Abortion and Population

[arewethereyet]

Um.......... not quite right. Fertility is the ability to create viable gametes and conceive. I think you mean birth rate.

I think we’re both right here. Yes, abortion reduces the birth rate. It also reduces the fertility rate, which is the number of live births per woman. That’s how the UN, demographers, and others (probably sociologists, too!) who study this define it.

And what about miscarriages, how does that affect fertility?

Fertile with regard to people means a person is able to conceive.  It has nothing to do with carrying to term.