ed health care has, paradoxically, brought its own disadvantages. People are living longer (hence an Moen 7increase in the geriatric population), and more babies are surviving. In the nineteenth century the population grew rapidly in all European countries except France, Spain, and Ireland: all countries with legalized abortion (Kenyon211).There is no doubt that there is an alarming increase in the world's population. Every 10 seconds there are 39 births in the world and only 16 deaths. If this worked out at a two- percent increase per year, then the world population would double in a 40-year period. Put another way, the world population is growing about 75 million per year, with the highest rate of increase in Latin America, Africa, and Asia: places with laws restricting abortion. To place the abortion part of the debate in perspective, the United Nations, through UNICEF, estimated that in 1982 more than 17 million children (one every two seconds) died from disease and starvation.There are many ways of trying to regulate the population, some obvious and others less so. The four basic ways are contraception, sterilization, abortion, and infanticide. Sociocultural factors can be involved- for example, the restriction of marriage, and procreation contingent on caste, tribe, or taboos. Religious sanctions can be used, and laws can be passed to regulate 'promiscuity', prostitution, pornography, the age of 'consent', and marriage. These are just a few of the many ways to prevent population rises.Some of these methods of population control have been enshrined in legislation: but how far should legislation reflect the majority view, or set the trend for futureMoen 8change, or indeed be ahead of its time and 'public opinion'? This is not an easy matter to settle (Kenyon 211-215).So how does population control help the prosperity of the economy? First of all, controlling the population helps limit the poverty rate. The more people there are in t...
