What you said--you said it better than I could have, because you said it based on more familiarity with Fritz Lang. It's a case of writing A Modest Proposal and having everyone write grants for feeding the poor on their own babies.

Sovay, I say this based on what you said in the coffee-in-the-face paragraph. The too-many-bodies just sounds like too many bodies, and it's just depressing reality that in general the public doesn't seem to care about too many bodies, especially female ones.