I do not advocate the act of having children or that of not having children. I was merely advocating empathy for peoples facing genocide.

In any struggle, and on any issue, critical to understanding is the knowledge of what people are the oppressed and which are the oppressors. Putting an equal sign between a Jew wanting to have children after the holocaust so that the Jews would survive and Hitler advocating the birth of more "perfect" and "genetically pure" Arians misses this key point. Empathy for the oppressed and their desire to survive as peoples is critical to the liberation of humanity.

Likewise women are oppressed under capitalism and decisions to have, or not have children are an essential woman's right. In revolutionary Cuba abortion is free on demand and other birth control is available. In the opposite, one of the first acts of the CIA/Catholic/capitalist/Solidarnosc counter-revolution in Poland was to make abortion illegal.

We, however, also should not assume that decisions by oppressed people to have children are all made by men.

In addition, if we are sane enough to see, the politics of resistance could never, or only very rarely, be the only reason a person or a couple decides to have a child. I think we are talking here mainly only of an additional motivation. In general all parents love their children, this cuts across all ethnic, economic, and political divisions. Even the Arab Palestinians that are constantly lied about and demonized by the American corporate media while they are murdered by American corporate weapons love their children.

"Overpopulation" on the other hand is an all to often used excuse used by the capitalists that run almost the entire planet used to justify their crimes of exploitation and environmental degradation. People are not hungry in Africa because of overpopulation; Africa has a very low population per square mile compared to the rest of the world. They are hungry because of imperialist exploitation.

Likewise it is not so much population that is harming the planet, but the rampant consumerism, planned obsolescence, and organized resistance o alternatives to fossil fuels; all pushed by the capitalists, that have created an environmental nightmare.