Are Women 'Under-Babied'? Or Are We Under-Supported, Under-Respected and Over-Exhausted?
The pronatalism of the right is accelerating
Hold on to your wombs, there’s a fresh hell of pronatalist warfare just unleashed on society.
A few days ago, a man worth between $100 and $300 million, who owns 10 properties, has four children, and goes by the name of Dr Mehmet Oz, followed in the footsteps of other baby obsessed republicans such as JD Vance and Elon Musk, when he spoke at a White House event. His agenda was clear: get Americans producing more babies.
During his talk, Dr Oz, a celebrity physician and government serving official, warned that 30% of Americans are “under-babied”. He went on to define this as meaning “you either don’t have any children, or you have less [sic] children than you would normally want to have.”
Oh, for the love of sanity. Here we go again. A super-rich, white man lecturing us on having babies. In the same speech, he peddles a fertility drug and, with glee in his eyes, speaks of having more “Trump babies”. What the actual fuck? Trump babies? What new level of Trump bum…
