Three Republican attorneys general have sued to block the sale of abortion drugs, claiming standing in part because these medicines reduce the teenage pregnancy rate which in turn causing “reduction in the actual or potential population of each state.”
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Three Republican attorneys general have sued to block the sale of abortion drugs, claiming standing in part because these medicines reduce the teenage pregnancy rate which in turn causing “reduction in the actual or potential population of each state.”
This kind of coercive natalism, of forcing children to bear children for the benefit of the state, is like something out of a Republican’s fevered nightmare of communist China, but here we are!
Republican AGs Issue Unsettling Demand For More Pregnant Teens
A group of Republican AGs asserted an unsettling right to pregnant teens in a new filing in their ongoing mifepristone lawsuit.
Balls and Strikes (ballsandstrikes.org)
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As contradictory as it might seem at first glance, the state’s obsession with birth rates is cut from the same cloth as the state’s propensity for genocide. The best analogy for our relationship with our state and capitalist elites is the relationship between a farmer and a herd of livestock.
The state cultivates us, moves us about, sometimes culls and prunes us, and harvests us if we grow fat enough.
The state’s obsession with both birth rates and genocide is thus about ensuring the right size and composition of a herd of livestock to meet the state’s needs.
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@HeavenlyPossum im curious if you know what actually happens during severe poplation dips? occasionally ill see rightwing fear mongering about population collapse, usually when its not straight up white supremacy shit its trying to scare people by saying "whos going to take care of our elderly???" and admittedly, having worked in assisted living it does pull at the heart strings
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Ok, let’s break this down a bit.
First, nothing justifies this kind of forced natalism.
Second, population tends to decline when elites have made life intolerable for people, such that they die early, leave, and/or decline to have children. Not the other way around—population declines are symptoms rather than causes of these problems.
Third, we have plenty of people; there is no shortage. “Who is going to take care of our elderly?” is premised on racist exclusion of immigrants and coercive enforcement of borders.
Fourth, we have plenty of resources, they’re just wildly misallocated. “Who will take care of our elderly?” is also premised on a system that ensures the vast amount of production is hoarded by our elites, leaving us with scraps to do everything else, including caring for each other.
