I think I&#x27;m drawing the distinction between &quot;active population control&quot; and &quot;passive population control&quot;. I define &quot;active population control&quot; as anything where the goal is to control population and active steps are taken in that direction, typically with the effect of reducing freedom of individuals (e.g. a simple control would be &quot;no more than 2 children per couple&quot;, which means an individual cannot decide to have 3 children). Whereas &quot;passive population control&quot; is basically where population growth ends up controlled as a side-effect of other changes, generally without any limits on the freedoms of individuals (for example, eliminating unwanted pregnancies would be a form of passive population control; the goal isn&#x27;t to control the population but rather to eliminate an undesired situation, and no individual&#x27;s freedom is curtailed, but the overall effect would be fewer children across the entire population).