{"id":117855,"date":"2022-09-14T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/iran-is-urging-people-to-have-babies-and-making-life-hard-for-those-who-don-t-want-to"},"modified":"2022-09-14T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:00:43","slug":"iran-is-urging-people-to-have-babies-and-making-life-hard-for-those-who-don-t-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/iran-is-urging-people-to-have-babies-and-making-life-hard-for-those-who-don-t-want-to","title":{"rendered":"Iran is urging people to have babies &#8212; and making life hard for those who don&#8217;t want to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking to make a baby in Iran, you won&#8217;t find a more willing, supportive and enthusiastic partner than the government. To encourage you to reproduce, how about a zero-interest loan? Or, if you&#8217;re a college professor, a promotion at the office? Maybe you want to buy a domestically made car &#8212; just have a child and see your name move up the waiting list. After years of preaching the virtues of birth control, the Islamic Republic is so eager for its people to procreate that it&#8217;s offering a range of financial and other incentives that have stirred up both amusement and outrage. Officials are desperate to reverse a declining birth rate that has fallen below the level necessary merely to hold the current population steady at 84 million. But the drive to engineer a baby boom also has its dark side, with the state intruding further into people&#8217;s private lives and interfering in their most intimate decisions. Just<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarmed by the nation&#8217;s low birth rate, the Iranian government is encouraging childbearing and imposing restrictions on abortion and contraception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[59,188,102],"class_list":["post-117855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-health","tag-womens-health","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}