An overwhelming body of evidence supports a negative relationship between women's empowerment and fertility. In this paper, we evaluate whether this relationship holds in a setting with a high degree of son preference and limited access to abortion services by focusing on rural India. We exploit the reforms to the Hindu Succession Act that improved female empowerment by mandating equal inheritance rights for women to assess the reform’s impact on women’s fertility. Using NFHS-3 data and a difference-in-differences estimation, our results show that women who benefitted from the reform had more children than their counterparts. We attribute this increase in fertility to women's ability to use the stopping rule to achieve son preference. Although there are no significant differences between treated and control women's desired son proportion, women impacted by the reform had a higher proportion of sons for a given family size, indicating stronger son preference among treated women. Finally, we find an increase in women's decision-making power, improvements in maternal health, and a decrease in domestic violence. Our paper is the first to find that greater empowerment through property rights leads women to increase fertility to realize their son preference.