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While it's great that more blue states are stepping up on paid leave, the packages have tended to fall far short of serving all low-income parents. In Congress leaders should push a parental only bill, one that actually stands a shot of passing + that better serves families
@rcobooth Second-order consequences. Fundamentally, the fertility crisis boils down to one and only one thing: women choosing careers over children. Parental leave (among other things) contributes to women's sense that they can have both.
Check out the discussion our Emily Brindley had with @NBCDFW on a crisis pregnancy center case, and read our story for more details. 👀 Watch: youtu.be/kRTl804vuKg 👓 Read the story: dallasnews.com/business/healt…
We were sold the lie to go after our careers, make money, and make our mark on the world first, and then go find a partner once we've accomplished A through C. We used to have a backstop against some of this—our biological clock ticking louder around our mid-thirties—but we did an end run around that too, with egg freezing. Not a single man told us to do any of this. In fact, historically, they’ve been pretty petulant about the whole thing, but we pushed right through that sentiment by calling them all “toxic” and threatening them with cancellation if they didn’t comply. While we were busy climbing the corporate ladder, the men in our cohort weren’t just waiting around for us to feel "ready" to settle down. They were dating, and as we aged up, they continued to date twenty-year-olds (women in their fertile prime, because that’s what men are biologically programmed to find attractive). So we freeze our eggs, maybe buying us some additional time. Ten years go by. Surely, the men left in their forties are still single because they're looking for something real, something mature; a woman of substance. Wrong. They're still dating twenty-year-olds. And it’s not really their fault; it’s mostly biology. Men have about the same fertility as they age until well into their sixties. Feminism forces us to reject biology, both on the male and female side. Read more here: bit.ly/47yWtRY
@yo_mama988 @AbortionChat Women need to stop having sex if they think pregnancy is dangerous
My hot take is that young men who cannot afford for their significant other to stay home feel emasculated and it's much easier to insist that women are bitches then it is to actually fix what killed the middle class.
@GalacticPoly Involuntary, uncompensated reproductive labor was part of the experience of many enslaved women in the US, who were valued for their ability to produce more slaves. Slaveholders whined about their efforts to control their own fertility, including abortion repository.law.upenn.edu/documents?sear…
