From: MarkA 

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:30:46 +0000, H Dickmann wrote:

>
> "MarkA"  wrote in message
> news:pan.2007.03.23.03.49.12.521900{at}nowhere.com...
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:07:22 -0700, skyeyes wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 22, 7:47 am, "H Dickmann"
 wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tell me about social progress in 20 years from now when 30% of women
>>>> chose never to have Children.
>>>
>>> Newsflash:  not all women want children.  Not all women *like*
>>> children. It's funny, if having children is so bloody wonderful, why
>>> does the rate of childbirth go down whenever and wherever women have
>>> access to higher education and personal choice?  Do you think women are
>>> intended to be nothing but baby machines?
>>>
>>> Why do you want to force women to have children they do not want?  Do
>>> you realize how messed up such children are?  Do you realize that there
>>> are already 6.5 *billion* people on this benighted planet already?
>>>
>>>
>> Catholics do not believe that there is any limit to how many people the
>> Earth can support.
>
> Not correct,
> If you want to limit the worlds population start with poor countries where
> people deliberately have a dozen children so they have someone to support
> them in sickness and old age. But that would mean money which we need
> ourselves to lead a happy and healthy life.
>

Let me be more precise: the RCC *behaves as if* it believes there is no
limit to how many people the world can support.  I hope they recognize that
the Earth's resources are finite.

As you point out, most of the growing population is in the world's poorest
countries.  With no infrastructure to provide support for people too old or
ill to care for themselves, having children is their only chance at
'social security.'

However, having the RCC preaching that all contraception is evil, and
preaching against condom use in Africa, shows a very odd set of priorities;
one that I cannot endorse.

--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)

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