To the Editor:

Re: “Overpopeulation: The Church’s Condom Code and Demographic Disaster,” Opinion, March 25

As a sometimes practical Catholic, I find the article a bit disconcerting. He starts by making a claim that the earth cannot sustain a population of more than two billion, which I find somewhat shaky, and then goes on to imply if the Roman Church were to endorse condom use, this problem would be solved, ignoring the fact that the area of the world with the fastest population growth is Asia, an area of the world decidedly lacking in Roman Catholics.

If the author disagrees with the Catholic Church’s position on prophylatics on the basis of it being a women’s rights issue, as he seems to do toward the end of the article, then he should couch his arguments in that, or perhaps in the fact that it prevents the spread of HIV, a serious human rights issue. It is not, nor should it be, the job of the church to control population. There are many arguments for the church’s reversal of their policy, but that is easily one of the most ridiculous I’ve heard.

Daniel Dauplaise ’07