Peace Without Poison

Even from the limited data that does exist, it is clear that Portugal’s fertility rate has never been aconsequence of contraceptive use, as the country’s contraceptive prevalence rate shows. Forwhen Portugal reached replacement level fertility in 1979, the contraceptive prevalence rate wasstill below 60%.Today it is apparently at 87% (of which 83 by modern methods) and still cannot possibly accountfor Portugal’s extremely low fertility rate of 1.2 children per woman. Contraceptives, it will beremembered, even if used without fail, cannot suppress family size below the people’s preferredfamily size.The historical record shows that abortion is not a factor in Portugal’s low fertility. Until the turnof the 21 st century the abortion rate was far below 1%. Since then it has risen to 17%.Portugal has been rewarded for its genocide with a growing GDP, which began increasing nosooner the country reached replacement level fertility in 1979.662 | P a g e