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Originally Posted by Spuds
Are you seriously proposing that the government should enforce population control by forcing people to undergo medical procedures to include terminating a pregnancy? What if they refuse? You realize the last time this was seriously considered the room was covered in swastikas right?
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We haven’t reached a point of necessary, global wars over resources and famine. We will. It is inevitable. Unless we become interplanetary or have massive natural disasters that reduce the population or naturally reduce population growth then we will have zero choice except to institute population control measures. Why and to who it was considered before is far different than what I’m suggesting. I’m not talking about eugenics. I’m talking about an equal mandate. Public sentiment would naturally shift, so such a mandate might not be necessary. It would likely become stigmatized to have a large family, or it would be necessarily avoidable because another mouth just couldn’t be supported. The latter doesn’t actually seem to make an impact. In fact, poverty tends to increase family size, as Hand Rosling pointed out. Regardless, it could be too little too late by then, so it may be necessary to be proactive.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy