Commentary 
In traditional, subsistence production societies, children were valuable assets. People need and want many children. In contemporary industrial and post-industrial society, children are a practical liability. People in modern societies do not want a large number of children, and many do not want any.
In 1958, Canadian women had on average 3.88 children. After a long, gradual decline in fertility, Canadian women in 2021 had on average 1.5 children, far below the population replacement level. Fertility levels today are even lower in most Western countries and developed Asian countries (except Israel at 2.95).
In North America, Europe, East Asia, and elsewhere around the world, there’s big business in anti-fertility measures, including birth control pills and devices, surgical and chemical abortion, and sterilization procedures for both men and women. Abortions in Canada numbered 74,000 in 2020, 16.7 percent of all pregnancies, both figures well down from a decade previous. According to the Guttmacher Institute, in the United States, there were 930,000 abortions in 2020, 20.6 percent of all pregnancies. Availability of anti-fertility measures is of the highest priority for some Canadian and American political parties. These parties define anti-fertility measures as “health care,” notwithstanding the destruction of pre-born babies….