Imagine a likely future of technological ease (but not post-scarcity) led by a gerontocracy imperiled by rapid depopulation and austerity. There will be immense

Imagine a likely future of technological ease (but not post-scarcity) led by a gerontocracy imperiled by rapid depopulation and austerity. There will be immense pressure both from secular and religious sides to develop new childcare assistance and replacement systems if it means encouraging more souls to be born and to carry on society/progress. It will probably be a combination of plush parent/foster benefits, collectivization of care into academies, and robotics. They may even develop new embryos in vitro from random (or designed) combinations, completely besides the abortion question. The looming birth rate deficit is far larger than the amount of abortions.