It is one thing to have government stay out of people’s personal lives. It is quite another to use taxpayer money to subsidize the taking of human life.

Pro-choice is not pro-abortion for some of us.

I’m not sure whether I can say this succinctly, but many of the countries around the world are entering an age of great difficulty, and decreasing birth rates have a lot to do with it. Those country’s with a history of social programs, such as socialized health care, are finding that they can not financially continue to support these programs at the same level of quality with their birth rate in decline. As the birth rate of the citizenry declines, the number of citizens becoming adult taxpayers will also decline. As this happens, you end up with the elderly at one end, with their health care becoming increasingly more expensive and their contribution to the tax coffers decreasing at the same time. A country can only continue to provide this care if you have a constant infusion of fresh taxpayers. You can do that through birth of new citizens, or you can do it through immigration. The problem with mass immigration is that you change the cultural character of the nation as a whole (see Denmark, Britain, or France for an example of this), and this is not always a positive. One way that this might not be positive (and I hope I will not get flamed for this) is when people with beliefs contrary to our culture immigrate, and give birth in greater numbers than the surrounding citizenry does at the same time refusing to assimilate. This would be one way to fight a bloodless war. Once a group can create a voting block, they can weild enough power to change laws. Think about how Great Britain has been forced to allow the Sharia courts recently. Who would have thought that a country would allow separate courts for those who ascribe to Islamic law?

Anyway, I personally do not want to feel that my tax dollars are being used for something that I personally hold as one of the great sadnesses of our time. I don’t want to get into it at all, but I feel that this permanent solution to a temporary problem speaks volumes about our culture, and not in a positive way. I know that most who travel this site do not share my feelings on this and that I’m unlikely to bridge the gap in our thinking, but for the first time this week I’m going to say that if Obama is truly considering those on the other side of this argument, maybe there’s hope. At any rate, I think that doing it on the day of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade would have been like spitting in the eyes of all those who feel passionately on the other side of this.

A trip through Mexico and Guatemala, where family planners learn to practice the art of the possible
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/199907/population.asp
But talk to the government family-planning officials who, since 1974, have implemented a vigorous state policy to cut family size, and they’ll look you straight in those itchy red eyes and say that it might have been much worse. Without Mexico’s free birth-control services, they say, the nation’s population would be 134 million rather than 96 million.

It was a success, but then the likes of Warren came forward and GAGGED that most threatening thing to everyone on the planet: FAMILY PLANNING.

We are no once again in the stone age, with families having more children than they could ever hope to support and the planet too is suffering. The Global Gag Rule affects many countries besides Mexico and it must be reversed. The quality of life in these countries has declined and women’s lives have taken the greater brunt ANTI-Family planning rule. The Bush administration was more concerned with making sure Viagra was covered by insurance companies. Hemmm…

This issue to me is more important than the conjectures of why Caroline dropped out. It reminds me of the old joke of the man that was thrown from his horse, he quickly dusted himself and said he was about to dismount anyway. Same case here with Caroline, so lets get on to the big issues of the world.

But in developing nations, US attempts at population control in other countries is viewed as meddling imperialism. Big brother coming in and dictating reproduction limits and “optimal” family size in the Third World, an attempt to Westernize the globe. Conspiracy theories of ethnic cleansing and genocide abound.

Hillary during the campaign once spoke of her seeing both sides of reproductive rights interference by goverments in her travels around the world: the devasation of China’s one child policy and the flip side of Eastern bloc countries turning women into virtual baby factories to fuel their economies.

One thing is clear to me- to have a family ( or choose not to) is a fundamental human right. Goverments across the globe need to stop medding in the exercise of our rights in this regard.