“… Federalist runs op-eds suggesting women should be discouraged from education, because too much education lowers their birth rates. Encouraging their indoctrination into fertility-obsessed religions is preferable.
We do not need to cover our eyes and pretend not to see what this logic leads to. It is not an accident that Republicans have over and over again blocked laws against child marriage. It is not an accident that Republicans made it their mission for decades to ban abortion.”
3/x
“The most visible expression of this demographic panic is, of course, Trump II's program of mass deportation.
But these racial anxieties are inextricable from sexual politics. You can see pedocon theory shimmering in the background of pro-natalist conferences, where pundits bemoan America's falling birthrate... and quietly pass around statistics suggesting most of the recent fall is driven by a decline of teen pregnancies. The Federalist runs op-eds suggesting women should be discouraged…”
2/x
“… Federalist runs op-eds suggesting women should be discouraged from education, because too much education lowers their birth rates. Encouraging their indoctrination into fertility-obsessed religions is preferable.
We do not need to cover our eyes and pretend not to see what this logic leads to. It is not an accident that Republicans have over and over again blocked laws against child marriage. It is not an accident that Republicans made it their mission for decades to ban abortion.”
3/x
“We do not need to cover our eyes and pretend not to see what this logic leads to. It is not an accident that Republicans have over and over again blocked laws against child marriage. It is not an accident that Republicans made it their mission for decades to ban abortion.
A core plank of Republican politics is that women exist to bear children for men.”
4/4
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/
#GOPWarOnWomen #Epstein #Trump #Evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Abortion #Women
