So they want people to have all these babies and

[In It to Win It]

Not support affordable childcare
Not support family leave
Divert funds from public schools
Not support free school lunch programs
Not support equal pay
Not support affordable medical care


Since the SCOTUS draft opinion leaked, I’ve read articles of Republican legislators pushing bills banning or putting impractical restrictions on abortion and also banning contraception, and yet, they are offering no support.

[Irish_Dem]

1. This is so the mothers will give the babies up for adoption.

If mothers cannot afford the kids, they have to give them up.

This will feed the lucrative 'infant domestic market."
(Selling babies.)

[albacore]

5. Makes perfect sense.... to a Repub...

Currently, there are over 400,000 kids in foster care, and 114,000 available for adoption.
We NEED more kids to onto those two lists.
Maybe orphanages...?...workhouses..?

[Irish_Dem]

6. Yes we may go back to orphanages. Institutional care for children.

[Phoenix61]

7. They want Gerber Babies. As long as there are states

where people who don’t live in poverty can get abortions it won’t solve the issue of a lack of Gerber Babies. That is why McTurtle said the repukes would go for a national ban on abortion.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. There's a profit motive somewhere. Who is secretly investing in these adoption service firms?

[The Wizard]

18. I believe Coney Barret

is on the payroll of an adoption service.

[Irish_Dem]

29. DeVos family, deep ties to agency where kidnapped immigrant children were sent.

[58Sunliner]

15. They want us dead, over-whelmed without options and powerless.

Babies to adopt is just a bonus for them.

[smirkymonkey]

20. How many of these people wanting to adopt will want babies born to addicted parents, babies who have

birth defects, babies who were undernourished or came from mothers who were physically abused, minority babies? This is a lot more complicated than they think it is, but then again we all know how short-sighted and simplistic they are.

[enneacanthus]

2. It's also to keep the poor, poor and subject to abuse. nt

[Novara]

3. This is not about babies.

It's about making sure we can't compete with men on their level.

[Delmette2.0]

31. You nailed it.

[elleng]

4. They REALLY want 'others' to not DO IT!

[Skittles]

8. it has NEVER been about the babies

*NEVER*

[applegrove]

9. Quebec did free childcare to increase fertility 20 years ago. They've

proved that free childcare more than pays for itself in tax revenues as kids fit in more and thrive, and mothers and fathers get greater work experience.

[Meowmee]

10. Imo people who don't have children for whatever reasons

Should be paid, tax credits etc.- please pay me retroactively too.

[Mr.Bill]

11. They don't even want to do anything to keep them from getting shot and killed at school. n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

14. That's the whole idea. They want dumb, free, submissive labor to exploit

At each life stage they make money off you. They refuse to provide contraception or abortion, then sell your babies for adoption. You work to support you and buy their products. They deregulate so they can pollute freely and run their businesses profitably. You wear out fast, but they don't care. You gave birth to your replacement. No Medicare so you die younger. Cheaper for them!

[bottomofthehill]

23. Once we have enough forced state babies, we can stop the immigrants

The Trumpublican mind set

Right now businesses need the cheap labor that comes across the border. Once we have a steady stream of domestic babies, we can afford to actually close the border.

The last one who wants the border closed are the small businesses that rely on undocumented, untaxed, under the table workers who do not cost them anything.

If you want the border crisis to stop, fine th e shit out of companies and people (Nannie’s and landscapers) who take advantage of their legal status to under pay them and the cost(social security, unemployment, medical, retirement) that go along with the work force.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Maybe it's GOP Lebensraum? /nt

[NullTuples]

16. It's an old conservative Christian tactic

Make everyone except those in power too poor to be able to focus on much beyond getting through each day.

Give the masses plenty of life stressors and things they have to struggle against. Corporations are more than willing to help, and a surprising number of top capitalists also seem to at least talk the talk of doomsday Christians.

Then offer them the afterlife, where nothing is uncomfortable. And in the meantime, offer them services from school to food assistance...through churches.

A name I was taught for it recently is, "Feudal Capitalism" and it fits very nicely.

[BlueIdaho]

17. Drop unwanted babies off at the fire station

Let the state raise them.

[ShazzieB]

19. Yes, that's HandmaidAmy's solution. 🙄

"Hey, what's the big deal about forced pregnancy and childbirth? It's not like you have to RAISE the kid." (No, those weren't her exact words, but that was the subtext.)

I just posted in another thread that I've never wanted to punch someone in the face so badly as I did her when she made those remarks about dropping babies off at the firehouse.

[BlueIdaho]

22. At least I was being sarcastic

That cruel witch was not.

[LeftInTX]

24. Let's all drop our asses off on Amy's front yard...

With notes attached "Hey raise me!"
"I want food!"
"I'm not an abortion! I'm here for you!"
"Can we use your restroom?"
"We need showers!"
"Adoption at any age!"

She will love piles of lovely bodies on her front lawn!
It might look like Woodstock.
I promise I will not take a bath beforehand!

[bottomofthehill]

25. That is an actual comment/question from the bench by Amy of God

From Politico



During oral arguments, Barrett, who is herself an adoptive mother, suggested that the existence of safe-haven laws and adoption in general rendered moot the pro-choice argument that abortion access protects women from "forced motherhood." Rather, she continued, "the choice, more focused, would be between, say, the ability to get an abortion at 23 weeks, or the state requiring the woman to go 15, 16 weeks more and then terminate parental rights at the conclusion."

[Marcuse]

21. It's simple demographics. Counter replacement theory by forcibly increasing the white birth rate.

[BlueIdaho]

26. Assuming this ChristoFascist Lebensborn program

Doesn’t blow up in their face. What happens when these little white warriors decide they want to join the other side and fight for human rights and women's rights? Off to the gas chamber with them?

[Duppers]

27. Plus, they want cheap labor.

[Bucky]

30. They don't want to address America's high maternity mortality rates

Probably to most of these Republican men, forced high birth rates alongside neglect-caused high maternal mortality rates... looks like a market solution to the population question