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Peace Without Poison

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At no point in time has Nepal’s contraceptive prevalence rate been responsible for the impressivedrop in fertility since even today only half the people use contraceptives and even if their usewere fail-free it could not possible account for the country low fertility rate.Abortion was illegal until 2002 and remains very rare to this day, which is why abortion is a nonfactorin Nepal’s fertility decline.Nepal has been rewarded for its war on fertility with a growing per capita GDP, which began torise in the mid-1980s when fertility had already been declining for a decadeNepal is in stage three of the demographic transition.576 | P a g e

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