Reproductive Agency, Care, and Life Scripts
A provisional agency and care module testing bounded reproductive-constraint pathways while protecting bodily autonomy and plural life projects.
Public status
provisional agency and care module
What it examines or proposes to test
agency and care module: Protect reproductive agency, bodily autonomy, plural life projects, and anti-coercion; empirical hypotheses remain distinct from the ethical guardrail.
Limits and exclusions
It is not a total theory of society. It must be tested against domain evidence, rival explanations, and case-specific mechanisms.
Key mechanisms
M012;M023;M024;M025;M026;M027;M028;M032;M033;M034;M035;M036;M042;M043;M045
Strongest objection
Pronatalism risk: Fertility theory can pressure reproduction.
What would weaken it
Agency and anti-coercion are mandatory; revise any demographic-instrument language.
Misuse warning
Fertility analysis protects reproductive agency, bodily autonomy, plural life projects, and anti-coercion; people are not demographic instruments.
Linked cases
- South Korea fertility
Last reviewed
2026-07-10