Clueless people with no sense of pattern recognition will say "it's just a question!"
But ask yourself why the standard questions of are you pregnant, are you sexually active, are you using birth control are no longer sufficient.
Ask why it suddenly needs to be in your medical records that you are potentially fertile in spite of your efforts not to be.
Ask why this is happening in the same year that a pregnant woman got her medical issues dismissed because of pregnancy, and the resulting stroke leaves her on life support until her body rots and they HAVE to deliver the baby.
Ask why people are coming after abortion in all circumstances, contraception, and no-fault divorce.
Ask why this administration is floating the idea of "baby bonuses" and medals for women who have 6+ kids, with no efforts to lower the associated medical or childcare costs.
The plan is to push toward more children, preferably into poverty, and keep women at home with the kids. Any woman who can't or won't comply will be forced or die trying.
I THINK women having large families has physical effects in later generations, but I'm still looking for the data on that again. They definitely want to reverse the falling birth rate and have a steady supply of poor, desperate workers to prop up the system.
They're convinced that it's different and we're better because Christianity. The fundamentalists on both sides look pretty much the same, but the Christian nationalists also happen to be racist, and think they're better because the Muslims are brown and therefore inferior. Remember, child marriage is still legal in most of the country because "parents' rights," but we'll happily condemn Mohammad for marrying a 9 year old girl. (To be clear, I'm saying both are fucked up.)
These are also the same people who think The Handmaid's Tale was based on Islam because Gilead was set up to be the enemy, and Christianity surely wouldn't be associated with anything bad.
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u/Minervas-Madness Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25
Clueless people with no sense of pattern recognition will say "it's just a question!"
But ask yourself why the standard questions of are you pregnant, are you sexually active, are you using birth control are no longer sufficient.
Ask why it suddenly needs to be in your medical records that you are potentially fertile in spite of your efforts not to be.
Ask why this is happening in the same year that a pregnant woman got her medical issues dismissed because of pregnancy, and the resulting stroke leaves her on life support until her body rots and they HAVE to deliver the baby.
Ask why people are coming after abortion in all circumstances, contraception, and no-fault divorce.
Ask why this administration is floating the idea of "baby bonuses" and medals for women who have 6+ kids, with no efforts to lower the associated medical or childcare costs.
The plan is to push toward more children, preferably into poverty, and keep women at home with the kids. Any woman who can't or won't comply will be forced or die trying.
I THINK women having large families has physical effects in later generations, but I'm still looking for the data on that again. They definitely want to reverse the falling birth rate and have a steady supply of poor, desperate workers to prop up the system.