Briefly, a pro-natal policy is any act of legislation, or perhaps even a simple custom, societal expectation, or general norm, that incentivises, encourages, and rewards childbirth and accepted reproduction, whilst potentially (but not necessarily) punishing a lack of procreation.
An anti-natal policy by contrast is legislation, custom, expectations, or norm, that disincentivises, discourages, and perhaps even punishes childbirth and procreation, or otherwise rewards or simply praises those that do not.
This issue is a little harder to cover. Anti-natal policies do not have to be anti-natal by design, and are often put forward under the notion of an expansion of civil rights, and the most key of these that have developed in recent decades is abortion. Abortion would classify as an anti-natal policy, as it makes it permissible to terminate a human (or potential human) life. In some cases where the idea of abortion also ceases to be taboo could be classified as social anti-natalism.
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[b]Does your nation, through custom, law, norm, or trend, permit or encourage any act that impedes or prevents procreation through its usage (eg. abortion, contraception, abstinence)?[/b]
[b]Does your nation punish those that procreate by any means, such as increased taxation, or even imprisonment or death?[/b]
[b]Does your nation reward the lack of offspring?[/b]
[b]Due to the complexity of devising specific questions on this subject, are there any other aspects of anti-natalism, either official or unofficial in your society, that you would like to express? Please do so here in as many or as few paragraphs as you would like.[/b]