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- LETTERS, Page 4Population Control
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- As you point out (ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 23), overpopulation is a
- principal source of the world's environmental problems, causing
- whole nations to starve and upsetting nature's balance.
- Political leaders backed by Big Business try to make
- environmentalists look like kooks, and religious leaders call
- techniques to control the population a sin. Restricting abortion
- and birth control is irresponsible and dangerous. If we do not
- focus on saving the planet, we won't have to worry about whether
- abortion, birth control and sex education are moral. We won't
- be here.
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- D. Surmani Murdock Venice, Calif.
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- You give pro-lifers too much credit for de-funding Third
- World family-planning programs. Many of these programs backfired
- because of inherent flaws. The West gave out contraceptives,
- expecting that the Third World would distribute them in a just
- fashion. People were given the contraceptives with little
- explanation about how to use them. The West offered abortionists
- when the Third World needed doctors and teachers. If we promote
- women's rights in the Third World and provide better education,
- population growth will decline.
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- Andrew Sullivan Omaha
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