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		sigwinch 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States I think you’d lose that bet. Women die in childbirth regularly. And it’s not birth control but our stratospheric advances against infant mortality that most strongly influence population dynamics.

txrx0000 12 days ago [–]

Nope. In this case it's definitely birth control. Birth rate got cut in half when the pill was introduced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pi...

I mean, come on, it's literally called "birth control". It would be strange if it didn't affect birth rate.

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