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From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski)
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Subject: Re: Re: Live Aid
Message-ID: <196@mot.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 18:59:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 18:59:20 1985
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>> i think a good percentage (10%? 30%?) [of live aid money -sq] shouldn't
>> go for food, it should go for birth control and education about birth
>> control.  yes, yes, i realize there are these incredible drought recently 
>
>My position simply put is: "keep your hands off other people's
>bodies!!!" If you feel like being generous and giving people money,
>fine, go ahead, but you have no right whatsoever to tell people how
>many children they should have and what drugs they should ingest in
>order to control that.

hands? who mentioned hands? I have a right to tell anybody anything and 
they have a right to believe me or ignore me

>
>Furthermore, it is very easy for us to say "teach them about birth
>control", what birth control?  think for a while.   Any hormonal birth
>control method can be extremely dangerous for anybody who is not
>   .   .   .
>All other birth control methods except sterilisation require a very
>basic amount of hygiene which is not available among people who do not
>even have running water to drink.  Otherwise, they too can be
>dangerous.  So, sterilisation is left, eh?  well, given that people

The Nestle scandal showed that people in these cultures want to do
things the "modern, Western way".  A few cases of condoms and
some basic education about conception would be a cheap, simple alternative.

>
>Furthermore, there is not really any need to worry about such things.
>History has shown that decreases in birth rates always follow increases
>in wealth.  As people get richer and healthier, children become
>liabilities instead of being productive, so people have less.
>-- 
>Sophie Quigley
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>
But how do you get richer and healthier if your population is growing
out of control? This birth-rate turnaround point depends on economic
and cultural factors.  We were lucky enough to reach  this
point BEFORE we were overpopulated to the point of famine. 

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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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