Reply #39: The Pope is one factor, not the only one. That countries like France & Italy use birth control is

[Warren DeMontague]

because their populations tend to ignore the Vatican's goofy edicts on the subject.

The fact remains that in countries with high standards of living, personal autonomy & reproductive freedom, birth rates tend to be self-limiting. Acknowledgement must be made that the so-called 'population problem' is a regional, economic, and culturally dependent localized phenomenon.

But invariably these threads devolve into generalized hate-fests against "TEH YUPPY BREEDERZ WHO LET THEIR BRATS SCREAM IN TGIFRIDAYS", and "I am morally superior because I don't have any children except for my thirty-seven kitties"... that sort of thing.