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Rejecting forced population control.

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With the popularity of Marvel/Disney's Avengers and the story line concerning Thanos, it's probably inevitable that people would start talking about overpopulation. And some of those conversations are going to bring out people who support eco-fascist ideas like forced population control. It think it's essential to reject these ideas as strongly as possible. Bodily autonomy, and reproductive rights are very important topics that everyone should make an effort to educate themselves about. We only have to take a look at the history books to see why concepts like forced sterilization or selective breeding must be consigned to the dustbin of history. Whether a woman chooses to have a baby or not must be her choice to make. Eugenics. We all know about the National Socialists of 1940s Germany and their attempts to engineer a "master race", but it was not only jack-booted Far right movements who were involved in attempts to control human reproductio...