Human Birth Control can reduce Poverty

SetyaPutra.Org — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:28:47 +0000

Human Birth Control

According to emedicinehealth.com birth control is preventing pregnancy.

Today, the voluntary control of fertility is of paramount importance to modern society. For centuries, humans have relied upon their imagination to avoid pregnancy.

Egyptian ancient writings dating back to 1850 BC refer to techniques using a device placed in a woman’s vagina made of crocodile dung and fermented dough, which most likely created a hostile environment for sperm. Other items placed in the vagina included plugs of gum, honey, and acacia.
During the early second century in Rome, a highly acidic concoction of fruits, nuts, and wool was placed on the cervix as a type of spermicidal barrier.

From a global perspective, countries currently face the crisis of rapid growth of the human population that has begun to threaten human survival. According to the Population Reference Bureau’s 2003 World Population Data Sheet, the world’s current growth rate is 1.3%. Based on this growth rate, the population would double in 53.8 years. The less developed world’s natural increase rate (births minus deaths, without migration) is 1.6%; therefore, population in these countries would double in 43.8 years.

Poverty

Poverty is the deprivation of common necessities such as food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, all of which determine our quality of life. It may also include the lack of access to opportunities such as education and employment which aid the escape from poverty and/or allow one to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens (source : wikipedia.org).

According to World Bank, Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom.

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Birth, rapid growth of the human birth would double in less than 40 years. So you can imagine that if in one country have more people than availability of the land they can life in it, a lot of problem will be rise and this country threaten by chaos from its people that hunger for food, place or money that not enough for all people.

Human population, with big human population on country like Indonesia would reduce oppurtunity to have job, to have enough income to meet their basic needs, to have decent health services, etc.

Poverty, some nations deals the poverty even they only have less human population. But a lot of nations deals with poverty because they have a lot of people is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. This situation is because more people living in one little space or land than job’s supply. Unemployment rate would rise and poverty will be all over these countries.

Birth Control, this method would reduce growth rate of human population in a country and hope that people have enough food, place or money to fulfill their basic needs. Less human population would supplied more job to fulfill in this country and would reduce poverty.

Some people or expert would say that it’s not true that birth control alone will reduce poverty because poverty have a lot of aspects to look for. Yes, I agree with you completely. But at least birth control will be one giant step to stop poverty because a lot of country that have big population growth also have big poverty problem.

For example, Indonesia. When Orde Baru regim rules, they have birth control program known as Keluarga Berencana with the slogan “Dua Anak Cukup“. With this program or slogan, Orde Baru regim can reduce poverty rate that rise when Orde Lama regim rules this country. A lot of people can have a job and food price reachable by the people’s income.

Now, after Orde Baru falls, the birth control program still exist and supervised by goverment bureau called BKKBN. But this bureau still can not control human population because Indonesia government bussy to defend themself from impeachment threaten by parlement’s member so this program is not top priority so BKKBN not have enough resources to control human population in Indonesia. Because of that, human population in Indonesia rise about 20 millions people in just 10 years. With about 200 millions people live in Indonesia now, definitely would rise poverty rate.

Solution

If Indonesia government want to reduce poverty rate, they have to activate again Keluarga Berencana program and stimulate this program with grant or compliment from government for their people if they do this program in their family. Yes, this is only one solution to reduce poverty beside a lot of solutions like rise GDP, lower food price, and give people job’s oppurtunity, but this one solution is almost 60% will reduce poverty rate because birth control have multiple effect to poverty causes.

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Human Birth Control can reduce Poverty

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