RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116125502045270798
The Margaret Atwood vision of the USA continues to become more & more prescient.... we are seeing the Handmaidenisation of the USA.
What was once science fiction is now public policy.... and in the UK there are people f the right who no doubt see this sort of move as entirely justified pronatalsm.
"This is why there is such a concerted effort on the pro-natalist right to force or at least coerce women to marry in their 20s and get to reproducing. It’s why the strategy includes pushing women out of higher education, banning or highly limiting contraception and IVF, and legalizing workplace discrimination against women so that employers can favor bread-winning men."
#WhiteSupremacy #patriarchy #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #Trump #MAGA #pronatalism #TechBros
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(continued from /4)
"but they share a unified vision of a world in which radically raising (white) birth rates is a top priority. And they all understand that the only way to do that is to radically constrain women’s rights and opportunities. ...
And as women gain more rights and opportunities, birth rates go down, while age of first marriage and first birth go up."
#WhiteSupremacy #patriarchy #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #Trump #MAGA #pronatalism #TechBros
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"Few forces have emerged from the MAGA new right as forcefully as pro-natalism. Pro-natalists aren’t a unified group — there are the tech bros who are happy to use IVF and surrogacy to create dozens of 'perfect' children, and there are the traditionalists who want to ban IVF and push all women to marry at 22 —" (continued in /5)
~ Jill Filipovic
#WhiteSupremacy #patriarchy #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #Trump #MAGA #pronatalism #TechBros
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https://www.throughline.news/p/what-exactly-are-women-supposed-to
RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/115679158637616118
“The anti-immigration and pronatalist policies [of the Trump regime] add up to fantasies of redirecting the demographic future of this country. Both amount to, in the end, dim-witted bullying by haters inadvertently demonstrating that their claims to superiority have to be based on race and gender, because otherwise they’re incoherent idiots.”
#Politics #USPolitics #Immigration #Racism #Sexism #TrumpImmigrationPolicy #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #WhiteSupremacy #Pronatalism #Demographics
It's a scam. There is no future under #fascism.
Michael and Susan #Dell donate $6.25bn to encourage families to claim ‘Trump Accounts’
#trump #pronatalism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/dell-donation-625bn-trump-accounts
Another in my long-running critique of bad arguments for #pronatalism
https://johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/will-fewer-kids-mean-fewer-scientists
#ChristainNationalism #pronatalism
"Pronatalism: Just White Christian Nationalism in Disguise
Scratch just beneath the surface of the so-called pronatalism movement—a movement all over the pages of Project 2025 that’s based on the belief that people need to have more babies because declining birth rates are a threat to civilization—and you’ll find that it’s basically just white Christian nationalism in disguise. The movement is full of ideological contradictions that make it crystal clear: pronatalists’ desire for people to have more babies is in service to their primary goal of reenforcing a system of religious, racial, and gendered hierarchy that favors conservative white Christians.
One of the biggest tells that pronatalism is just a front for white Christian nationalism? The two movements sure seem to have a lot of beliefs (and believers) in common.
Access to Reproductive Health Care and Women’s Role in Society
(. . .)
Opposition To IVF and Other Assisted Reproductive Technology (We Wish We Were Kidding)
(. . .)
Restrictive Views on Who Should Get to Have Children
(. . .)
The Real Goals of the Pronatalist-White Christian Nationalist Movement
(. . .)
pronatalists’ pearl-clutching panic over declining birth rates is really just an excuse to push for draconian measures that would enshrine certain extreme religious beliefs into our laws and wreck our multicultural pluralistic democracy as thoroughly as Trump just wrecked the East Wing.
More babies is not the primary goal of this movement. More control—over women, LGBTQIA+ people, immigrants, and anyone who doesn’t adhere to their narrow confines—is.
Pronatalism is about forcing one religious world view on the entire country. In that way, it’s nothing more than white Christian nationalism in disguise."
https://nwlc.org/pronatalism-just-white-christian-nationalism-in-disguise/
Scratch just beneath the surface of the so-called pronatalism movement—a movement all over the pages of Project 2025 that’s based on the belief that people need to have more babies because declining birth rates are a threat to civilization—and you’ll find that it’s basically just white Christian nationalism in disguise.
NPR Code Switch take on #ProNatalism, particularly focusing on its links to #eugenics, and yet…and yet, managed to never mention how “you know who” was also a pro-natalist.
#WhiteChristianNationalism
How Elon Musk and JD Vance plan to 'save civilization' with more babies : Code Switch : NPR
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
William Lindsey 
Bernard
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)
Bongolian
John Quiggin
Levka
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