I am a pro-life atheist

[Abracadabra]

There are 7 billion people fouling this planet.

We've got enough.

The population is also growing rapidly. So the more "birth control" the better, even if some of it is done via the belated methods of abortion.

One thing I do favor is controlling birth before it gets to the point of pregnancy.

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In fact, here's something I thought about, but I'm sure it would met with huge public rejection and controversy.

But I was thinking that all children should be made sterile just before they reach an age of sexual maturity. (in a reversible way of course) From what I understand such things are easily possible with today's medical technologies.

Then in order to have children they would need to actually go to the doctor to become sterile again. Or better yet, just have all pregnancies via in vitro fertilization processes. That would do away with accidental pregnancies altogether.

We have the technology to make that a possibility. The only real question would be a political one. Could it be put into law?

I'm sure people would fight that one big time. But it sure would save a whole lot of unwanted pregnancy problems and pretty much make the need for abortions a thing of the past (save for perhaps a deformed fetus, or other medical problems). But there would not be anymore accidental pregnancies by people who don't want children. They simply couldn't have children without going and getting in vitro fertilized.

That may actually be something that humans might consider in a future time. But if any politician brought something like that up right now he would be stoned to death on the spot for merely suggesting it.

But at some point humans are going to have to control population rates. Planet Earth simply isn't big enough to hold projected populations.