The Heritage Foundation’s latest document, “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,” was published in January, and its purported goal is to reverse the country’s declining birthrate.
See, if you can’t physically force women to have more babies, which is what abortion restrictions aim to do, you design government policies that pressure women into having more babies.
You cut off opportunities outside the home, you make the public sphere hostile to women’s independence and you create a system where the only viable path left for a woman is dependence on a man for survival. In other words, you drag the country back to a time when women had fewer choices.
People are less likely to build community with children as well. “Rugged individualism” and all that.
Nothing screams “american” like 4 kids, a ford expedition, and never talking to a neighbor or anyone with a slightly darker skin tone than you. Not to mention never voting for things that dont affect you directly, and having zero critical thought about how your actions affect others.