Re: Medicine is useless

On 15 Nov 2003 13:01:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman
Rubin) wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>George Conklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>"Herman Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>> Drol Yag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> >Better let more people die, especially old ones, saves money and there
>>> >will be no overpopulation !
>
>>> The effect on overpopulation will be quite small.
>
>>> Most of the world's overpopulation comes from places
>>> where medical care is poor, and to the extent
>>> medicine contributes to it, it does so by reducing
>>> maternal and childhood, especially infant, deaths.
>
>>  Herman, the only way the birth rate comes down is when infant mortality
>>rate drops radically and people decide they don't need replacement children.
>>You get a lower birth rate by reducing infant mortality.
>
>Only partially; India is a good example.  Women do come
>in for birth control information after they have had on
>the order of a half dozen children.  Infant mortality
>dropped radically more than a half century ago.
>
>The only non-totalitarian method available is economic.

How about simply making verious contraceptive measures easily
available to all that desire them?

pixie