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What’s frustrating about this is that conservatives are always warning about the decreasing child birth rate. But fight against policies that would help support families who have children.

Universal healthcare is similar. You want to support small businesses? Lack of affordable healthcare stops a lot of people from leaving corporate America to start their own business.

>>scarfa+(OP)
>What’s frustrating about this is that conservatives are always warning about the decreasing child birth rate. But fight against policies that would help support families who have children.

That's what happens when party doesn't have an actual policy stance and min-maxes their pooling numbers based on target audience instead.

Another more cynical take is "childbirths" is just a code for racism and "pro-life" a code for religious types.

>>Murome+G5
It’s not just pro-life - even though it might encourage more women to not have abortions - it’s also they want to stave off the country from becoming “majority minority” to “preserve their culture”.

The minute they even think that minorities are help by pro child policies they will be back to the “welfare queen” dog whistles that Reagan did.

But to be fair, a few of the religious non MAGA conservatives did understand that the best way to reduce abortions were to support new mothers and children. But now that Roe v Wade has been overturned, they don’t seem to care about it anymore.

>>scarfa+(OP)
> What’s frustrating about this is that conservatives are always warning about the decreasing child birth rate. But fight against policies that would help support families who have children.

Didn't the Big Beautiful Bill include $5K for newborn babies? I thought I saw a headline that said that. But anyway, yeah, 5-grand is gonna solve everything. /s