Having grown up in a world where overcrowding was presented as an existential threat, I find it difficult to wrap my brain around the idea that humanity is now doomed to extinction because people – well, The good kind of people – fail to procreate.
But it is precisely the message emanating from a white house to Thrall to the “Pro-Family” project of the Heritage Foundation, and of the original billionaire Elon Musk, which spreads its seed in a compulsive quest to reverse the birth rate in the world.
“I think that for most countries, they should consider the birth rate as the biggest problem that they must solve”, ” Musk said last year During an investment conference in Saudi Arabia. “If you do not make new humans, there is no humanity and all the policies of the world do not matter.”
Personally, Musk spares no effort.
Like the Wall Street Journal ReportedHe has at least 14 children with four women whom he deems very intelligent, and perhaps many others. He calls for this brood his “legion” after the largest military unit in the Roman Empire.
“To reach the level of the legion before the apocalypse,” he sent a text to Ashley St. Clair, who engaged in a child alimony battle on their son, “we will need to use substitutes.” (Paging Margaret Atwood.)
It doesn't matter that Musk is the richest man in the world and can easily afford his harem. Having so many children with so many women is not only to cringe, it is hostile to be a good father. What types of conservative family values are exposed here?
Elon Musk carries his son X æ A-XII after a meeting at the Capitol in Washington last year.
(J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
Frankly, Musk seems to be a terrible father. He beats his 4 -year -old son like a brilliant object. He called the boy his “kindness accessory. “He told the world that he considered his transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson,”dead, killed by the awakened spirit virus,“And that he was deceived to sign his gender transition. Is it amazing that A judicial file Wilson described him as angry and absent and said that she no longer wanted to be linked to him?
Musk is not alone in his passion for procreation. “”PronatalismIn fact, it's a moment of Maga. For all bad reasons.
The New York Times reported last week That the White House is to entertain ideas on how to bring American women to have more babies. They include the offer of a bonus of $ 5,000 after the birth of a baby, awarding a medal of honor to women who carry six or more children and teach women their menstrual cycles so that they know when they ovulasent.
After fighting sex education, the conservatives now want to teach it to facilitate pregnancy? (See what I mean for all bad reasons?)
Nobody really knows why The birth rate has decreased, But it is a global phenomenon. Some theorize that as the education of women and employment are increasing, fertility rates fall. Makes sense to me. Fertility control is one of the best ways in which women can improve their lives and the lives of their children.
From a health point of view, childbirth is far away, much more risky than abortion.
The idea, Articulated in 2021 By judge of the Supreme Court, Amy CONEY BARRETT, while she voted to intertise ROE against Wade, that women suffering from unwanted pregnancies can simply take out babies, to leave them at the door of the fire station, then spend their lives as if nothing happened, is crazy.
Women die To childbirth, especially in the United States, where our maternal mortality rate is the highest in all rich countries. In 2023, according to the centers for disease control and prevention, the United States maternal mortality rate was 18.6 deaths per 100,000 living births. In 2022, Black women are dead At a rate of 49.5 deaths per 100,000 living births. Compare this terrible figure to, let's say, in Norway, which has no death for 100,000 living births. Or Switzerland, with one. Or Sweden, with three.
Despite our wealth and our resources, we cannot seem to grant equal access to quality health care, and we have not been able to overcome systemic problems such as racism and socioeconomic inequalities. Who is a shame, because Over 80% American maternal deaths are considered to be avoidable.
It should no longer be said that people who value heterosexual marriage and large families are the same people who offer little support to American families in difficulty, oppose reproductive rights and tried to close Health research on women before being shame restore it.
If pronatalists really wanted to encourage the greatest families, they would devote themselves to facilitate parenting.
They would pressure universal health care and generous and generous and mandated parental leave. They would support high -quality and affordable childcare services, an overwhelming expenditure for most families. They would freely offer early childhood education programs. They would increase the children's tax credit, which can considerably reduce The infant poverty rate. They would require workplaces to be family. They would considerably reduce the cost of the college – or better still make it free.
Offering meaningless maternity medals or unique small payments are nothing more than Pronatals advertising waterfalls. American families deserve better.
Bluesky: @ rabcarian.bsky.
