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Pro-life/anti-birth control feel to one of the songs?


It was the song, "There's Room for Everyone in This World". Did anyone else notice it? It was the 1970's and "doom and gloom" prophets were predicting the end of the world if people didn't stop having babies; they said we'd run out of food! How stupid! We're all still here, dammit!

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We're still here, there's still plenty of food, and there're enough houses in this country every single homeless person could occupy two empty ones. Room enough indeed!

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I don’t see it as having anything to do with pro-life. It is a reaction to the local fishermen blaming Pete and his dragon on them catching no fish and wanting them to leave. So, to me it sounds anti-xenophobic.

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As if population control is the only reasons to use birth control.

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That's how I took it back in the day and the song irritated the hell out of me. Forty years later not so bad.

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