Here's a whacko theory [View all]

[Marthe48]

Aliens have entered r bodies and have to share some features with humans. Aliens can impregnate humans, but they don't know which humans are expecting alien offspring. So the r's are enacting crazy laws that ignore women's health and humanity, so the alien fetuses can be born. Any human babies born are unimportant, so r's can go ahead and cut away the social programs that protect born humans. The aliens will take care of their own. Of that mentality, it is an outlook that aliens and r's have, so cruelty is enhanced.

Because I can't think of a plausible reason that explains the r destruction of human procreation.