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[–] 123 points 1 year ago (5 children)

support policies that promote childbearing.

...like making abortion legal in all 50 states again? Like comprehensive sex education in schools? Like treating women as people and not property?

The most effective way for the Southern Baptists to promote childbearing would be for them to stay the fuck out of politics!

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago

    Abortion policies are a DIRECT REASON why I haven't had any more children. If I can't have guaranteed access to necessary, life-saving medical treatment (e.g. emergency abortions) then I won't put my wife's life at risk for one more child.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Note them prioritizing childbearing and not childrearing. Though they also aren't prioritizing childbearing regardless of what they say.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Note them prioritizing childbearing and not childrearing.

    A lot of these conservative groups have their heads fully packed with eugenics and social darwinian philosophy. The goal is to just keep popping kids out and come-what-may. Eventually, a large enough population will produce some ubermensch. And then you breed the ubermench to get your prodigies and your messiahs.

    It's Genetics meets Calvinism. If you succeed, its because you've got the Purest Blood. If you fail, it is because you have trash DNA and should be cleansed to make way for the superior people who will follow.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Part of conservatism is the idea that "the more complex a solution is, the wronger it is."

    Another part is "We should be able to control women's use of their hoo-hoos for pleasure by restricting them to being baby chambers."

    Here we have a venn diagram where the circles are the same.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I was kinda annoyed at the article for not giving any details on the kinds of policies they wanted there, even something as simple as better tax credits for having kids would go a long way towards making children affordable. And yet I am sure that's not what these people are advocating for.

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