[Peace-discuss] a friend: Haiti's overpopulation - P S

[Jenifer Cartwright]

PS I assumed there were major printing errors in the following sentence, as it was poorly written and doesn't make sense re the rest of the article: 
"By providing and sustaining aid, there is no incentive to practice population control, because the more children there are, the more Haiti will benefit."
The rest of the article suggests that the author meant something like:
"By providing and sustaining aid, there is no incentive [for the Haitian government to encourage] population control, because the more children there are, the more Haiti will [receive so that higher ups can] benefit." --Jenifer
--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] a friend: Haiti's problem is overpopulation
To: "Peace-discuss List" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>, "Karen Medina" <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 3:09 PM

I don't see anything in the article that anyone could disagree with. Can you explain what creeps you out?? Having 6 kids at age 21 would be beyond creepy for me. --Jenifer

--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] a friend: Haiti's problem is overpopulation
To: "Peace-discuss List" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 1:44 PM

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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