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Republicans wanted fewer abortions and more births. They are getting the opposite (www.theguardian.com)

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

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 106 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.tech 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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!

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

"I don't want to live in a society where everyone is a goddamn moron."

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week 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.

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