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Any rate of reproduction over replacement level is probably irresponsible, at this point, from a global perspective. We could probably stand to reduce the population down by a couple billion.

It's also easier to have ten children when you start having them at 15 or sixteen, like my grandmother did, rather than at 30, as many are doing now.

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My comment was satirical. I think women should have choice. I believe that improvement in child mortality was because of contraception and not advances made in health.

Showing a graph with improvements in child mortality rate and alluding us to believe in the following is wrong.

1. It happened because of living conditions. 2. Healthier diet — made possible through higher productivity in the agricultural sector and overseas trade. 3. age-old war against infectious disease 4. discovery of the germ theory of disease 5. development of antibiotics and vaccines

While I believe that contraception has improved child mortality rate. We should compare child mortality rate of first 2 children over the past 200 years. Child mortality will obviously be high when women have no choice.

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