Abortion wouldn't have anywhere near the long term impact as sterilization of mass cutdowns in birth. Overpopulated areas tend to sort themselves out, if you get what I'm saying.

I don't necessarily mean huge amounts of sterilization, just smaller amounts.  As Rath suggested, perhaps just make it voluntary.

I understand what you are saying, but let's just put this in perspective.

There isn't a food shortage in Africa because of a lack of food to feed them.  There is foot shortage because dictators steal the food that UNICEF and other humanitarian organizations deliver to them... they do it because they want to starve rival tribes.  Africa is a tribal continent (one of my close friends is the son of a leader of one of the dominant tribes, so I know a thing or two about this subject)

And even more importantly is this:

We are not running out of land or resources on planet Earth contrary to popular belief.

The state of Texas alone has 172,044,800 acres in it.  Considering the average home is on a .12 acre plot, that means approximately 8 families of four (which is a global average) can fit on a one acre plot comfortably.

Therefore, 32 people can comfortably fit on a one acre plot (with a front/back yard and average size home).

Now, take 32 and multiply that times 172,044,800 acres, and you come up with...

5,505,433,600 people can COMFORTABLY fit in the state of Texas alone... in other words, 5.5 BILLION people can fit comfortably in Texas alone, leaving only 10% more people to fit into the rest of the globe.

There are a total of 36,480,000,000 acres on planet Earth... yes, that means that Texas only encompasses 0.4761% of the Earth total space.  So if the entire planet can fit on less than 0.5% of the Earths land, how is that we are running out of room?

Silence is golden.

Im really happy for your baby brother and the good cause your parents have contributed to. But not everyone is able to afford treatment or provide such a quality of life. Now imagine if your brother was born to a family that couldnt afford any of this and he had to lead a life without half the therapy or treatment he has recieved, would you condone that?

My folks did want to have me aborted since i was an unplanned pregnancy and honestly it did hurt when my mom said that my father wanted to have me aborted but Im sure if they did, they would have thought long and hard and done what was best for them. My cousin has CP and honestly it breaks my heart everytime I meet him. Its not an easy life and not for everyone.And people should honestly be given the option to decide. Especially teenage girls who have no idea what they are getting themselves into.Sometimes it is easier to abort than to give away a child you gave birth to.If society frowns on abortion it also frowns on preganant teenagers. thats a little hypocritical isnt it? Early onset pregancy raises chances of cervical cancer as well, so there is some medical fact to it.

@Comrade Tovya.

Overpopulation isn't population density on its own, overpopulation is a state in which the land cannot provide the resources necessary to maintain the amount of life currently inhabating it.

The US has a lot more resources per square kilometre than any African country, therefore, it can sustain a lot more life per square kilometre, meaning that a greater population density in the US has less impact than one in the before mentioned African nation.

A good example of this is China and the UK. The UK has roughly 100 more people per square kilometre than PR China, however the UK has the resources to maintain life, moreso than PR China. When was the last time you heard of the UK government restricting births to one per couple?

8.8% of the worlds land( thats china and india) houses 1/3rd of the world population(1.3+1.1billion).The problem isnt land itself but disparity in the distribution of land. Russia/Canada/Australia have 23.4% of the worlds land but only around 200 million of the world population(thats barely 3% of people who have 1/4th the world land area). Africa has food problems partly becuase of illetracy and how the west has exploited it- the french with rwanda, the US with somalia/libya etc. and debeers with every diamond producing nation there is. Giving countries oil for food is not a way to save them. Its a means to weaken them to the point where they have to beg for basic resources to give up whatever natural resources they have.

Well we can get into that if you'd like.  I actually just read that the United States alone can feed the Earth 5 times over considering the amount of arable land in this nation alone, but the Feds are still paying farmers NOT to till the land.  Russia for instance, although it doesn't take advantage of it, has nearly twice the arable land of the United States.  And Europe has some of the most furtile soils in the world as well... nearly equal in size to the U.S.

And land that is considered "unfarmable" is also a big myth.  The brilliant Israelis have been proving that for 60 years.

When the first Jews re-settled there, they literally turned a 100% desert nation into a fertile nation capable of self-sustainment.

And land can be made fertile with the proper irrigation and rotation techniques.  We are not cavemen.

The problem with Africa and SE Asia is that they are too busy oppressing themselves to change.  They are their own worst enemies.  They are more concerned with tribal warfare and ancient hatreds than sustaining themselves.  World poverty & hunger will be destroyed when the poor bastards in 3rd world countries say that enough is enough and stand up and fight for freedom.  And the rest of the free world should march behind them and support this.

It's not just food, wat about water? Drinking water is a scarcity in many parts of the world and the cost of turning salt water into drinking water is through the roof. You then have to consider healthcare, and nations gain more resources through economic growth, which requires education.

None of this stuff comes cheap.

Once again, it has been proven, by the Israelis, that de-salting ocean water can be done in a cost effective fashion.  I am not against conservation by any means.  I am an ardent environmentalist...

The problem we have now is not a lack of resources, but a serious wasting of resources. 

On top of this, the Nile River alone discharges 300 million cubic metres of water everyday into the Mediteranean Sea.

There are 33814 in a cubic meter... so the Nile River ALONE discharges 10,144,200,000,000-oz. (yes, that's over 10-trillion ounces of water a day)

The average human is recommended to drink 32-oz. per day.  That means that the Nile River ALONE can sustain the drinking needs of 317,006,250,000 people.  (that's over 317-billion people).  And that's only one river amongst tens of thousands of rivers across the globe.

So the myth that we are running out of water is also wrong... there's plenty to go around.

And I thought mass depopulation was by hawkish right wing nutjobs ;)  OT, it any guy can become a dad.  It takes a real man to become a father.  Trust me, I know how it is..