Great post Banjo, I meant to comment earlier, but my internet
connection is really playing up at the moment.

Great URL too, it just shows the difference between countries
proactive on family planning and those which are not. So its
not about income, as so many claim.

Rhrosty, perhaps you should swat up on your biology. Women are at
their horniest when ovulating and if the Catholic rythm method
actually worked, it would not have been such a dismal failure in
the real world. Modern family planning has been the way that the
West addressed too many children and its worked like a charm. It
works like a charm too in developing countries, when people are
given the opportunity and not denied it by religious dogma, as in
the Phillippines.

Rhrosty,
If you read this link, that i posted in my last post, you will see the difference between 2 Asian countries, Thailand and the Phillipines, where one government got involved in family planning and the other did not. There is a startling difference now between the economies of the countries. Here is the link again,

http://opinion.inquirer.net/9489/family-planning-in-thailand-ph

You will see that Thailand has a far better economy, and a lower birthrate, meaning more funds can be spent on education and health, etc. Lower birthrates lead to a better standard of living.

What a wonderful world it would be if there were only one billion people in the world right now, instead of 7billion and rising.

Tigers and other major animal species would still have lots of room to survive instead of being driven to the point of extinction. The warming of the earth would be non-existent.

Still we have these religious leaders forbidding contraception. Are they mad or just unable to see reality.