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Climate change experts have previously recommended that people cut their meat intake to slow global warming by reducing the numbers of animals using the world's resources. Now the British medical journal, Lancet, wants access to free condoms or other birth control methods to slow rates of population growth, possibly easing the pressure on the environment.

The Lancet advocates issuing birth control without a prescription, according to the Wall Street Journal health blog. Because the Lancet editorializes, oral birth control "is a potentially powerful cancer-preventing agent.” (A complete reversal of the Lancet 2007 assertion that birth control is strongly linked to cervical cancer.In that instance, they said that since cervical cancer was reversible, the benefits outweighed the risks.)

The Lancet, you might remember, published the discredited study that 650,000 Iraqi civilians died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. Wikipedia entry on the controversy.

It's not their only brush with the kind of notoriety you would not expect of a "respected" medical journal. And it is deeply disturbing that a journal dedicated to the science of medicine should advocate birth control and abortion for the impoverished because they impoverished. And because it would be the greater good.