Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and PowerGovernment sponsored breeding programs, medals of motherhood, forced abortions, and surgical sterilization on park benches all of these policies have come out of government efforts to nationalize sex and harness procreation as a tool of the state. Over 170 countries (or 85% of governments) worldwide have active policies designed to manipulate the fertility of their citizenry with the aim of influencing the rate of growth of their populations. While