Just sowing seeds today as a break from leaflets and email discussion. It's good to do something practical before I start more computer and word work. So not much time to do this but I will paste below my reply to someone who is advocating support for the Optimum Polulation Trust.
Why is it always men who bang on about population control ? OPT have appalling policies which do not recognise the reproductive rights of women but aim at the coercive end of, that's right. control. We should be promoting choice, information and the availabilty of safe effective contraception. Where women have a wealth of opportunities in education, work, their communities and social and political life, the rate of increase in population falls. Restricting benefits or trying to coerce people through taxation just pushes people into poverty.
