Despite its restrictive law on abortion, Brazil is seeing a declining birth rate that could propel the country to first-world status: from six children per woman in 1960s to 1.9—a rate lower than 2.05 per woman in the U.S. Pulitzer Center's grantee Fred de Sam Lazaro reports this transformation as a result of urbanization, higher literacy rate for women, declining influence of the Catholic church, the media, and better access to contraceptives.
His story on Brazil's changing demographic also appears on PBS News Hour http://youtu.be/-ebkmo1Ygz8
Abortion in Brazil is forbidden only for poor women, exactly the ones who most it most. Brazilian women in middle and upper classes go to illegal clinics or fly to New York or Portugal to be submitted to the surgery. That's the truth and lots of Brazilians make a blind eye to it.
brunotupi83br 4 months ago
Its amazing how the media likes to put poeples into groups as if they were against another group... in this case women against men.... women are getting educated because men are providing the education, they have set up the system to do so...
Brazil is not doubt headed the same path europe is, a declining population, and a lot of single women, thanks to the womens right movement and government policies....
PunjabiSikhRajput1 4 months ago
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yogiakaltv 5 months ago
i thought it was gonna be in london, guess people said no to europe it's crazy their
heckler171 5 months ago
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Valtyful 6 months ago