One might ask is it a dictate from god? Or is it a manifestation of his own experiential data; but that would be too empirical of a question for them to answer. But that does not stop the legitimacy of his statements. It is not so much what we do as to how many of use are doing it! And it is a question of morality if someone will take control of their own life in all its aspects. But then end result of that line of thought is returning to the life of a hunter and gatherer. But this rock will not support 6 billion hunters and gatherers. The only solution is to stop population growth and that would be disastrous for the economy and the stock market will have nothing of that!
And so there is that question of birth control; earlier in human history when it was actually a lot hard to get a child to adulthood, unscathed , as to why every soul was considered so much more precious than now when we are OD'ed on souls. Maybe familiarity does breed contempt. One might even question if homosexuality being legitimized, is part of a greater conspiracy to bring our resource usage down. But I believe that is giving to much credit to humanity for intelligence it does not posses as a collective! It is this disastrous rise in souls that bring an end to our current free ways of life eventually.
There are those who believe the Church still believes every soul is precious because when he returns, 30% of the population will make the translation; so the more souls here, the more souls that will move on!