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Tuesday, July 06, 2004

lower birth rate by contraception = economic growth

This is a fallacy of those who want birth control to be forced upon the penises, vaginas, wombs and mouths of many Filipinos.

This is simply not true.

Look at Latin America, its birth rate are about half of the Philippines. Where is the economic growth there?

[For Latin America's birth rates, look it up at CIA World Fact Book]