Peace Without Poison

population peaked early too, in 1993, and has been rapidly decreasing since and has lost 14% todate (from 52 to 45 million).The men responsible for Ukraine’s demographic collapse since independence are: LeonidKravchuk (1991-1994), Leonid Kuchma (1994-2005), Viktor Yushchenko (2005-2010), ViktorYanukovych (2010-2014), and the incumbent Petro Poroshenko (since June 2014).President Kuchma made an attempt to raise the contraceptive prevalence rate but abandoned itafter the turn of the century. Ukraine’s contraceptive prevalence rate has never played asignificant role in the fertility decline, which is why whether it goes up or down it has no effecton the total fertility rate, which is controlled by the government through chemical poison and notby the people with contraceptives.The historical record shows that abortions did play a significant role from 1960 until 2000 when60% of all pregnancies ended with an abortion. Since the turn of the 21 st century, however, theabortion rate has decreased to 22%. As endemic endocrine disruptors have damaged humanfertility, conception has become rather precious and consequently abortion has become far lesscommon.Ukraine is in stage five of the demographic transition.897 | P a g e