Pope compares abortion to throwing away uneaten food. Yeah, because THAT makes sense.

Courtesy of ABC News:

Pope Francis on Monday criticized abortion as evidence of a "throwaway culture" that wastes people as well as food, saying such a mentality is a threat to world peace. 

Saying hunger is a threat to world peace, he noted that not only food but human beings themselves are often discarded as unnecessary. 

"We cannot be indifferent to those suffering from hunger, especially children, when we think of how much food is wasted every day in many parts of the world immersed in what I have often termed 'the throwaway culture,'" Francis said. 

That culture, he said, also affects the unborn child. 

"For example, it is frightful even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day," he said. Francis has generally limited his exhortations about abortion, saying church teaching is well known and that he prefers to speak less about the church's moralizing rules and more about its positive, welcoming message.

The idea that a woman deciding to terminate a pregnancy, especially in its early stages, is tantamount to throwing away a child is ludicrous enough, but comparing it to uneaten food that somebody else would take, which I take to mean they could be adopted, is intellectually dishonest.

The fact is that there are over a half million American children in this country waiting to be adopted, and millions more around the world, most who will most likely never find a home to take them in.

The idea that there is a home for every child born on this planet is a fantasy, and one that is constantly pushed by the anti-abortion zealots to guilt young women into carrying their pregnancy to term.

The statistics claim that there are 125,000 fetuses aborted each day, or 44,500,000 each year.

And according to the Pope each and every one of those children deserve to be born. That is 44,5000,000 new human beings each year, born onto a planet already bursting at the seams with 7 billion people.

7 billion people eating the available food, using the limited resources, and adding to the pollution which threatens to turn our planet into charcoal briquette in the not too distant future.

Of course the population could also be controlled through family planning methods, that used birth control to give women the choice of how many children they want to bear, and at what time they feel prepared to bear them.

But as we know the Catholic church, and the Pope, are adamantly against that as well.

Which is why the Pope's words ring so hollow.

Simply put he cannot express frustration over the number of people starving to death in the world while also demanding that every sexual act should have the option of resulting in a fertilized egg, and that each fertilized egg should result in a new life on this planet.

If the Pope really believes that the food wasted by the wealthy is enough to meet the needs of forty four and half million new lives each year, it is time for him to put down the Bible and pick up a science book.

Professor explains why birth control and access to abortion services are this planet's only hope of survival.

From an interview with Professor Paul Ehrlich, author of the "Population Bomb," conducted by Raw Story:  

“Overall, careful analysis of the prospects does not provide much confidence that technology will save us or that gross domestic product can be disengaged from resource use,” the paper continued. The way to stop this is to “stop treating population growth as a ‘given’ and consider the nutritional, health and social benefits of humanely ending growth well below nine billion and starting a slow decline. This would be a monumental task, considering the momentum of population growth. Monumental, but not impossible if the political will could be generated globally to give full rights, education and opportunities to women, and provide all sexually active human beings with modern contraception and backup abortion.” 

“Giving people the right to have as many people as many children that they want is, I think, a bad idea,” Ehrlich told Raw Story. “It’s not giving people the right to have as many children as they want, it’s giving people the right to control their reproduction so that they don’t have so many children that their children’s and grandchildren’s lives are in danger.” 

“Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three unless the second pregnancy is twins,” Ehrlich continued. “That may be a hard-nosed view, but if you look at the entire situation, it’s crystal clear if we keep the populations of the rich growing, then the poor aren’t going to have a chance, and eventually, the descendants of the rich aren’t going to have a chance either.”

In short protecting the right of EVERY potential human life is to doom human beings as a species. The planet simply cannot support the population growth if it continues at the current rate.

To be TRULY pro-life is to recognize that for life to continue not every potential life should become an actual life.

Christians often take the position that life is a gift from God, and that Earth was provided for them to do with as they please. So to them God simply would not allow more children to be born than the planet could support. THAT kind of primitive thinking is simply no longer something we can afford to humor.

The reason that Fundamentalists, like Sarah Palin, fight so hard against abortion and climate change is because to admit that the progressives are correct would be to admit that their god is not omniscient, and therefore is not God. I think for many of them they really would MUCH rather doom their planet, and thereby themselves, than be forced to make such a admission.

Just ponder that for a moment.

The earths' population, how did we get so big so fast?

This is a beautifully rendered video, which does an elegant and effective job of illustrating exactly how the population explosion...exploded.

I assume that most people have a fundamental understanding that it is essentially the very thing which makes us the dominant species, our intellect, which now threatens our very existence.

As we grow ever more aware of how to curtail the effects of disease, how to grow more food, and how to increase fertility we are growing beyond the limits of this planet to contain us.

(H/T to Andrew Sullivan.)

Where are you in the 7 billion?

This tool will allow you to find where you fit in the more than 7 billion people currently populating this overcrowded planet.

I was number 3,019,000,552 and I was flabbergasted to see how steeply the population grew after my arrival on this orb in 1960.

Personally I do not understand how anybody who is aware of these numbers, and the rapidity with which the population is growing, could advocate that EVERY child conceived should be born, or argue AGAINST sex education or readily available birth control.

The population is expected to grow to over 9 billion by the year 2070, yet these conservatives seem to believe that if an egg becomes fertilized then everything must be done to add that potential human to the huge mob overrunning this planet and decimating its resources, even if the mother thinks otherwise.

That just seems unbelievably ignorant, arrogant, and fatally short sighted in my view.