At current growth rates. we will add more humans In the next 50 years than In all previous 500.000 years of human history. In the next decade alone. world population will Increase by 1 billion people. This growth means more than longer lines at Safeway or at the local drug store. Unrestrained population growth devastates environmental resources. exacerbates Immigration pressures. and raises the specter of worldwide malnutrition and the spread of Infectious diseases. I also support family planning funds because I support healthy families. Numerous studies have documented that mortality rates for women and children are highest when births are too close together. when women have many children. and when women give birth at very young and old ages.
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