So, what exactly is beneficial about keeping people ignorant and without any ability to limit the size of their families?
I don't know about the other countries, but the Catholic Church is still very powerful in the Philippines, and I believe they actively prohibit the use of birth control.
I think there needs to be a balance. I'm sure you've read Mark Steyn's commentary about how we in the West are all killing ourselves by overuse of birth control and abortion. One part of me asks if we want to transmit the same methods of national suicide to other countries that are still growing.
The other part of me, of course, doesn't want to create children until me and the prospective mother are both ready, so I'm sure I will use birth control while I, personally, am there.
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