Choosing War Planes Over Reproductive Health and Family Planning-Dogma Blinds Again

A woman sleeping on the street with her four children and their father holds up a baby, begging for money. They have nowhere to live and do not know where their next meal will come from, yet she is clearly pregnant with yet another child. When the population was far less than what it is now, there was an abundance of fish, forests,coral, mangroves, clean water, air. Now that the human population has exploded, the environment has been enormously degraded and depleted. A once self sufficient country that met its own agricultural needs, is now dependent on other nations to meet its food needs. Just like the pregnant woman begging on the streets with her four children, nations can become beggars, mired in poverty and despair. The country finally passed a reproductive health bill three years ago. But now it has been de-funded. An archbishop applauded this move. So did other prominent people whose own lives are not drowning in desperate poverty. What is the logic behind such applause? Are millions of malnourished children already living in poverty not enough? Are millions already living on the streets, in shantytowns, in vast slums, not enough? Does the reproductive health of women not matter? Is there a failure to understand that lack of safe, sound family planning means a rise in abortions, legal or not, even in countries where they are illegal, and that place the lives of women at risk? Nowhere on the table is making abortion legal the issue. This is about safe, sound family planning in an overpopulated country. A senator idiotically declared that the billion in currency that would have been spent for reproductive health was used to fund the purchase of war planes, considering the situation in the South China sea with China. (More living proof for the need for term limits for elected officials, regardless of the country). Warplanes over human health, reducing poverty, saving the environment.Even though a million new warplanes will not stop what China is now doing in the South China Sea. Everyone knows the two countries will not go to war over the Chinese destruction of these invaluable coral reef islands(an environmental crime-killing the reefs and fisheries of the already degraded South China Sea). What can be done will not be done. Namely, cancel lucrative Chinese business contracts. But too many politicians are making fortunes from their trade with China. And some politicians and others will make fortunes from the useless purchases of warplanes. Over 100 million people in an overpopulated country has resulted in what is visible for anyone not blind by the loss of vision or dogma can see- millions living in slums, shantytowns, on the streets. Millions of malnourished people, stunting the growth and health of millions of children. Millions that will never have a chance for a living wage, a decent job, a decent future. Millions desperately trying to flee the country for a chance at a decent job(often at great risk, and from which many will be exploited). Millions stuck everyday for countless wasted hours in choking traffic because the infrastructure was never designed for the massive population that now exists. The near complete loss of wildlife, forests, mangroves coral reefs. The huge decline in fishing and marine populations in a nation that once was rich with marine life. What will the country look like in 50 years if it cannot bring its population under control? It will mean a living hell for millions more than the millions already living in a living hell. And it will be the end for the small amount of wildlife, marine and terrestrial, that still exists.