Milei Takes Advantage of the Abrupt Fall of Births in Argentina to Radicalize Her Anti-Abortion Speech

Javier Milei is the first single and childless president of Argentina. Neither does his sister and secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei. Neither his star advisor, Nicolás Caputo, nor the vice president, Victoria Villarruel. Like them, there are fewer and fewer Argentines with children: the birth rate in this South American country has collapsed 40% in the last decade. The fall responds to a combination of socio-economic, cultural and access…

While Argentina’s fertility and birth rate falls to historical levels, Milei pointed against the abortion law, enacted in 2021. However, experts argue that this decline dates back to 2014. For demographers there is no evidence that links these trends to abortion. They do relate them to other social processes, framed in a global phenomenon. Read more