The Class Struggle: April 2025

1). “Bro-Natalists Are Ruining America: Elon Musk & JD Vance want you to have more babies”, Apr 22, 2025, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/pro-natalism-explainer-bro-natalist >.

2). “Women Are Twice As Likely to Die in Pregnancy in States with Abortion Bans”, Apr 23, 2025, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/women-are-twice-as-likely-to-die >.

3). “The Mystery of the Declining U.S. Birth Rate”, Feb 15, 2022, Melissa Kearney, Phillip Levine & Luke Pardue, Econofact, at < https://econofact.org/the-mystery-of-the-declining-u-s-birth-rate >.A longer more detailed academic version is available at “The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession”, Melissa Kearney, Phillip Levine & Luke Pardue, Journal of Economic Perspective, V 36, No 1, Winter 2022, Pages 151–176, at < https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.36.1.151 >.

4). “The Trump Team Wants to Boost Birth Rates While Poisoning Children: Sure, they’re contemplating a 'baby bonus.' But they’re also cutting funding for children’s health, reversing PFAS and lead pipe rules, eliminating food safety measures, and attacking vaccines. Call it two sides of the eugenicist coin”, Apr 27, 2025, Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, at < https://newrepublic.com/article/194429/trump-vance-birth-rates-lead-milk-measles >

5). “Trump Wants A 'Baby Boom' Yet Plans to Cut Essential Childcare Program Head Start”, Apr 25, 2025, Erin Ryan & Alyssa Mastromonaco discuss the Trump Baby Boom proposals & interview Reshma Saujani, founder of Moms First, HYSTERIA, duration of video 49:21, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P-YsznPwJE&t=498s >.

6). “US birth rates near record low as Trump, Musk talk baby boom”, Apr 23, 2025, Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, at < https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5263801-us-birth-rates-near-record-low-as-trump-musk-talk-baby-boom/ >.

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