Column 07
Overpopulation, poverty and hunger
Every gun that is made is a theft from those who hunger.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be fruitful and multiply! Is sex only for procreation?
Here lies my son Oskar, who died 9 months before his birth in a wild scuffle.
People have a need for sex. The pill protects against unwanted offspring. The condom against unwanted offspring and disease.
The Church's appeals for self-restraint and discipline and its condemnation of contraception lead to overpopulation and the spread of disease.
Overpopulation and the spread of disease. The condom is not a machine of mass destruction – otherwise every adolescent wet dream would already be an unavoidable grave sin.
Overpopulation, poverty and hunger are related to one another like a system of communicating vessels.
China's one-child policy should serve as a model for states at risk of a demographic explosion. At the very least, a halt to growth should be the goal. Education and the supply of contraceptives should be a concern of the First World countries.
By 2050 the African population will double if this development is not counteracted. At present 7 billion people live on Earth.
What is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular.
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