The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/opinion/trump-birth-control.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cVA.t30R.siSO77FL75xu

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nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 75 pts · 125d (2 replies)

The benefits of the bipartisan-passed Title X from 1969 that Pedophile Trump intends to kill:

It would go on to become one of the most successful federal programs of the last century, with one study finding it prevented some 20 million unintended pregnancies in just 20 of its 50 years by providing women with free and low-cost birth control. It has significantly reduced child poverty. In 1957, nearly one in 10 teenage girls gave birth. Today, the rate is closer to one in 100. For every dollar spent on family planning funds, the government saves $7 in Medicaid costs.

But something very much like this was already on your bingo card.

danc4498@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 125d (1 reply)

Teen pregnancies and generational poverty. That’s the goal.

null@lemmy.org · 16 pts · 125d

The Epstein class looks at that figure not as an achievement in quality of life improvements, but as 20 million lost workers trapped in poverty and another 20 million workers to replace them.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 125d (5 replies)

"Mr. Trump seems aimed at getting more women pregnant, whether they want to be or not."

That's kind of always been his thing.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 125d

Didn't you see the news, teen pregnancy 14 to 19 is down. Its a major crisis!

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 124d

That's The Handmaid's Tale

HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 124d

Yeah Republicans aren't the best when it comes to consent.

minorkeys@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 125d (1 reply)

37% of Americans support him still

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 125d

37% of humanity is a problem worldwide. Dumb as shit, an/or racist, and/or sociopathic assholes.

baronvonj@piefed.social · 41 pts · 125d

just as many predicted.

grue@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 125d

Yet [contraception] doesn’t come up in the section spelling out the department’s top Title X spending priorities. What does? Addressing “exposure to harmful chemical and environmental toxins,”...

Meanwhile, they're systematically dismantling the EPA in order to supercharge "exposure to harmful chemical and environmental toxins," so you know exactly how (in)sincere they are about this shit.

LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 124d

Real fuckin glad I yeeted my uterus

Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 125d

If only there was a way to stop this.

panthera_@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 125d (5 replies)

If poor women have unwanted children, they will become poorer and the Trump administration is not going to provide support for them.

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 125d (2 replies)
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Wakmrow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 124d (1 reply)

I didn't like this joke

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 124d
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minorkeys@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 125d

They don't care. Whoever lives, lives, whoever dies, dies. They'll harvest the useful poor and ignore the plight of the rest.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 5 pts · 125d

They want a third world economy

SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 125d

"won't someone think of the children's children?!"