Women in the West have "reproductive choice". When contraception fails, abortion is the fall-back option. You seriously think this has improved the overall situation of women? Sex has become a more and more a commodity. Pornography is rife. Adultery is a way of life. Marriages are no more than serial monogamy for many. Children are deprived of stable childhoods. And the outcome indicators you use to measure the progress of women and the health of society by is: "numbers of 1st world women ... (who have) ... advanced degrees and rewarding professional lives, and an admirable degree of independence and self-determination."? Seriously?