They have succeeded in getting the House of Representatives to end all support for family-planning programs, and to reimpose President George W. Meanwhile, the righteous moralists here in America apparently believe that the only purpose of human copulation is procreation, and that, therefore, safe, effective contraception should be denied even to those people living in areas of the world most adversely affected by excessive human population. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. This supply and demand dynamic contributes to the anger and fear that has ignited the revolts there. This explosion of population has occurred throughout much of the Middle East, and as demand for food has increased, so have the prices for it. Today there are more than 83 million, 61 percent of whom are under 30 years old. Two hundred years ago there were 3 million Egyptians. Population growth has surpassed carrying capacity there and in many parts of the world. The social upheaval in the Middle East results not only from misallocated resources, but also from inadequate resources. It also jeopardizes law and order, and governments of any kind, including democratic republics.
The excessive growth of human population is the single greatest cause of human misery and the greatest threat to nearly all life on this planet. What they are doing, however, is aiding and abetting the destruction of life by ensuring that the earth is smothered in the effluvia of human population. These folks claim that they believe in the sanctity of life - many of them seeing it as a divine mission to defend that belief. The culprits in prolonging the budget impasse were the right-to-lifers who oppose any federal funding that even remotely supports not only abortion, but also any family planning, domestic or foreign. I wonder just how many federal programs most of us would really miss. Losing the services of air traffic controllers and the Coast Guard would not have been good, but curbing the Drug Enforcement Administration and suspending the insane war on drugs would have been, as would have ending the military misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. And, because that government has become so pervasively huge, a shutdown to some extent would have affected almost everyone in America.
The recent gridlock in Congress over approving the federal budget threatened a partial shutdown of the U.S.
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