One of the occasionally necessary components to birth control is abortion. (The alternatives are worse in many situations.)
World wide birth control down to replacement, and in many cases below, is one of the two hopes humans have for avoiding a population crash that might well go into the billions of deaths. (Easter Island war model.)
The other hope is technology advancing fast enough to support current and projected populations in style. This too has serious drawbacks. (Singularity)
I don't see how we can avoid one or the other in the next 20 years.
Keith Henson
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