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Make Fewer Babies Says The Pope, But He Is Still Against Artificial Birth Control
Pope Francis kisses at Philadelphia (Photo Courtesy: Getty Images)
In a bid to save the world, Pope Francis has asked people to make fewer children, but without resorting to artificial birth control.
As the news website, LifeSiteNews reported, Botanist and environmentalist Peter Raven, one of the four panelists at a Vatican-run workshop on “how to save the natural world”, on thursday, presented the Pope’s wish that couples, “... have fewer children to make the world more sustainable”.
The workshop on “Biological Extinction” that discussed the attitude of the Church towards environmental issues, also featured pro-abortion population control advocate Dr. Paul Ehrlich, who alongwith another panelist Partha Dasgupta, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Cambridge opined that the Churches teachings and opposition to any form of artificial birth control, under the guise of “responsible parenthood” had “result[ed] in collective failure” in reducing the world’s population.
The sites reportage which explains the Church’s strong condemnation of artificial birth control on the grounds that people are “not mouths to feed” but “ gifts from God”, lists out alternatives such as “ not engaging in the marital act during the fertile period”.
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