General Discussion

Fewer deaths due to disease (hence longer lives), higher infant survival rate, better nutrition, fewer wars.

Heck, even in vitro fertilization adds more to the population than folks like Octomom. Octomom must cause some special kind of revulsion and feeling-based thinking.

Why privilege the living over the non-living? (I had this dispute with students who wanted all kind of perks regardless of what it did to the college in 5 years--after all, they had rights that those who would come later couldn't possibly have.)

Want population reduction? Dispose of all the things that produce larger populations. High birth rates preceded all these later perks.

It's one solution. Just not one that makes life convenient for those living in the West, so the OP wouldn't like it.