This is a bigger deal than it might seem. When birth control pills arrived in the 1960s, they were seen as a tool of liberation that would free women from forced pregnancy. Then the pope came out against them in 1968:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-po...

That caused a population explosion everywhere, but especially Central and South America, which were predominantly Catholic.

IMHO it all comes down to patriarchy. When I hear certain wealthy people and billionaires worrying about population collapse due to low birth rates, it reeks of that same male-dominated worldview. The same good ol' boy power structure which went to such great lengths in 2016 to block the first woman president and capture the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

It's amazing to me that in 2023, women still had to get permission from their doctor to not get pregnant. And that the thousand whatabouts in the details of that are still discussed online and in otherwise polite conversation, as if that's anyone else's business.