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.
Lol ikr. There are absolutely policies like this that would incentivize people to have more kids but for some reason it’s out of the question. Like how study after study shows abstinence only sex ed is terrible at stopping teen pregnancy yet southern states keep doing it anyway cuz it’s about control not stopping teen pregnancy.