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Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by DSingularity on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:39PM (#33266186)
Not only that. We are all ready to go to war to protect the right to abort a pregnancy. But where is the passion wrt rights for mothers to not have to feel like they are abandoning their children after shortly after birthing them because they ran out of (or never had) parental leave?

Our priorities as a society have been inverted in this area.

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Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by Volundr on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:47PM (#33266289)
I think you'll find that the cross section of people who support the right to abortion and people who support requiring companies to offer generous parental leave to be quite large.
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Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women by lotsofpulp on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:13PM (#33266613)
> Our priorities as a society have been inverted in this area.

No, they have not. The states that protected abortion rights are also the states that offer paid parental leave and paid disability leave to new moms. And the states that restricted abortion rights are the states that offer zero parental leave.

A significant portion of US society supports helping new parents, and especially mothers. It does not have enough votes in the Senate though.

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