If you look at population growth, then most of us (perhaps not Denise) would agree that we don't really need any more people on this planet. And if you look historically at family sizes, people have large numbers of children when they feel a good portion of them won't survive. However once infant mortality drops, family sizes decrease. 

This happened in Europe and North American in the 19th-20th C. as health care and sanitation wiped out diseases and epidemics. The same thing happened in Bangladesh over the last 20 or so years as healthcare improved. And probably a lot of this was driven by women who didn't want to have that many children (my assumption, but I suspect is true).

However it obviously wouldn't be much of a column if Denise couldn't display some 'outrage'.