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Merrick
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Re: older mums - just say no!
Nov 02, 2006, 12:57
Yes, maternity is as natural a thing for a woman as there is.

But if that's a reason to do it, you've gotta stick by the 'natural' thing the whole way down the line and refuse modern levels of health care and nutrition.

We understand the principle with our cats and dogs. If we give them a guaranteed food supply and astonishing vetinary attention then there will rapidly be too many of them. So we have a choice of three options; have that population explosion, leave them to fend for themselves, or get them neutered.

Clearly the kindest and most humane is the neutering. Why don't we understand the same principle for humans?

Shanshee, you're right that the present human population explosion is centred on poorer countries. Thing is, I sympathise with them. If you had no pension, no health service, you'd rely on family to get you through any illness and your old age. Factor in high infant mortality and you're gonna be popping them out like nobody's business to make sure some of them will still be around when you're too doddery to work the fields.

If they knew for certain their kids wouldn't make it and there was going to be prolonged drought and civil war for the next ten years so any kids would die, then your argument would hold up. If we can presume a lack of such psychic powers, then the parents in such regions are thinking their kids might well survive, and thus be able to deliver geriatric care.

Also, it's a resource consumption thing. Two children here consume the same as half a dozen families of Bangladeshis. The last thing the world needs now is more Western consumers.
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