government controlling/monitoring child bearing

[AFTT47]

I voted other.

It would be undesirable to be sure but I wouldn't take it off the table. Overpopulation is a really frightening thing. Combat it other ways first but if it gets bad enough, government oversight would be preferable to letting it spiral out of control.

The Catholic Church by the way is, one of the prominent villains here. Maybe Pope Francis will figure out that opposing birth control and encouraging the flock to mindlessly reproduce is incompatible with his laudable stance that we should take better care of the planet.

Having the opinion that contraception is not moral does not mean we support mindless reproduction, btw. :

If everyone followed the Church teaching to save sex for marriage, there would be a lot less pregnancies. Also, the Church does encourage responsible family planning by fertility monitoring.

You may not agree with either of these things, but saying we advocate for "mindless reproduction" is simply inaccurate.

Everyone following the church's teachings about sex before marriage is SO not going to happen. Ten percent is SO not going to happen so the practical matter is that the stupid anti-birth control stance results in unwanted pregnancies. Just look at the rate of single, teen mothers in Catholic countries vs. non-Catholic. Look at how successful GWB's idiotic abstinence-only sex education has worked.