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search needs original discussion  Population control is the
practice of limiting population increase, usually by reducing
the birth rate. The practice has sometimes been voluntary, as a
response to poverty, or out of religious ideology, but in some
times and places it has been government-mandated. This is
generally conducted to improve quality of life for a society or
to prevent a "Malthusian catastrophe." "Population control" has
also been conducted in the name of eugenics, racism, and the
economic self-interest of corporations to exploit citizens of
poor countries. Given the nature of human reproductive biology,
controlling the birth rate generally implies one or more of the
following practices: sexual abstinence, contraception, same-sex
relations, sterilization, abortion, or infanticide.   Orthodox
Christian ethics  Contemporary concern about population growth
would appear to be a direct contradiction between the Orthodox
Christian ethical imperati