With less focus on family planning and contraception for women, the birth rate continues to rise greatly. Many policies that have helped control the growing population in the past, are seemingly vanishing.
Iraq has proposed laws to make it more difficult for women to get a divorce, receive birth control, marrying laws with children. These are very similar laws that are happening in Iran.
Laws in Iran are being discussed to make divorce harder for women, jobs harder to find if women do not have children, and contraception more difficult to attain. Women are merely being degraded to "baby making machines."