Gross Overpopulation Is One Issue That Is Suicide For Any Politician To Address. We Are In Crisis.

[meadowlander]

31. +1.

In every nation where women have control over their own sexuality and reproduction, birth rates are dropping below the replacement rate.

This is doubly so in countries where women are educated, can throw off the shackles of superstition and can choose a career for themselves.

The One Child Policy in China doesn't really work in addition to being a gross human rights violation. The rich can get around it by buying the rights to have a second child. The poor are forced to get abortions or they have additional unregistered kids that then can't access the education system. I remember walking down a street in Shanghai and seeing a group of mothers talking to each other in a park and as soon as they heard a siren in the distance they all tore off in different directions with their strollers. Being born should not be a crime, and criminalising birth just creates a class of "illegals" within your own country who don't have the opportunity to access any services and grow up to be beggars and thieves.

It also means that young girls who want to have more than one child basically throw themselves at every foreigner they see because they represent their only chance. This results in a lot of unhappy marriages.