From Mr P. J. Taylor, MRPharmS
SIR,-With reference to the article by Onlooker "Future envisaged" (PJ, May 13, p710), while agreeing with much that he has written, I cannot understand why it is that whenever the subject is raised, no one ever dares to suggest that people of all races, the British included, should be discouraged from breeding.
In this country, every encouragement is given. Young, single women, often little more than children, are given living accommodation and free handouts, for everything from clothes to furniture, as well as food.
Those who cannot naturally reproduce are treated, often by the cash-starved National Health Service, so that they can.
In my local newspaper this week, I read of a local woman who has made a habit of being a surrogate mother. (She produced twin girls for a French couple, who refused them because they wanted boys. These poor babies were finally handed to a lesbian couple and the woman now complains she is left with a £25,000 medical bill which the lesbians refuse to pay.)
Governments in Europe give child allowances, Britain included. People should be taught that they are wholly responsible for the upkeep of their children and when youngsters, some as young as 12 years, have babies, their clearly irresponsible parents should be made to support them. This would make them control their own.
If the population were reduced, the earth would not be covered with buildings, animals would again live normally with freedom to roam the fields, and global warming would be reduced. There would be enough land to grow food for all, particularly if vegetarianism and veganism were encouraged.
P. J. Taylor
Burntwood, Staffordshire