Kuruvilla Pandikattu offers a fascinating look at moral panic re: declining birthrates from the perspective of a Catholic priest living in India. As he notes,

"Public voices keep talking about 'population,' as if human beings were a graph that must be nudged upward. But if you sit with young professionals — especially women — the story is not ideological. It is logistical."

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As Jill Filipovic notes, Republicans are concerned about "middle-aged highly-educated liberal women, who over the past decade have turned out in enormous numbers for the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter rallies, anti-ICE demonstrations, and most recently national No Kings protests."

Pushing girls into early childbearing heads that "problem" of uppity women off early on.

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"We now must contend with a bunch of absolute freaks who are somehow upset about the teen birth rate going down."

~ Robyn Pennacchia

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"Many on the right — the same crowd that has long extolled the virtues of abstinence-only sex education (the Alabama house just last week joined the state senate to pass a bill requiring it in lieu of comprehensive information) — jumped directly into the fray to publicly lament that teens are having fewer babies."

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"How on-brand for the federal government to announce that U.S. birth rates are falling — just as The Testaments, the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaids Tale, dropped on Hulu last week."

~ Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

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