Tehran, YJC. Majlis Speaker says the country is going to suffer spiritually as well as socially for its abortion rate.
Speaking at a seminar in Tehran University of Medical
Sciences on the occasion of the World
Population Day, Ali Larijani said "Neither marriage and divorce rate nor
that of fertility are in good shape. This shows that the desirable conditions
about the country’s young population are altering.”
The Speaker of the Majlis added "As statistics show, the
country’s fertility rate is 1.8 a year. But according to Majlis research, the
fertility rate in 2012-2013 was 1.61, that is 1.49 for urban areas, 1.93 for
rural areas, and 1.18 for the city of Tehran.”
"These problems necessitated general policies of population
being composed in the Expediency Discernment Council which were issued by the Supreme
Leader. The policies include 14 articles which hint to birth, migration, and death,”
he pointed out.
Larijani then provided statistics indicating that lack of
job security is one reason for families to prefer having no more than one
child.
"One of the reasons for having one child is said to be lack
of job security, saying that jobless people are 7 times more prone to choosing
no more than one child,” the Majlis speaker added.
He pointed out that women with job or women as students are
less inclined to think of more children.
"Families who live more in accordance to religious teachings
are less inclined to having only one child; which shows that cultural factors
also affect fertility,” he maintained.”