Excess Births

The head of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which condones more than eleven thousand unnatural births every year, has advised that schoolchildren need to be taught about infertility: "If one in seven of us in the modern world is going to have problems with infertility then instead of all the teaching at school being about how to stop getting pregnant someone had better start teaching about how you do get pregnant, because there are going to be a lot of extremely disappointed people out there." Well, only if they are also being taught that conception, gestation, parturition and being generally viviparous constitute the highest peaks of experience to which human beings should aspire. Given that the human species at its present extent is inefficient, anti-social, unhygienic, overcrowded, generally destructive and disposed to collective stupidity on a suicidal scale, perhaps it might be more responsible to teach schoolchildren that they could always adopt, foster, or simply shut down the baby factory and go and do something less harmful instead.