1935 - Population

Population

Ireland makes it a felony to sell, import, or advertise any form of birth control device or method.

Use of sulfonamides will make it far less hazardous for physicians to perform dilation and curetage, the most commonly employed means of terminating pregnancies. Economic pressures created by the Depression have created a record demand for abortions, which are generally performed by unqualified practitioners under non-sterile conditions.

Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) leader Heinrich Himmler starts a Lebensborn (life source) state breeding program to produce an "Aryan super race." He encourages young women of "pure blood" to volunteer their services as mates of SS officers to contribute blond, blue-eyed babies who will grow into thin-lipped narrow-nosed "Nordic beings" to carry on the "thousand-year Reich."

Japan's population reaches 69.2 million, up from 34.8 million in 1872. Emigration to Manchuria (Manchukuo) eases population pressures somewhat, and the birth rate falls to 14.4 per thousand, down from its peak of 15.3 in 1930, but overpopulation causes mounting anxiety.

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