Re:Why paying women to have more babies won't work
by angmarsbane on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:56PM
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Why are we so confident that women are the reason there are fewer children? In my circle nearly every woman has frozen or is freezing her eggs, surely that shows a desire to have children?
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Re:Why paying women to have more babies won't work
by MattGaiser on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:08PM
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I’ve heard this.
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/11/why-a-...
Basically they want kids, but don’t want the available people to have them with.
Re:Why paying women to have more babies won't work
by tuatoru on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:58AM
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They want the option to have kids, at some yet-to-be-determined later time. It's St. Augustine: "please, God, make me good, but not just yet". I want kids, but not now.
They have also been sold the idea that having children by this method has a high success rate, when in reality it's of the order of one-third.
Re:Why paying women to have more babies won't work
by ashwagary on Friday May 24, 2024 @08:49AM
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If I'm not mistaken, there have been 60+ million aborted preganancies in the US since the mid-70s. Pretty strong data supports the claim you are questioning, it's also probably the reason for recent successful attacks on abortion rights.