Last year, the rightwing think-tank the Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025, which laid out much of the policy blueprint for the current Trump administration. One of the project’s espoused goals was to permanently criminalize all pornography. Now, a Republican senator with kind words for Trump has introduced a bill that would do just that.
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which would effectively criminalize all pornography nationwide by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. For years, “obscenity” has been all but a defunct legal category that narrowly defines speech that remains unprotected by the First Amendment. Lee would explode this legal category, expanding it to encompass virtually all visual representations of sex.
I don’t see how the first two would increase the number of white babies proportionally to the rest of the babies being born. As far as I’m aware, the states with abortion restrictions have higher % black populations than the other states, for instance.
Sadly put them in jail, deport, provide inferior medical aid by capitalism means is the traditional answer.
Edit for drive-by down voters: I’m saying this is what they believe, not that it’s true or I believe it. I mean, all I’m talking about is the “Great Replacement” theory that people like Stephen Miller fully adhere to.
It’s pretty simple: the white population is losing ground relative to non-white populations. Yes, other populations will increase, but there’s a practical ceiling. They likely believe that the white population gains will more than offset any gains by other ethnicities.
For black populations specifically, I’d have to do some simple analysis on this data, but it doesn’t look particularly disproportionate in absolute numbers.
But really, I don’t believe the black population is the principal target. See the graph. Consider the immigration policy.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/all-recent-us-population-growth-comes-from-people-of-color-new-census-estimates-show/
I feel like your answer is just “they believe this will work.”
I mean, obviously. I’m not saying I believe it or that it’s viable.
most populations around the world are slowing in growth, plateauing, or declining. Seems as people become wealthier, and more educated, very young people begin having less/no kids, for the most part, and this lack of teen births is what is largely being lost when we see these declines.
Yeah, when people have educations they know the planet is fucked. Lmao at thinking it’s “money and education” that means less kids. It’s happening because the world is bad and the earth is fucked. Making it more complicated is hilarious