Funders Must Support Advocates Fighting Back Against Pronatalism
“It is vital that we expose the pronatalist agenda for what it really is: a racist, sexist set of policies that is narrowly focused on boosting birth rates for ‘acceptable’ people, which often means White, straight, and conservative,” Sydney Petersen, senior media relations manager at the National Women’s Law Center, told NPQ. “At the same time, this movement is attempting to limit options for women and take supports away from those who don’t fit into their narrow definition of who should be making a family.”
…While the current presidency is a major win for the pronatalist movement, there is still time to fight back, and advocates are intensifying their efforts. “[N]ow is the time to launch an aggressive campaign to undercut their power,” Petersen told NPQ. The National Women’s Law Center, for example, is “fighting back against the dangerous pronatalist agenda coming out of the White House and conservative organizations” …