>I really don't know what you're saying here, but just to make myself
>perfectly clear (as that great liberal Nixon used to say), I find
>Barro's phrasing repellent, and a sign that the eugenic impulse is
>quite alive in the U.S. elite. Human beings are not weeds. I'm all
>for free abortion and contraception - but to promote the freedom of
>women, not as a method of "improving" the population.
How could that (free abortion and contraception) not do both? And is there something wrong with a position that improves the population?
Martin