Controling World Population Through Reproduction Education In Developing Countries

With the world’s population doubling, on average every twenty- six years, it is difficult for the earth to supply the resources that humans need and use everyday. The necessities are becoming harder to access. Food is one of the hardest necessities to keep updated. Many developing countries are located in parts of the world where the soil is bad, the weather is not consist enough to help with crop growth, and there is a lack of efficient farming equipment. Due to the soil lacking the minerals that is needed to grow crops, people have a hard producing enough to feed their families and to still have enough left over to sell and

“A Catholic can never conform to a law which is in itself immoral, and such is the case of the law which would admit in principle the licitness of abortion. Nor can a Catholic take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such law, or vote for it. Moreover, he may not collaborate in its application.” (Vatican)

The most effective way to control the world’s population growth is to provide reproductive health education to developing countries. When given reproductive health education, citizens of developing countries help control and slow the world’s growing population rate. Once the population growth slows down, many enviromental problems can be focused on and possibly stoped. Many governments are willing to step up and fund reproductive health education. However, some cannot support this due to religious or economic restrictions. This information will help people protect themselves, their loved ones and the world around them.

The country of Malaysia has contradicted themselves over the past 40 years. Since 1966, the government had a population policy that was woven into their development plans. The policy focused on improving the health and welfare of women and children, increasing the education level, improving living standards and reducing the population level. Funding for family planning had been a major priority during this period; the government itself had been the biggest contributor. Then in 1990, the government announced a new population policy. The policy was easily understood:

“Malaysia’s population is relatively small and the nation has the capacity to generate the wealth that will support a much larger population. Recognizing that a larger population constitutes an important human resource to create a large consumer base with increasing purchasing power to generate and support industrial growth through productive exploitation of human resources, Malaysia could plan for a larger population, which could ultimately reach 70 million. The experience of some countries of similar size to Malaysia has shown that a larger population is not necessarily a liability if the population is provided with skills that can be effectively and productively utilized for national development.”(Abdullah, 67)

This is telling a person that if they are a true Catholic that they will not take part in any issue involving abortion matters. The Church believes that the current abortion laws in the U.S. are “harmful to the Church.” However, minimizing the number of abortions done in the U.S. is in turn helpful to the Church. Civil laws that legalize contraceptives and abortion are a big challenge to the Pope, which forces him to be the ultimate authority of these matters. In 1995, Pope John Paul II wrote his encyclical Gospel of Life. In it, he instructs Catholics to resist civil laws that he deems illegitimate and to impose Catholic teachings on Americans through “political commitment,” even if they have to sacrifice their lives to do so. It states that:

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