Re: Medicine is useless

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gretchen Evans  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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:

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>>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?

They have been in India for the entire period during which
peasant women continue to have so many more children than
they can support.


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