[mekdoonggi]

Infinite economic growth depends on women having babies above replacement. Therefore, the economic value of a woman having three babies is virtually unlimited, and the economic destruction of a woman having less is also unlimited (when projecting far enough into the future).

It really makes you wonder if some actors would feel a need to exercise control over this scarce and limited resource...

[phendrenad2]

That's the basic background in the book The Handmaids Tale, but ironically the book might be used to fearmonger against anyone trying to incentivize births.