Food for thought:
"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is." (Catholic Nun)
“Don’t speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people.
Don't tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all His children.
Don't preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors.
In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as in how you choose to live and give. (Unknown)”
I like the above two quotes BUT only in the context of responsible reproduction. Protection of humanity from human overpopulation trumps any one individual’s right to put all inhabitants of this planet in danger from the unavoidable consequences of global human overpopulation. Failure of governments everywhere to even address the consequences of human overpopulation makes the first two quotes an oxymoronic senseless dribble. When any species overpopulates its natural resources it makes little sense to talk about obligations to adequately nourish all the members of that species. This inability for humans to accept the consequences of human overpopulation is already behind much of the misery and violence increasing most everywhere at an exponential rate. The quandary is obvious: The first two quotes only work if, at the same time, we are not nurturing human overpopulation. Thus, the first two humane principles work only if the third principle in this paragraph is in place. “How many times must a man look up, and pretend that he just doesn’t see?”
