Corrington wrote:Stabilist Adhira Vita Visits Young Mothers at Women’s Clinic at Bengaluru, Launches More Aspects of ‘Population Policy’, Including Maternity Benefit Plan
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With a skyrocketing fertility rate, and an equally towering infant mortality rate, Adhira Vita takes the women’s perspective to form a decisive new plan to try to improve the health of newborn children and pregnant women in order to stabilize population growth after the war.
“We are facing a population crisis that my fellow candidates have so far completely neglected. At the start of the wars in South India, 4 million were murdered in Sri Lanka. There is still a dearth in this country’s population that has only grown deeper with the constant warfare, and lack of proper healthcare. Right now, the South Indian fertility rate is skyrocketing, at just about the rate of the South Indian infant mortality rate. It isn’t that we have to encourage more fertility or more pregnancies; there are already enough. The problem is that we don’t take good enough care for our mothers and for their children. Roughly half of South Indian children die before the age of ten. Miscarriages are not uncommon. I know this as a South Indian woman, because I experienced two miscarriages when I was young, and have lost three of my five children: to cholera, to famine, and to the war. Nothing breaks a mother’s heart, the heart of a nation, more than the burial of a young child. This should not be an experience so many of us can relate to, and yet here we are.”
“If South India is to bounce back in the long run, we will need to stabilize the rate of population growth, and that will require improving healthcare conditions for young women, mothers, and especially for children. This is the overall aim of my Population Policy, which will encourage health among pregnant mothers, immunize children against disease, provide greater healthcare among all citizens and especially veterans, and educate the coming generation so that they are well-equipped to pursue careers in a state of knowledge and health. Our veterans, as I have said, fought, bled and died for our shot at independence; our children will move forward to hold up and perpetuate this rising nation which we together have formed; our mothers gift us with that new generation who carry the vision of the future in their minds. We must take care of these veterans, mothers and children through any means we can.”
“A majority of pregnant South Indian women are underweight, as are the fathers. This was my situation, as a young mother in Sri La. There was never enough for our family. If the mother and the father are underweight, how will they provide for the children? As President, I will use any means necessary to ensure that families, and especially mothers, receive nutrition before and after delivery to improve the health of families across South India. Any means necessary: loans from friendly countries and international organizations, international aid from NGOs, and encouraged use of fertile land for subsistence agriculture. At the minimum, my Maternity Benefit Plan will award mothers with a minimum of 4000 rupees each.”
“This aspect of my overall Population Policy has concessions to both progressives and traditionalists. To the social progressives, these cash incentives will empower women with partial compensation for any sort of wage loss that young mothers may experience while bearing and raising a child. To the traditionalists, though I myself oppose restraining women to a traditional role and want to encourage greater female workforce participation, the situation requires that South India have a sufficient number of young and healthy women who are ready to bear the fruit of a new generation, so that our newfound independent country doesn’t dwindle. Through the strong social example I would set as not only our country’s first President, but our country’s first female President, my administration will seek to empower and protect women, while my administration’s Maternity Benefit Plan will ensure that women in the traditional role of childbearing and raising will serve their role in health and with some prevailing degree of social equity.”
“While we may be the first South Indians to establish our own democratic government and form a Union of freedom, equity and justice, it will be our next generations: our children and our children’s children, who will determine how long this emerging state lasts. We must raise them sufficiently and raise them well if we want a free and independent South India to prevail in later history. It is our responsibility. Restoring the South Indian population to its healthiest state will be my administration’s top priority. Thank you.”
"We have not neglected this, we have merely postponed it for more important things than increasing our 80 million strong population. Things like helping refugees and fighting the IIS. And making our economy recover, rebuilding warzones like Kochi- and oh, did I forget to say this? I'm modernising and rebuilding Kochi as well. There are more important things than overcrowding SI."




