• yesman@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    If you teach women about their bodies and give them the choice, they will have fewer children.

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      True, but they also have more options for birth control. And a family needs two working parents to have a children nowadays as well.

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        Also, until recently, childhood vaccines prevented a lot of the deaths that made having tons of kids a necessity.

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        True, but they also have more options for birth control.

        That’s the choice that yesman is talking about. Birth control and abortion.