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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,470 posts)
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 12:43 PM Sep 2025

Conservatives have a message for Trump: We want more babies

Donald Trump this spring dubbed himself the "fertilization president.”

But some conservative family policy advocates say he’s done little so far to publicly back that up and are pushing to get the White House in the remaining months of the year to prioritize family policy — and help Americans make more babies.

A top priority is a pronatalist or family policy summit that spotlights the U.S.’s declining fertility rate. Other asks, which typically run through the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, include loosening regulations on day cares and child car seats, further increasing the child tax credit and requiring insurers to cover birth as well as pre- and post-natal care at no out-of-pocket cost.

While the Trump administration has advanced a handful of policies explicitly billed as “pro-family,” some conservative advocates are dismayed that the president has not done more on one of his campaign’s most animating issues.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-fertilization-president-yet-deliver-110000602.html

Well get busy then dipshits.

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DBoon

(25,148 posts)
3. I predict they will try to make it very hard on single women in the workforce
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 12:49 PM
Sep 2025

and will place barriers in the way of women seeking higher education of learning a trade

hamsterjill

(17,760 posts)
4. There's already been a deluge of crap on social media about women working outside of the home.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 12:56 PM
Sep 2025

Plus, have you looked at all of the birthing video channels on YouTube? There are women there - young women - who are having their TENTH child.

I'm sorry, but that is fucking ridiculous. There is NO ONE who has enough time to properly parent TEN children the way they are supposed to be taken care of BY THE PARENTS! It winds up with the older kids saddled with the responsibilities of rearing the younger ones, and that's not how it's supposed to be.

And no, don't jump my ass saying "I had to look after my brothers and sisters when we were growing up". Teaching children responsibility is ONE thing - pushing the TOTAL and complete responsibility of raising a child onto another child is absolutely another.

kimbutgar

(27,558 posts)
5. i saw a family while I was on vacation this week in Southern California
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 12:57 PM
Sep 2025

They had 6 children under 8 and the kids were blonde. When I passed them I saw the father had taken off his hat and it was a red maga one! i first thought they were Mormons.

Diamond_Dog

(41,057 posts)
6. Then Repukes will have to also fix
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 12:58 PM
Sep 2025

The high cost of medical care, rent, food, and child care.

Also …. women must have total and complete healthcare, free to make their own decisions without government interference.

tanyev

(49,688 posts)
7. They want more babies, but they don't want to vaccinate them against childhood diseases,
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 01:00 PM
Sep 2025

or feed them when to go to school.

😠

Ritabert

(2,613 posts)
9. Women can't afford to stay home with the kids.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 01:17 PM
Sep 2025

It takes 2 paychecks to support a family since Reagan's time.

 

Justice Brandeis

(405 posts)
10. I'm a single childless man. I'm sure that single childless women will be attacked far more than me...
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 01:20 PM
Sep 2025

so I acknowledge that.

That said. I am not thrilled at the prospect of my tax dollars being used to fund a national breeding policy, as well as various other treats, privileges and special rights for Americans who make the lifestyle choice to have kids.

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