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(2,830 posts) Thu Aug 1, 2024, 11:13 AM Aug 2024

Heritage president rails against birth control, IVF, abortion, childlessness, and dog parks [View all]

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https://www.mediamatters.org/kevin-roberts/forthcoming-book-heritage-president-rails-against-birth-control-ivf-abortion

In forthcoming book, Heritage president (Kevin Roberts) rails against birth control, IVF, abortion, childlessness, and dog parks

In the copy reviewed by Media Matters, Roberts, who is the architect of Heritage-led initiative Project 2025, rails against birth control, in vitro fertilization, and abortion. He says that having children should not be considered an “optional individual choice” but “a social expectation or a transcendent gift.” He describes “contraceptive technologies” as “revolutionary inventions that shape American culture away from abundance, marriage, and family.”

He labels reproductive choice methods as a “snake strangling the American family.” From page 63:

We need to understand what could be called contraceptive technologies—revolutionary inventions that shape American culture away from abundance, marriage, and family—in the same vein. They shift norms, incentives, and choices, often invisibly and involuntarily. Conservatives inveigh against no-fault divorce, the Sexual Revolution, and the destruction of a culture of hope without recognizing that these cultural changes are all downstream of technological ones.

Roberts blames contraception for a rise in abortion rates. Also from page 64:

As other kinds of contraceptive technologies spread, abortion rates went up, not down. Why? Because technological change made having a child seem like an optional and not natural result of having sex and destroyed a whole series of institutions and cultural norms that had protected women and forced men to take responsibility for their actions.

Somebody get Kevin the phone number of Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics. Dolan said women who are not married and do not have children are the happiest group in the population. He also said that unmarried and childless women are also likely to outlive their married child-rearing counterparts and are healthier than them.

]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/women-happy-children-spouse-partner-relationship-unmarried-a8931816.html

What color is the sky in Kevin Roberts' world? His world view is other-worldly. I don't think he and I live on the same planet.

Unmarried, childless women are the happiest. Kevin. Your wife must be miserable or dead from all the stress you cause her.

And the quote about the snake. Ugh.
Let's blame Eve. Her original sin.
A very long time ago, snakes were seen as the feminine divine. Cleopatra studied cobra venom. When she wasn't busying running Egypt.