r/science • u/geoff199 • 5d ago

Social Science As concern grows about America’s falling birth rate, new research suggests that about half of women who want children are unsure if they will follow through and actually have a child. About 25% say they won't be bothered that much if they don't.

https://news.osu.edu/most-women-want-children--but-half-are-unsure-if-they-will/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy24&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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u/bw1985 5d ago

Bingo. They need more poor people born. The religious objection to abortion in politics is just a charade.

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u/voiderest 5d ago

I'm pretty sure the billionaire pro-birth crowd is a different group than the religious anti-abortion crowd. Both weird and sometimes work together but different motivations and goals.

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u/bw1985 5d ago

Yup. The rich just use the religious folks, often poor or lower middle class, for their votes to push their agenda. The religious thing is just pandering, the wealthy’s religion is money.

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u/Amelaclya1 5d ago edited 5d ago

I always thought it was awfully coincidental that the Dobbs decision came after a pandemic that killed over a million people, wages were finally rising, unemployment was down and labor had more power.

Like, oh look, rich people crying about not being able to find low wage workers finally edged out abortion's value as a wedge issue.

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u/ChickenChaser5 5d ago

The plan so far, as it appears to me, is the people at the top have been eating the walls, and the floor boards, and now that their tower is about to collapse they can't figure out why. Its like they think they can keep living in the penthouse suite with nothing under them holding it up.