"The 'pink pill pipeline' is luring in young women with frothy celebrity content before sucking them into the sewer of 'you don’t want to vote sweetie' and 'birth control is unnatural, you should have babies and stay home.'”

~ Rebecca Schoenkopf

#women #BirthRates #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #ReproductiveFreedom #GreatReplacement
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/worlds-gone-wrong-tabs-fri-april

World's Gone Wrong. Tabs, Fri., April 17, 2026

Morning news roundup! Things to read!

Wonkette

"It is tempting for religious leaders to respond to low birth rates with moral exhortation: be generous, be hopeful, welcome life. Those are not wrong words. But when those words land on bodies already stretched thin, they can sound like spiritual gaslighting: 'Trust God,' spoken by institutions that do not carry the cost."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"The point is that certain labor markets are designed to eat evenings, weekends, and predictability — then pay you extra for surrendering your life. …

The ethical diagnosis is blunt: we have built an economy that depends on women’s labor, while continuing to behave as if care is an unlimited free resource that women will supply off the books."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-cited work helps name the mechanism: 'greedy jobs' reward long, inflexible hours with disproportionate pay, and they penalize those who need flexibility — most often mothers, because care is still distributed unequally inside homes (Nobel Prize, 2023).

The point is not that ambitious people are morally defective."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"millions are not able to have the number of children they want because economic precarity, housing, job insecurity, and sexist norms box them in (UNFPA, 2025a).

It is a helpful reframing because it refuses two easy lies: the lie that people are selfish and “don’t want children,” and the lie that a moral lecture will fix the matter."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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"It is the slow arithmetic of hours, rent, commute, childcare, elder care, health anxiety, and the feeling that life has become a treadmill that punishes any additional weight.

The United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA’s) 2025 flagship report calls this, with unusual clarity, not a 'collapse' crisis but a crisis of reproductive agency:"

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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Kuruvilla Pandikattu offers a fascinating look at moral panic re: declining birthrates from the perspective of a Catholic priest living in India. As he notes,

"Public voices keep talking about 'population,' as if human beings were a graph that must be nudged upward. But if you sit with young professionals — especially women — the story is not ideological. It is logistical."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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https://www.ucanews.com/news/greedy-work-and-the-churchs-stand-on-parenthood/112819

Greedy work and the Church’s stand on parenthood

An examination of how the demands of greedy work cultures impact modern parenthood and the Catholic Church’s evolving stance on supporting families in the face of career-driven pressures.

UCA News

As Jill Filipovic notes, Republicans are concerned about "middle-aged highly-educated liberal women, who over the past decade have turned out in enormous numbers for the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter rallies, anti-ICE demonstrations, and most recently national No Kings protests."

Pushing girls into early childbearing heads that "problem" of uppity women off early on.

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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https://www.throughline.news/p/the-purpose-problem

The Purpose Problem

Young women are anxious and depressed. Young men are turning toward religion and right-wing politics. We've failed at creating spaces for adults to make meaning.

Throughline by Jill Filipovic

"We now must contend with a bunch of absolute freaks who are somehow upset about the teen birth rate going down."

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/republicansabsolute-freaks-want-to

Republicans/Absolute Freaks Want To Make Teen Pregnancy Great Again

But we repeat ourselves.

Wonkette

"Many on the right — the same crowd that has long extolled the virtues of abstinence-only sex education (the Alabama house just last week joined the state senate to pass a bill requiring it in lieu of comprehensive information) — jumped directly into the fray to publicly lament that teens are having fewer babies."

#BirthRates #TeenMothers #TeenPregnancy #GreatReplacement #pronatalism #women #patriarchy
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