7 Billion Baby

For advocates of population control, it is normal for the expected birth of the world 7000000000: e the child falls on Halloween. For them it is a worrying development which portends a higher risk of poverty, hunger and financial instability.

From another point of view, but "this child is a blessing." Is how Kathryn Lopez at National Review Online describes the event in his interview with Anna Halpin, founder and CEO of World Youth Alliance (WYA). This year, pro-life youth organization focused on international population and the Economy: Investing in the individual. Each new life should be allowed, they argue, is considered a new potential for creativity and innovation that contributes to the opportunities and growth.

After all, you never know when the next child could grow up to be a Steve Jobs or a Mother Teresa.

Because of this view is often WYA pushing the work of the United Nations and related organizations such as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and UNICEF, which apparently upset by the growing population. The solution, according to some in the UN, is to increase the "population control" efforts through better access to contraception and abortion. The pressure of the UN in developing countries to eliminate the regulation or prohibition of abortion.

In an essay contributed to the heritage collection indivisible social and economic foundations of Liberty, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins points on predictions that advocates population control "are disastrous skiing: