Both require the sexual reproductive capacity of human bodies,” Ostermann wrote in a piece for Salon. No, the Population Council in fact publicly collaborated with China’s State Family Planning Commission, the government agency charged with enforcing the one-child policy. The Population Council is also documented to have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to China for its population control measures in the 1980s. (The conference itself was sponsored by China’s State Family Planning Commission.) The Population Council is now careful to say that its efforts to increase the worldwide use of contraceptives ensure that such uptake is “voluntary.” It has also focused even more on abortion.