeled abortion as "barbaric."
15% : Blackburn's AWS chapter also sponsored programs where hot-button issues and organizations that she has stridently opposed as senator -- including abortion and Planned Parenthood -- were presented and debated, former AWS members said.

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