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Not doing something because one can't afford it isn't a choice; women in developed countries aren't choosing not to have children any more than I'm choosing not to buy a private jet.
I mean, you're right and you're not right:
Non-wealthy but not destitute and dominated women can decide to limit the number of children they have to an economically and otherwise responsible amount. That's an ACTUAL available choice.
The aforementioned destitute and dominated women (whether due to patriarchal dictates, authoritarian legislation, or other impediments to their freedom of choice) might not have that choice, but that doesn't mean that those WITH the choice aren't often choosing to forgo additional/any children for partly or wholly economic reasons.
It's technically an available choice, but my argument is that the consequences to not making the optimal choice are so harsh that it might as well not be a choice at all. For a somewhat absurd example, one could technically choose not to work and just be homeless, but obviously that doesn't mean we're free to choose whether or not to work. Freedom is a spectrum and birth rates for the working class (especially working class women) tend to be closer to "not free" than "free" on that spectrum.
PS: To be clear my intention isn't to invalidate anyone's choice to have or not to have children; my problem is with presenting the current situation as the unavoidable result of women's liberation when in reality there's a clear set of avoidable incentives leading to declining birthrates.
But choosing to not have children because they can't afford it is a relatively new freedom women have.
Be as pissy as you want, contraception has changed our fertility and birth rates. Poor women didn't have a choice before even if they couldn't afford to have more kids.