Just from memory, and thus suspect, but I recall the old Soviet Union and even Russia today have horrific rates of abortion. There seems to be something in the more socialist
the state, the more abortion. It seems to stunt something in the natural rate of reproduction. The idea of family first is very last were the state and state organs, goals, leaders are all primary.
I think Mormons, Amish, even just frugal familes, can all strike at the financial legs of FedGov. Have conservative kids and don’t make a profit. Be like the lefties, find a way to ‘non profit’ your enterprise.
The abortion rate in the Soviet Union was as high as 11 per woman AVERAGE, according to some credible sources. However, the reason wasn’t that they just preferred abortion as a means of birth control. It was that the Communist government had no interest in providing contraceptives, so it just didn’t. More money for tanks, space capsules, globe-trotting spies and agitators, etc.
If contraceptives had been available, Soviet women would have eagerly used them — medical care was primitive, with no anesthesia at all for childbirth, much less for abortions. And although anti-abortionist claims that abortions in developed countries often cause sterility are total bunk, I find it rather amazing that Soviet abortions performed by low-paid, don’t-give-a-crap, government-employed doctors, who would suffer no repercussions if they killed a couple dozen patients a year, in poorly equipped facilities with poor sanitation, had so low an incidence of causing sterility that most women got pregnant and re-aborted over and over and over and over and over again.
I lived in Moscow for a couple of years at the height of the Cold War. The scarcity of even the most basic consumer goods was mind-boggling. From time to time, you’d see a line of people winding around for several blocks, even in way-below-zero weather. My dad would always ask somebody in line what it was they were lined up for, and common answers were things like razor blades, towels, etc. When word got out that a store in Moscow had actually received a shipment of such times, it spread like wildfire, and half the city rushed to get in line in hopes getting one. Contraceptives never made it anywhere near the government’s list of things to try to get manufactured to satisfy the citizens’ wants. About the only thing that was consistently available was bread (very good, and very cheap). The Soviet government knew what the people’s bottom line was, to prevent another revolution, and a reliable supply of bread was it.