Some activists say being pro-environment means you must be anti-baby, as the Times of London reports:

Having large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a 4x4 car and failing to reuse plastic bags, according to a report to be published tomorrow by a green think tank.

The paper by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family's carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.
John Guillebaud, co-chairman of OPT and emeritus professor of family planning at University College London, said: "The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. An extra child is the equivalent of a lot of flights across the planet.

"The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child."

My wife and I have six wonderful children. Our youngest is a 4-year-old girl who -- like all 4-year-old girls -- wants a baby sister. Maybe I can talk my wife into trying for another baby, if only to protest the anti-human nonsense promoted by the Optimum Population Trust.

One popular pro-life bumper stickers says, "Save the baby humans." For the benefit of Professor Guillebaud and his baby-hating friends, I'll borrow a phrase from a popular gun-rights bumper sticker:

They can have my babies when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times