‘Words Fail Me:’ Pro-Life Leader Reacts to Population Control Advocates Speaking at Vatican

LifeSite News ^ | 3/10/17 | Claire Chretien

[marshmallow]

March 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The Vatican hosting population control advocates at a conference is "such a departure from the solid, orthodox teaching [of] the two previous popes," a pro-life leader who has spent decades fighting the "myth" of overpopulation told LifeSiteNews.

Steve Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, told LifeSiteNews that the Pontifical Academy of Sciences shouldn't be surprised that speakers at its Biological Extinction conference, which included the pro-abortion "father" of the population control movement and supporters of contraception, espoused anti-Catholic views.

"This is what you get if you invite secular humanists to speak at a Catholic conference," said Mosher. "You get a secular humanist perspective, which is to say, if you think that human beings – men – are nothing but animals, then it’s perfectly alright to thin the herd." This is done "on the pretense that there’s not enough in the way of resources to support the existing herd."

And "they propagate their myth of overpopulation," said Mosher.

During one part of the conference, the Population Council's John Bongaarts' claimed that there is a worldwide "unmet need" for contraception.

"You have these numbers based on surveys where you go into countries and you ask women, ‘Have you had a child in the last two years?’" Mosher explained. "And if they say yes, then you ask them a second question: ‘Are you using a modern method of contraception?’ By which they mean an abortifacient pill, an IUD, condoms, Depo Provera, or other methods. And if they say no, then they have an ‘unmet need for contraception.’"

Such surveys "assume that because [women have] had a baby in the last two years and because they’re not using a modern method of contraception, that they need contraception," said Mosher. They "are designed to produce pre-determined......

[Da Coyote]

Sorry but the Catholic Church does not have a pope at the present time. Your prayers are important to us. Please leave your name and number an we’ll get back to you as soon as we find one who’s read the bible.

Coming from one who was raised as a Catholic and who’d like to return.

Someday.

[jazminerose]

There is no over population problem. It’s the reverse, actually.

[Smellin Salt]

There are certainly over population issues in certain parts of the world. Mexico, Central, and South America, to mention a few.

[heterosupremacist]

From the link provided: Organizers of the Vatican-run conference predict that if effective steps are not taken to reverse so-called man-made “global climate change,” then up to 40 percent of “all biodiversity on Earth” will be destroyed “by the end of this century,” including a “majority” of species of plants. “[T]here is no possibility of improving our situation without the widespread adoption of social justice, both as a matter of morality and as a matter of survival,” the event brochure put out by the Vatican states. With the invitation of Ehrlich to address the conference, how the Pontifical Academies understand “social justice” takes on a sinister aspect. "...social justice, both as a matter of morality and as a matter of survival>..." A matter of morality, really?

[BlessedBeGod]

‘Words fail me:’ Pro-life leader reacts to population control advocates speaking at Vatican

[Salvation]

Exactly what Chesterton thought!

G. K. Chesterton

"Surplus population"

"SCROOGE is not only as modern as Gradgrind but more modern than Gradgrind. He belongs not only to the hard times of the middle of the nineteenth century, but to the harder times of the beginning of the twentieth century; the yet harder times in which we live. Many amiable sociologists will say, as he said, "Let them die and decrease the surplus population." The improved proposal is that they should die before they are born.

"It is notable also that Dickens gives the right reply; and that with a deadly directness worthy of a much older and more subtle controversionalist. The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population; or if he is not, how he knows he is not. That is the answer which the Spirit of Christmas gives to Scrooge."

~G.K. Chesterton: Introduction to A Christmas Carol. (1922)

[Zeneta]

“Lightning Crashes”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJ4O-nSveg

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Why is this even surprising?

[Slyfox]

Depends on how you define "over population."

When the local dictators steal all the food and medicine and prevent it from getting to the people, then there will be hunger and medical supply issues where it appears there is an "over population" problem.

Before the communists entered Vietnam the people lived poorly but they did not want for food. They had their water buffalo and their communal rice paddies and they lived happily though "poor" according to American standards.

When I fly in an airplane across a continent I like to look out the window. There is a whole lot of land out there that is not peopled.

We don't have a "over population" problem we have a problem with authorities who do everything they can to mismanage the lives of other people.

If a pope says that people should only have three children, what the heck does that mean for someone who has four children? Because I happen to have four children. Am I now to blame for over population? Is he going to be ready to offer a SOLUTION to over population? Or, is he hoping someone else comes up with a SOLUTION?

Francis de Chardin is unbelievably irresponsible.

[Islander7]

Related:

Global Population Reduction: Confronting the Inevitable

Looking past the near-term concerns that have plagued population policy at the political level, it is increasingly apparent that the long-term sustainability of civilization will require not just a leveling-off of human numbers as projected over the coming half-century, but a colossal reduction in both population and consumption.

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That there will be a large-scale reduction in global human numbers over the next two or three centuries appears to be inevitable. The primary issue seems to be whether this process will be under conscious human control and (hopefully) relatively benign, or whether it will turn out to be unpredictably chaotic and (perhaps) catastrophic.

-- snip

Bolding mine

Much more at the link

[Eagles6]

Totally agree.

[Trod Upon]

It will be through famine and war. There are just too many morons out there breeding like flies. Scarcity and conflict are the future. Many seem to take the whole “populate the Earth” thing to an extreme; they won’t be happy until we’re packed in like a giant, starving bacterial colony.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Francis is about to throw the Church’s Pro Life stance under the bus in the name of “saving the planet.”

And the only organized resistance is worried about some divorcee in Wichita taking Communion.

[Salvation]

[fatima]

Pope Francis has never supported abortion .