This issue has been completly refocused to distract us from the primary issue. The single most significant contributing factor to climatic change is the number of humans on the planet. We are now approaching a point where the number of humans on the planet may exceed the planets ability to support them in our lifetime. The issue should not be challenging the parent who has decided to end a pregnancy because of the uncertainty of the childs potential future, that parent should be rewarded. The issue is allowing the continuation of a pregnancy when society beleives that the future of the potential child is not certain. We need to face the fact that the number of available slots for future humans is finite and they should not be going to candidates that have the potential to become gang members, school shooters, mass murders or some other variant the human condition that detracts from to overall good of society.

So there are a number of sub issues that need to be addressed by this, I have listed them below in the order of their improtance to the overall topic.

• The first and most significat sub issue is the absolute need to associate the success of the child in becoming a productive member of society be directly connected to the parents of that child. This comes by creating a number of rules to having a child.
  • All parents should be required to register to have a child.
  • A minimum of 2 parents (of any gender) must agree to be responsible for the child and raising that child to become a productive member of society, and by extension agree to be held responsible if their rearing of the child results in the clild becoming a threat to society.
  • Each adult is allowed to have 1 (one) child, so a family with 2 adults can have 2 children. The only exception to this is if 1 child dies. The idea that the more the merrier when it comes to the size of a family must be removed from society norms, it will result in the extinction of the species.
• While this issue is important it is subordinate to the issue above, but if the mothers health is in danger, it takes precident over the life of the child. The mother has a known value to the society, the value of what the child might become is unknown. In addition to the obvious comparison of known vs unknown, the death of the mother is also the potenial death of any future children that mother may have.
• Now the next sub-issue is really covered by the first sub-issue in that the pregnancy does not have 2 registered adults sponsoring it. However, this sub-issue needs to be examined because how it is treated needs to be changed. If the pregnancy results from a rape, the continuation of the pregnancy should be terminated in almost every case.

Every child deserves the right to have a childhood that exists in a safe nurturing environment. They should have a home with a room for the child (or children). They should have access to education (outside of the home, I will discuss so called "Home Schooling" in another area), they should have the ability to socialize with other members of society, even those who may not agree with their parents views of the world.

Now having said this it is important to re-emphasize the more immediate issue with regards to bringing new life into the world. The earths population is expanding at an ever increasing rate. People are still being congratulated for having large families. This is in direct contradiction to the realities of the limited resources available on the planet.

It is essential that we recognise that the population cannot continue to grow unchecked.

There is an old Star Trek episode that shows a planet so over populated that there is no room for people to move in. That is not a realistic criteria for when the Earth runs out of room. Long before that happens, the number of humans will tax the environment to a point where the environment cannot support the population. For example we rely on trees to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen that we can breathe, but in addition to creating more and more people we are cutting down more and more forests.

We have reached the point where we should be pushing zero population growth i.e. Each adult can produce 1 child, each couple can have 2 children. Families that have more than 2 children should be taxed and fined for damaging the community.

Another option is space exploration to establish colonies on other planets, but we are a long way away from this being a reality and we really have not spent much money on it. In fact we have retreted from space exploration since the Shuttle Program ended.