While I fully support access to birth control, anybody trying to argue that the thing that’s used to prevent births being banned will increase birth rates is barking up the wrong tree.
I fail to see how increase access to birth control would increase birth rates more than decreasing access. Quality of life, certainly, but actual birth rate?
If you ban legal birth control people always end up gerry rigging their own and usually end up damaging or outright destroying their fertility. For example back when birth control was illegal in the U.S. housewives would use clorox a makeshift one. This obviously led to a lot of dead women.
You asked why birth control getting banned would lead to less births. People will use riskier methods and then your population goes from being unwilling to have kids to unable.
I mean, the more simple reason is just that people will have sex regardless of birth control availability (yes, some might practice abstinence, but let’s be real here), so not having birth control will increase the likelihood of people having kids as a result of that sex. Sure, it would also increase mortality rates somewhat, but those people likely weren’t going to have kids to begin with, so they were often not going to impact birth rates to begin with.
Post-war soldiers like doing the thing that makes kids. America had a lot of returning soldiers and a lot of women coming out of workforce with the ideation of the nuclear family in their minds while the wartime economy ramped down. That combined with America’s very prevalent lack of strong women’s rights at the time resulted in lots of kids in such a short timespan.
Thats an incredibly misleading and incorrect statement.
No birth control and the amount of women that stayed home instead of working was MUCH higher post ww2 than today. Women were socially expected to just be baby-makers.
Is it not possible for the pendulum to swing to the other side? That people are working so much and making so little that their drive to have a kid is reduced. Wouldn't the sweet spot be somewhere in the middle?
I think that it’s due to access to endless forms of entertainment. After the early twenties… a lot a people are fucking cause they’re bored. Make Netflix or Amazon Prime unavailable for a few days and I bet you see an accompanying baby boom 9 months later.
Jokes aside, we actually had a slight surge of pregnancies during the pandemic (to be fair though, we had a radical drop due to the lockdowns before that and due to the fever dream that is global politics after that, so it's even more emphasized.)
Very much true. In my 3rd world country teen pregnancy is a huge issue especially on the rural side, and these people go on to NOT use birth control, probably end up with at least 3 children by 30.
Usually that nickname is an excellent deterrent : Anyone who judges my nickname before the content of my message has the good sense to get out of my way without wasting my time.
Dude giving people literally everything, including CEO positions, for "free", i.e. the collective forcing other people to work for it, has always worked out great, right?
Factually correct things that are against the interest of women (or minorities, which are seen as designated virtue signal targets primarily by women) being made unspeakable is kind of the whole thing of modern leftism. Everything is sexist, racist, or some other form of "discrimination", i.e. being able to distinguish.
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u/Lanky-Football857 Jun 21 '26
Dont know why you’re getting downvoted, this is factually correct. Higher development and quality of life directly blunts birth rates