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

[Karen Medina]

I think the article is creepy. Thanks for sharing it. I wish you did not
agree with the article, Jenifer.

-karen medina


> here's one example from the Tacoma Times under the headline:
> HAITI: Country Badly Needs Birth Control
>
> "The recent tragedy in Haiti certainly deserves our sympathy. However, in
> all the news coverage and analyses of Haiti, no one has even dared to
> mention the underlying big problem: overpopulation.
>
> The country is too small and not productive enough to support nine
> million-plus people and could not survive on its own without all the
> long-term aid given by well-meaning organizations all over the world.
>
> The 200,000 killed in the recent earthquake will be replaced in just a few
> years.
>
> Haiti must get its population under control and overcome its misguided
> historical influences. There are many others in the world also in this
> situation. By providing and sustaining aid, there is no incentive to
> practice population control, because the more children there are, the more
> Haiti will benefit.
>
> A Los Angeles Times story (TNT, 1-25) quotes a 21-year-old woman who has
> six children! Haiti’s problem is that it has an extremely high birth rate,
> fostered by the Catholic Church and the Bush administration’s ban on any
> birth control information in the past decade. Nine million people on 27,000
> square miles of depleted and eroded land, a density of about 1,000 people
> per square mile is too many. Washington’s density is 97, and Oregon’s 39.
>
> Along with food and water, the thousands of charitable organizations now in
> Haiti should also be educating and encouraging birth control. This would
> help that country immensely."
>
> The whole article is at
> www.thenewstribune.com/468/story/1043981.html?storylink=omni_popular
>
> And of course you'll also find sneering entries slamming Planned Parenthood
> for trying to help... --Jenifer
>

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