The White Lily Blog

In the astonishingly frank interview linked here, the head of Korean Planned Parenthood , Mr. Choi Seon-jeony, details the depth of Korea’s depopulation crisis and the transformation it has wreaked upon Planned Parenthood itself. Go read it, but if you don’t have time, below you will find a short summary. The reader may notice inconsistencies in the summary; they are present in the original.

Here is a summary of Mr. Choi Seon-jeony’s words: In the 1960’s the Korean government, through Planned Parenthood of Korea, began to implement the one child per family policy, as ‘economic development.’ Now Korea has the lowest birth rate and the fastest aging rate in the world. Population growth will reach 0% in 2019 but will continue to fall and turn into negative growth. The working age population will begin to fall in 2019. At the same time, the aging of workers will sharply increase.

Sometimes family planning means to reduce the number of children born, and sometimes to reduce the number could be inappropriate. When there are too few children, to bear and raise more children will contribute to our happiness, and so family planning will be changed accordingly. That is why we changed our name. We are no longer the Family Planning Association. We are now the Planned Population Federation. We will promote child-bearing and child-rearing, make efforts to prevent abortion, and cooperate with religious circles.

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So Planned Parenthood Korea took out the Planning, and added some Praying? Well, we have lived to see the day! About time!

Unfortunately for Korea, Mr. Choi’s economic plan is as naive as one might expect from a person with a background in public relations. Sweden tried all the inducements mentioned, and the jury is out, because the country has rebounded to 2.1, but only due to the birthrate of immigrants, a feature shared with the United States. Discounting Muslim immigration, the Swede birthrate is 1.6, unchanged from before all the natalist policy initiatives, like 115% of pay for fifteen months for each child.

And an economist might know, if Mr. Choi does not, that inducements like flexible hours must be paid for, and that, without a fall in profits, means either more production or higher productivity, but either option during a period of falling labor force is, simply put, impossible. When Japan tried it, roboticizing to a degree since imitated in the US, the last word on the street was that they had even put the cats to work, to no effect.

Mr. Choi is in for a few unpleasant surprises in those ‘religious circles,’ too! He will find some other ideas, not just stopping abortion, that co-incidentally and necessarily go along with a high, healthy birth rate. He will find Korea must cleave to a traditional definition of marriage that specifies reproduction as its purpose, not mutual pleasure. Not benefits. Not even companionship. Babies.

This rules out gay marriage. It rules out easy divorce, because women reproduce the best in stable relationships. Masturbation and porn would go back in the shadows, since it was found, by none other than condom manufacturers, that these are factors in Japan’s national failure to engage in intercourse.

If Planned Parenthood thinks all it has to do is change its name, clearly, they’d best think again. Their data apparently shows that Korean women got it. They learned to value a career over marriage, to defer marriage, to get that education first, to get that career.

They learned not to want marriage. Oh, a ‘relationship’ is okay, but no thanks to marriage and that children thing. Most of all, like their counterparts from Manhattan to Hong Kong, they learned to live to shop.

They had to be carefully taught. There had to be poster contests and popular songs, back in those early days of the one child per family push. Every guidance office in the country had to have a a twenty-four by thirty-six right by the door: What do you call a pregnant teenager? Stupid. Planned Parenthood supplies them around the world, by the thousands, in all languages, of course, with all kinds of girls looking stupid, and embarrassed, and pregnant. The horror!

Mr. Choi does not seem to appreciate the difficulty of the task. He appears not to understand that it’s easy to promote sin, in this case easy sex, and hard to promote virtue, in this case reproductive sex followed by high-quality parenting in the peaceful home of a companionate marriage, and, speaking just for the West where Planned Parenthood is about due to wake up any minute now–it took two thousand years for the Church to build a culture where that kind of love and marriage had even a prayer of a chance in just enough homes to produce the high quality workers and creators and inventors that built the west.

Only a couple of generations under Planned Parenthood’s tutelage to wreck it.

Mr. Choi has no appreciation of the situation he’s in. Oh, he knows he’s got a cohort of twenty to thirty year olds who have to reproduce. If they don’t have a child now, they won’t have a second child. Korea’s survival is in the second and third child. If they wait until they’re thirty to have that first child, Mr. Choi already knows, there’ll be no second. And the clock is ticking. And if he misses it with this cohort, Korea’s population will be cut in half, as if overnight. And the other half a decade older! One generation to go, until it all topples over. Mr. Choi figures he’ll learn what to say hanging out in those confounded ‘religious circles.

The thing is, the first cohort, they’re not even listening to Mr. Choi. They’re on the cellie with the old Planned Parenthood.

Teachers know this stuff, Mr. Choi does not. It is very hard to rehabilitate what you have made taboo. There are sociologists who say it’s impossible. It’s very hard to unteach a girl who swears that she would ‘rather die than have a baby,’ the attitude they whipped up to legalize abortion. (Cf: see comment section here )

No society on earth ever recovered from a birth rate lower than 1.5, as best historical evidence can piece it out, when disease or disaster wiped out fertility in other epochs. It is debatable (see the link above, especially the comment section), whether the best efforts the world from one of the richest countries in the world, have resulted in a higher birth rate in Sweden, since at the same time, they facilitated mass immigration, and refuse to tease out the impact of the much higher birth rates of their immigrants (which will disappear in one generation as they, too, see the poster in the guidance office). Sweden got itself back to bare reproduction of the population, to 2.1, but anecdotal evidence suggests it’s probably not Swedish girls doing the reproducing, and thus it has not been proven that Planned Parenthood’s oopsy can actually be reversed, in any population. In time, that is. The world can go to hell in two generations if we refuse to reproduce.

There’s never been such a catastrophe specifically risked by a few fools’ version of choice, before.

It took all the pride and lust that we could muster.