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Banning contraceptives has been tried many times. Check out the story of Ceaușescu and the Romanian orphans[1]. The Catholic countries in Western Europe (Irel
by tuatoru 5y ago
Banning contraceptives has been tried many times.
Check out the story of Ceaușescu and the Romanian orphans[1].
The Catholic countries in Western Europe (Ireland, Spain, Portugal, etc) notoriously had much lower fertility rates than secular, Orthodox, and Protestant countries for decades before the Catholic ban on contraception was lifted.
TLDR: banning contraceptives causes great suffering and doesn't materially shift fertility trends.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans