You pretty solidly misunderstood what I was saying, which is probably my fault for not being clear. I said up top that I think the right wing panic over this i

You pretty solidly misunderstood what I was saying, which is probably my fault for not being clear. I said up top that I think the right wing panic over this is BS. Humans are definitely K-selected, and I am not against reproductive rights. What I was really arguing is that reproductive rights could in fact increase intentional human fertility if there are any levers evolution can pull to do this, and that a temporary dip in fertility caused by reproductive self-control might be followed by a large increase if this occurs. It's not something I'm hoping for or not hoping for, just an observation about how systems might respond to constraints. It's not my idea really. I'm kinda parroting something I read once about evolution: "You don't understand evolution until you understand how contraception could cause overpopulation." When you put a road block in the way of evolution, you don't get stopped traffic. You get monster trucks that roll over the road block, off road vehicles, airplanes, and tunnel borers. Life won't stop. Trying to stop it is one thing you can do to make the gods laugh. Of course you can only say "might" and "maybe." These are complex systems with loads of internal feedback loops and lots of interacting selective pressures and such. You can't predict them in any definite way. Psychohistory (ala the Foundation trilogy) is fantasy.