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Baroness Hollis of Heigham, a Work and Pensions minister, has told Parliament that the current ratio of 3-4 working people per retired person in England and,Wales would fall to around 2-4 by 2030, and that "an increase in the birth rate would help to reduce any future demographic pressure on the National Insurance Fund" (Written Answers, House of Lords, Hansard, 30 July 02, quoted in SPUC News. Paul Tully, SPUC's General Secretary, commented: " This is perhaps the first realisation by this government that the decline in births, caused by the culture of abortion and population control, threatens the welfare state." But RU 486, the human pesticide, and the "morning-after pill" are still being officially promoted.
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