War, drunk drivers and “Hey–watch this!” stunts may deprive us of some of our hoped for comfort as we prepare to leave this world, but there’s a more dramatic cause. In the 50s and 60s, U.S. birthrates were nearly double what they have been since then. The pill, abortion and the infestation of the feminist movement by population controllers are the most obvious underlying causes of Ms. Gross’s anguish. Too many folks have drunk the Koolaid brewed from the ideas of Malthus, Sanger and Ehrlich.