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From: ajpierce@med.unc.edu (Andrew Pierce)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Human Population Growth/Decline
Summary: religion's effect upon birth rate
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Date: 29 Mar 91 04:21:17 GMT
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In article <21418@crg5.UUCP> szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo) writes:
>forces will lose out to women's choice, as they have in all developed
>countries, including the Catholic countries of Italy and Spain which
>already have birthrates below replacement levels.

What about the countries which are prodominantly islam?  In terms of world
religions, Christianity comes in a solid second to Islam so this is not a
trivial consideration.  I don't know of any islamic countries off hand
that I would really call "developed" with the possible exception of Turkey
so the conclusion drawn above may be premature.  Does anyone know what the
standard policy concerning birth control under islamic religious law is?
     -Andy
ajpierce@med.unc.edu  or  APIERCE@UNC.BITNET