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From: stern@steinmetz.UUCP (Harold A. Stern)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Birth Control in Kenya
Message-ID: <254@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 08:27:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 08:27:56 1985
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Heard on the news today that the Pope was in Kenya. Also heard that
he spoke out against the government's attempts to lower that nation's
birth rate, which at 4% annually is among the highest, if not THE highest,
in the world. Said that encouraging contraception was wrong.

My question is, WHY? Here we have a nation of people who are not doing all
that much better than the Ethiopians we keep hearing about in the media.
There are too many people, and there's not enough food to go around. 
Defusing the population bomb might be the only chance these people have
of surviving. They weren't even talking about abortion - just contraception.

I would very much appreciate it it all responses, justifications, etc. 
were sent to the following addresses, rather than posted to the net (or
at least do both, since I'm moving to a system without access to the 
net)
						Thanx in advance,
						harold a. stern

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