Women Are Getting Sterilized After Donald Trump's Victory: 'Only Option'

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6. Demographically speaking, this news is terrible for the future of the US.

It is Democratic women who are choosing not to have children, while many Republican women are choosing to have more children. Imagine a decade during which fewer children are being raised with democratic values and more children are being raised with racism, bigotry, and misogyny. We are already divided as a nation, with about a 50-50 split. If many liberals choose not to have children, those who want a totalitarian Christian nation will have a much larger majority in not so many years.

From The Guardian:

“Like developed countries around the world, the United States is in the midst of a fertility slump. In 2023, the US fertility rate fell by 3% and reached a historic low.

But this decline is not evenly distributed across the political spectrum. After Trump won the presidency in 2016, births in Republican-leaning counties rose sharply compared to those that leaned Democratic. Today, Democrats are likelier than Republicans to be childfree – a trend that, the Washington Post has hypothesized, is likely also related to the rightward drift of big-family white Protestants.

That the outcome of the 2024 election has spurred such fear and hesitation around having children is apt – not only are US political parties on diverging paths when it comes to babies, but the election itself was in many ways a referendum on families and fertility. While Kamala Harris made support for abortion rights a key plank in her platform, Donald Trump promised “baby booms” and pledged to give people “baby bonuses”. Trump’s vice-president-elect, JD Vance, has built his political brand on pronatalism, a movement that urges people to have babies to benefit the greater good. Vance has a track record of deriding “childless cat ladies” and raising the alarm about the US fertility rate.

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M, a Texan mother of three who asked to go by her first initial because she feels stigmatized for voting for Trump, hopes that Trump’s victory will improve the economy to the point that she and her husband can afford to have a fourth child.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/family-planning-trump