Posted on 07/15/2008 4:23:59 PM PDT by wagglebee
LONDON, July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The solution to global warming, says a UK charity, is to implement laws that would result in people having fewer children. Governments should put slow pressure on people to limit their offspring to one or two children to save social and environmental resources.
"There is no unlimited right to have children," said the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), the group known to be one of the most militantly anti-life organisations in the world. There is a limit, the Trust said, "on the number of children to which people are 'entitled'."
"A voluntary population policy should be incorporated into law," the group said.
Governments, indicated the organization, should implement a "society-wide process of agreement, internalisation and normalisation" to the idea of small families and use a series of "gentle nudges" rather than "hard shoves," to get people to conform to the new childless paradigm.
All of this, they said, is to ensure that everyone has equal access to wilderness areas. "Our moral and legal rights to access wilderness and natural biological diversity (including other species), enjoy its benefits, and perhaps even see it restored, are at odds with, and arguably outweigh, the private right to have an unlimited number of children."
The Trust said that "human rights theory, legal precedent and national and international practice do not" support the UN's reassertion of its 1968 declaration that individuals "have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and timing of their children."
This year, the slogan by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), one of the world's largest promoters of abortion for World Population Day, July 11, was "Family Planning: It's a right. Let's make it real!"
But the OPT responded saying that there is really only a "far more limited right to 'found a family'."
The group quotes a paper by a US academic and animal rights activist, Carter Dillard, who called the notion that people have a natural right to have as many children as they want, "self-contradictory and illogical."
"Only the decision not to have children is a genuinely private act," Dillard wrote, whereas the decision to procreate affects the lives of others and limits the freedom of descendants who must then compete for resources. True freedom, the paper says, is the freedom not to be bothered by the existence of other people. "As numbers increase, life becomes more complex," Dillard wrote, and "the scope of law expands and regulation brings a contraction of rights."
To support his assertion, Dillard cites the example of China, where the state has "traditionally... perceived women's reproductive function as a legitimate matter of state control."
But such open calls for the state to coerce citizens to have fewer children is gaining critics.
Dominic Lawson, writing today for the Independent, said, "The population control freaks have also been skilful in adopting the fashionable political concerns of the day to their cause." He called the OPT's use of environmentalist slogans on "carbon footprints," "yet another illustration of the way these people mould their agenda to whatever is the most fashionable political concern of the day."
Brendan O'Neill went even further in the Guardian, saying that the new environmentalist movement is a threat to human freedom and democracy.
"It seems to me," O'Neill wrote, "that green thinking - with its shrill intolerance of dissenting views, its deep distaste for free movement and free choice, and its view of individuals, not as history-makers, but as filthy polluters - poses a more profound threat to liberty even than the government's paranoid anti-terrorist agenda."
In 2003, the OPT drew the ire even of the far left British media establishment after its conference at Oxford, at which the group suggested that the solution to Britain's environmental problems is to reduce the population to 30 million, half of the country's current number.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Government Must Institute Two-Child Policy says Leading UK Population Control Group
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jul/07071201.html
Environmentalist Extremists Call Humanity "Virus", a "Cancer", Large Families Guilty of "Eco-Crime"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/may/07050812.html
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Too bad these people’s mothers did not know about limiting births
Indeed!
Yet, they never volunteer to get rid of themselves.
Good luck with that.
“There is no unlimited right to have children,”
Sorry. God said “Be fruitful and multiply.” That is the ultimate granting of rights.
Liberals are all about “choice” UNTIL you choose differently than them.
***These people are totally deranged.***
They most certainly are.
And, when they have no younger generation sufficient to keep their "country" in business, they will be overrun by moslem hordes refusing to play along. Then they will be not only deranged but decapitated.
And me my seven.
“A voluntary population policy should be incorporated into law,” the group said.
Don’t you just love this newspeak? A “voluntary” policy will be incorporated into law? By definition, a law is something that mandates or prohibits certain things. By definition, a voluntary act is one that is optional, and thus up to the individual.
Yeah, this worked so well in China.
Not too long ago these people would be in some psych unit somewhere.
My bride and I just found out that we are going to have a baby (after two years of trying!).
If they try to take the child, they will meet a very well armed and angry father.
You beat me to it. Yeah, this works so well in China. Forced abortions and all. Even the abortion proponents in this country, misguided as they are, generally can't stomach how China does it. That's not a choice thing at all. That's just murder by the state.
The eugenics crowd never gives up. The profession must pay well.
They believe the more they kill the more they can have.
Yep liberals are totally all about live and let life, don’t be judgemental, and all that. But here they are making a huge judgement about people who have children. They just don’t see the irony or the hypocrisy of it all. They are blinded by their “superior” judgement about how people should live their lives for the greater good.
Congratulations!
These folks are downright scary, as well as stupid.
Unless you are muslim and then your religion says you can have as many children and wives as you want. One man, 52 children. Hey! Only the white folk will limit their children so in one generation they will become the minority and really will live under Sharia Law.
They are well paid. Our own Congress could cease funding these NGOs, but they are geting paid, too.
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Funny thing was that conception would have been in May, which was a very stressful month for us. Looking at the chart, it would have been a day where both of us grabbed some of our Nebraska wine and just got happy after two bad days at work.
All the charting, doctor's visits, and stuff and it happened after a bottle of wine. Reminds me I have to get more of that stuff!
LOL! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME PICTURES! Wow. 13 boys and two girls. We have friends who have two girls and six boys. Life is GOOD.
OOps. Looks like one of the girls is the MOM! LOL!
LMAO!
Looking up Carter Dillard,
1) attorney for the Humane Society of the United States
2) on the NYU law faculty.
Why am I not surprised.
The sad irony is that a century ago it was the Humane Society that took the lead in reforming child labor laws. Now, they support denying children the right to even be born.
Pass laws freeing past perps from jail - check
Pass laws changing War against Terrorists to a 'War against doctors, nurses, and knives' - check
Pass laws outlawing defense by citizens - check
Pass laws outlawing even discussing the perps - check
Pass laws making the victims accessible to the perps - check
Pass laws stopping catching mass murderers and terrorists before the fact - check
Pass a law allowing polygamy for Islam - check
Pass a law limiting the number of children for dhimmis. - coming
Pass a law making it illegal not to surrender. - coming
"England is dead, Jim. Dead, moribund, deceased, passed on, over, in its final dirtnap"
LOL! A bottle of wine. That seems to be the ultimate conception tool. A family friend and his wife have conceived both of their children while under the influence.
Congrats! I’m just over 12 weeks along - it’s an exciting time!
I want to get preganant again and parade my fat belly and all my kids around in front of these people just to piss them off. Absurd.
Just give me a call! They will have at least TWO to confront!
CONGRATS POP!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“...it happened after a bottle of wine.”
That’s how we got our third! :0) Congratulations!!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I have the perfect solution for you!
Run around naked all the time!
Men love that stuff! LOL!
Wow, having limits put on having babies sounds like a great way to speed the islamization of Europe.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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They hate life itself, including their own. The end result of decades of indoctrination.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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