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The group behind Project 2025 has a chilling new plan for America’s women (www.ms.now)

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The Heritage Foundation’s latest document, “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,” was published in January, and its purported goal is to reverse the country’s declining birthrate.

See, if you can’t physically force women to have more babies, which is what abortion restrictions aim to do, you design government policies that pressure women into having more babies.

You cut off opportunities outside the home, you make the public sphere hostile to women’s independence and you create a system where the only viable path left for a woman is dependence on a man for survival. In other words, you drag the country back to a time when women had fewer choices.

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[–] manxu@piefed.social 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I commented.on a different post that what we have lost in the 21st century is the belief or hope that things are improving. That had been the cornerstone of all politics since 1945; things are imperfect but they are getting better.

Now it's the opposite. Two décades of things rushing from catastrophe to calamity, and the really big ones only gave us hints, yet.

It's not just that it's hard to want to force a human to be born into this kind of world. It's also that a child is a financial anchor and burden that may end up preventing your own évasive maneuver.

Give families the resources they need to raise a child. Give them a cheap place to live, jobs that don't kill you, healthcare that doesn't bankrupt you, and éducation that makes people better.

We can do it. We just choose to bomb Iran instead.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

People are less likely to build community with children as well. "Rugged individualism" and all that.

Nothing screams "american" like 4 kids, a ford expedition, and never talking to a neighbor or anyone with a slightly darker skin tone than you. Not to mention never voting for things that dont affect you directly, and having zero critical thought about how your actions affect others.