A Plan to Decrease Fertility

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/opinion/fertility.html

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To the Editor:

Re “The Middle East’s Male Infertility Fix” (Sunday Review, Oct. 22):

Marcia C. Inhorn provides important insight into the stigma associated with male infertility, and ways in which this was dealt with in Egypt.

But in the face of a growing world population (now at 7.6 billion, projected by the United Nations to reach 11.2 billion by 2100), climate change and concerns about mass starvation, one should consider decreasing fertility as a natural response to overpopulation.

Rather than increasing expenditures to produce more children, we should use those funds to improve the circumstances of those we are currently producing, and to create a better world for the existing population.

MICHAEL E. SHAPIRO UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J.