Sidney Sweeting, DDS
I approach this issue with the full understanding that it is an issue "where angels fear to tread" but after suffering through the images of the devastation in Haiti the almost constant mention of families that had a high number of children really begged for attention. One woman said that she had lost her husband two years ago and she has eight children to support.
Sometime in the 60's the late Dr. Andrew Esfakis tried to start a programme here in the Bahamas to educate Bahamian women on the necessity of birth control to get them to understand that they should consider only the number of children that they could educate and support but he received so much opposition from the church, one denomination in particular, that he had to shelve his plans and to this day they remain on the shelf.
There can be no doubt that there would be opposition to voluntary birth control in Haiti but when we are reminded constantly that it is the poorest country in the Caribbean and we receive reports of young children running around without clothing and constantly hungry then it is time to put the theological arguments aside and face reality. It is cruel and inhumane to do otherwise.
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