Chapter 44: Fertility Planning_2

150 million couples!

Setting aside how many of them wanted twins or triplets, even if each couple had just one child, that would still mean a need for 150 million newborns. But how could that be possible? Exterminating all civilizations of eleven alien species wouldn't yield that many newborns.

Therefore, black market medical services thrived, with a clamor for ectopic pregnancy technology and gynecological and obstetric departments bursting at the seams—all because the number of newborns was insufficient. Everyone wanted to be the lucky one to win the birth lottery, but if luck wasn't enough, naturally, one would need to resort to unconventional methods. The crux of the matter was indeed the shortage of newborns.

But Lu Yuanming couldn't possibly change all this through administrative means, such as allocating newborn quotas based on merit or contribution. Indeed, there were proposals for this, but many dismissed them.

Birth and death.