[Peace-discuss] a friend: Haiti's problem is overpopulation

[Bob Illyes]

The connection between overpopulation and Roman Catholicism is tenuous at best.

And the notion that people are so irrational as a group that they will have 
more children if they are less able to support them describes a human race 
so unfit that it would have long since ceased to exist. I find the argument 
that poverty creates excess birth rate to be unconvincing.

The only two factors that I know of that will keep population inside of 
sustainable bounds are education of women and availability of birth control.

Note that very Catholic Italy has no problem with excess birth rate, in 
spite of having the Vatican in their midst. The Pope may not approve, but 
Italian women are in the driver's seat on this issue. As they should be, 
since it their bodies that the Pope would like to conscript. It is a 
different kind of draft resistance.

Bob


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