I am ignorant in the realms of politics and history, however I'm quite good at speculation. I'd say that if you were to have a plausible world based on ours (as close as possible in technology etc) then what you'd end up with would be 1. a massive economic gap, in other words the middle class would have to dissappear. 2. there are many ways to control birth rate, historically the united states government has forcibly infertilized (de-fertilized, made unfertile?) the females of populations they did not wish to see grow (native americans, the insane and mentally handicapped, etc). 3. As with anything that the government controls you'd get crime-rings or somesuch rising out of the opportunity (ie- we got the mob from prohibition); so perhaps there would be a baby black ring, or a series of underground pediatricians and obgyn's to serve the needs of women giving birth illegally.
Gee, that was fun. I'll be interested to see what you decide to do with this strange new world. ^^
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Date: 22 Nov 2004 02:43 pm (UTC)Gee, that was fun. I'll be interested to see what you decide to do with this strange new world. ^^