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> mandatory contraceptive Starts to sound a lot like eugenics. All the evidence suggests that if you raise standards of living and give women control of their
by ForHackernews 6y ago
> mandatory contraceptive
Starts to sound a lot like eugenics.
All the evidence suggests that if you raise standards of living and give women control of their own fertility, then birth rates drop naturally (and fairly rapidly). Turns out, when given the choice, most women prefer to have one or two children. This trend has been replicated across (all?) developed countries with very different cultures.
There's no reason to believe the kind of coercion you're proposing is necessary, if you could even justify it ethically.
- zo1 6y agoI didn't say mandatory contraceptives, there was a whole sentence you missed the ending of. "comprehensive and mandatory contraceptive, health-information and birth control drives" You make it sound like like I'm saying people need to be forced to use contraceptives. Guess the phrasing is not great. Maybe 'program' would have been better? But the mandatory modifier was on the drive/program, not the usage of contraceptives.
- ForHackernews 6y agoIt still seems very ethically dubious to me to have a bunch of rich people (with absolutely massive carbon footprints) telling a bunch of poor people they need to get their birth rate down. If you were serious about a programme like this, you should at least phrase it in terms of carrots, not sticks: if you embrace feminism, educate and empower your female citizens, we'll reward that with increased foreign direct investment.