~40% of US and international pregnancies, annually, are unintended. When unintended pregnancies are prevented, there are less children. Educated, empowered women have less children or no children. Desired fertility is less than replacement rate, broadly speaking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40982392 (citations)

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-exp...

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-...

> Stunning stat: 64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men. (US specific survey data)