By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Among the Demon’s most prominent prophets of Irrational Fear over the last fifty years was Paul Ehrlich, who wrote the wildly popular book, The Population Bomb. Babies were taking over the world and would soon consume all the food like locusts! Those little critters had to be stopped. So we spent billions on population control—peddling condoms, chemicals, and abortion clinics—in honor of a simple diabolical belief: There are way too many of you, but just enough of me... The result? A massive global birth dearth. The fertility rate in the U.S. has fallen to 1.6 per woman, well below the 2.1 replacement rate.