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| Sep 24, 2019 at 12:20 | comment | added | aniline hates nazis and pedos | Abortion ("abortion culture", seriously?) is not a cause of low births, it's a consequence of poor access to contraception. 30% of the population are below the poverty line, abortion is covered by insurance, contraception isn't. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 10:34 | comment | added | Luaan | Somehow I doubt the abortion rates account for the fact that the same woman might have an abortion multiple times in the time it would take her to deliver a baby, recover from that and have another baby. So it might be true that there are as many abortions as 1% of the population, but the implication that this means another -1% to population growth is misleading at best. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 9:02 | comment | added | grovkin | Interesting, but you can't discount collapsing birth rates which have all but become a cultural phenomenon. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 1:26 | history | answered | user4012 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |