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Japan's Birth-Rate War. Abortion vs. Birth Control

Gilman, Mildred | June 9, 1956 issue

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Two wars in which lebensraum has been used as a battle cry have convinced Japan of the need to limit its population to a point commensurate with its resources. The Japanese people know that to attain that objective, the means, must be drastic and immediate. They already number nearly 90,000,000 in an area smaller than California. Hence a strange race is now going on in Japan — birth control versus abortion. At the moment abortion, which has been legalized for economic as well as physical reasons, is the more widespread practice.

See Also:

CHILDBIRTH -- Statistics; BIRTH control; ABORTION; POPULATION; JAPAN -- Economic conditions; JAPAN

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