As Birth Rates Plummet, Women’s Independence Will Be More At Risk

History tells us that every freedom has its reasons. In 1920, the Soviet Union became the first country in the world to legalize abortion, as part of a socialist commitment to the health and well-being of women. Sixteen years later, that decision was reversed when Stalin came to power and realized that the birth rate was falling.

The international pressure to increase the population has not stopped. But in 2025, social inequality will increase – and the victims will be gender equality. In both United States and United Kingdomthe number of children born has been falling for 15 years. In Japan, Poland, and Canada, the fertility rate has already fallen to 1.3. In China and Italy, that is 1.2. South Korea has the lowest in the world, at 0.72. A study published by the medical journal Lancet predicts that by 2100, approx every country in the world not having enough children to increase the population.

The good news about this is that women have more access to birth control, are better educated than ever before, and are working which means they can avoid or delay having children. Parents are investing a lot in every child they have. The patriarchal expectation that women should be the breadwinners is thankfully fading away.

But the first problem remains: How do countries produce more children? Governments have responded with pleas and incentives to encourage families to reproduce. Hungary is abolished the income tax for women under the age of 30. In 2023, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un appeared. crying on TV where he encouraged the National Conference of Mothers to play a role in preventing the decline in the number of births. In Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has supported the campaign to reach the minimum half a million births per year by 2033.

However, when these measures fail to have any effect, the pressure on women worsens. Pro-natalist movements they are promoting traditional nuclear families with many children, which is only possible if women give birth early. These thoughts little by little information about the drastic reduction in access to abortion in some US states. Anyone who thinks that abortion rights are not related to public concerns should know that in the summer of 2024, the US Senate Republicans also voted against it. Adoption is a federal right. This egalitarian worldview leads to a growing conflict against heterosexual minorities, whose presence poses a threat to the traditional family. Very dangerous pro-natalists they also include white believers and occultists.

As countries become more concerned about the birth rate, the threat to the rights of men and women increases. In China, for example, the government has taken over strong anti-feminist stance in recent years. President Xi Jinping told the All-China Women’s Federation meeting in 2023 that women “must develop a new culture of marriage and childbearing.”

Currently, most women can decide if, when, and how many children to have. But as the fertility rate falls below the replacement rate, it is unclear how far some countries will go to increase their population. 2025 looks like the year their decision will be overturned.