Republicans wanted fewer abortions and more births. They are getting the opposite | Judith Levine
www.theguardian.com
The rate of voluntary sterilization among young women jumped abruptly after Dobbs, and there’s no reason to believe it will drop off.

The rate of voluntary sterilization among young women jumped abruptly after Dobbs, and there’s no reason to believe it will drop off

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    1061·
    8 days ago

    Very good article. I wish it would have connected the dots just a bit more though. You know what stops me from having children?

    • That daycare is unaffordable so one of us would have to work fulltime just to pay for childcare.
    • The public school system is constantly being underfunded or worse, defunded, and if I had a child they would deserve an education.
    • That PBS is being defunded so the few actually educational programs (the ones I even grew up with) are at risk
    • College is completely unaffordable without massive parental help
    • The job market is at best, iffy over the next few decades
    • Housing is so unaffordable that it would take too much away from my child to pay for mine, let alone if they want to have a home
    • The giant huge fucking elephant in the room of the climate disaster - sitting here in a heatwave that is somehow again “Once in a century” for the umpteenth time while we do absolutely nothing to curb it. I’m not bringing a child into a dying world for their profit.
    • I want us to be able to get an abortion if it comes to that, I don’t want to see my spouse die just because she’s pregnant and some politician says that the unborn child’s life is worth more than hers.

    Seriously, all of these are fixable problems and they’ve been doing the exact opposite! If they implemented even half of these it would completely change my mind about having kids, but no I guess having a 200 dollar annual tax credit bump is enough in their minds after defunding everything else I would depend on.

    • invalidname@lemmy.world
      25·
      8 days ago

      It’s a bigger loss for them if those problems were fixed because smart/intelligent people are harder to control. Hence the gutting of any sort of education. They want old style slavery in a modern world.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        14·
        8 days ago

        Okay that’s true I admit, I’m well educated, and I want others to be too. Just like Idiocracy told us though people who don’t see how bad it is won’t be bothered and will have children anyway. 200 bucks ho boy let’s get busy!

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          6 days ago

          I’m kinda counting on the following outcome:

          Stupid people who adhere to Trump-like mindset including “we need higher birthrate” are going to have more children, but then are gonna be too poor to move, so they’re stuck in the countryside in bumfuck nowhere and then poverty proliferates there, since they can’t actually take care of their children. This leads to a localized concentration of poverty.

          It’s a localized, self-inflicted, self-deserved punishment. I think it’s fair.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        72·
        8 days ago

        We are way past that point… the whites now get treated like the rest of the undesirables. Serves them right for picking the wrong side during the civil rights period.

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            7·
            8 days ago

            The rich already get everything that’s best. They don’t need government to create systems for them, sorry social systems. Goverments job is to create “good” regulatory regimes and tax code that taxes the peasants heavy while not taxing them much.