There may also be a growing realization that this “population control” practice has also diminished the pool of citizens (and voters) who were to make up the next generation. As one of the unintended consequences, there has been an inrush of immigrants (legal and illegal) to fill this vacuum, to supply the workforce that was never born and grew to maturity.
And there was also the elimination of a large part of the pool of potential voters with certain biases. Those who would agree to abort a preterm infant, also shared a lot of other notions about freedom from the strictures of organized religion, and the perfectability of man. As the old believers died off, there was no cohort coming up to replace them, and their numbers inevitably shrank.
Parents who turn to abortion end up having no one to carry their genes, and their behavior patterns, into the next generation. A sort of social Darwinism.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. Otherwise, TANSTAAFL.
We are heading into some interesting times.