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I am childless by choice, do not call me “under babied”. Why are these folks so thirsty for the US to become a baby factory? It’s not like they want to take care of children and nurture them.

So Republicans want a smaller government. They don't want the government telling you what to do. But they also want the government telling you how many children you should have?? Honestly, the USA has gone from a superpower to an absolute zero.

Deciding not to have children doesn't mean you are infertility. It means you made a personal decision. He should advocate that we address the issues that might be leading some to not want to have children instead of making up BS about being under-babied. That's some dangerous Orwellian thinking.

Darkest funniest thing is thanks to their fucked up handling of COVID (and the newest pandemics rfk is about to usher in) the reason 1 in 3 are ‘under babied’ is their very own eugenics: kinda hard to pop kids out when u can barely get through the day

Yeah that fact that the odds of dying in pregnancy and childbirth have skyrocketed surely has nothing to do with it. Or the fact $2000 gets you a studio apt in most cities. Childcare? Lololol. Nvm people are using payment plans for groceries

Even if we were hitting baby goals, 50% would be under babied. That’s how statistics works! If only 30% were under babied, we would be exceeding replacement numbers.

This is an age-old nationalistic impulse: they're playing the hits. Immigration is the way you combat a declining birth rate, as Dr. Oz would know (son of Turkish immigrants), but they want local baby production from True Americans for obvious and stupid reasons.

Would it ever occur to them that the current level of corruption being carried out by this Administration does not lend itself to an atmosphere where people would want to bring a new life into? Of course it wouldn't! They are the least self aware idiots on the planet.

With Trump having total control of Epstein files, probably won’t happen 😡 The full redacted versions shows what he was capable of. Rich pedophiles never are held accountable of rape of children. Acosta should be subpoenaed though!

Just a thought...how about implementing policies that make raising kids easier: universal health care; mandatory 12-52 weeks of paid parental leave; universal preschool; $20 federal minimum wage; etc. What else am I missing that most, civilized countries have?

I spoke with a friend last week who needs physical therapy. She can't see the therapist she needs because they limit Medicare patients. Medicare does not pay what is needed to sustain their business. I suspect this may hamper the idea of Medicare for all. Paying out of pocket is illegal = screwed

Come on Maga rednecks start churning out those babies that you won't be able to feed and get medical insurance for and your going to need a bigger place to live. Oh and the baby formula $50.00 for a 30oz. can and diapers $25.00 for a box of 30 for said babies.

experts estimate about 50% of unhoused people spent time in a foster family growing up once they age out of the program, they're often left with little resources THAT is a real problem to fix that could have a dramatic impact on homelessness (which is a real problem, opposed to underbabiedness)

Exactly! Tennessee still has foster kids sleeping in public buildings - thousands of kids are never adopted and age out each year. But the Republican supermajority is all excited to defund foster care, ban abortion, and vote for rapists. Vote the psychos OUT.

Come on, American women. You're America's incubators. Get out there and pop out babies for America. You'll get no help. Your kids will get no help. America needs you to struggle and suffer so the rich can have a sweet, sweet ride.

Right, they need slaves for the machine, and since so many die of preventable diseases now we need even more! I mean how can you get a Starbucks drink if you don’t have slaves to work at Starbucks?

😤😡 I wish these idiots in Govt would keep their damn noses outta people’s reproductive rights. These are the same people that take benefits (Snap, childcare, etc) away from parents that just need a bit of assistance.

Oh my God shut up you moron. The world was at a sustainable population in 1968. We still have too many people shut up. They just want poor children to send out to whatever war they are doing. Pathetic snake oil salesman.

Dr. Oz gets to decide that we’re “underbabied?” How does he know that the underbabied” have fewer children than they want? I had exactly the number of babies I wanted and did so without any input from crackpot Oz. We don’t need more babies, we need better babies.

Dr. Od fails to mention, that of the 340,000,00 people in the United States, 75% are white. And there is a significantly wider gap when talking about just Latinos (the Trump sycophant’s red meat targets) in America, but they want you to assume some fear mongering narrative in the omitted details.

I would not be surprised if one day Trump dragged a bunch of young women wearing red robes and hoods into the oval to introduce Trump baby week or some such disgusting thing. Appalled? Yes. Surprised? No.

I grew up during the cold war and read a lot. Why would I want to subject another human to that fear? “You've thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled Fear to bring children into the world For threatening my baby, unborn and unnamed You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins” -Dylan

It will take a Generation or two after MAGA have been confined to the dustbin of history. The First World have a hard time with Apartheid Israel. American Apartheid will be something else entirely. Your trumpieland is best avoided. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

Seriously. You can't get paid leave to be pregnant or give birth. Republicans are trying to close public school and won't subsidize daycare. Shit's too expensive for an adult! Last thing I need in this mess is a toddler.

He’s mad that (white) uterus-havers aren’t churning out 7-15 babies each anymore. You know, like in the Good Old Days when half of said kids would die before their fifth birthday and also women weren’t legally recognized as people.

How could anyone be under babied? Don't most people get to decide how many babies they might want. I only have one child, and I am not under babied. In fact, I am just right babied for me. The entire administration is just a bunch of idiots.

They want workers They'll cut any kind of healthcare, food and nutritional support, make childcare costs worse and destroy public education but they want more babies. Not from their families, though. They want uneducated workers who won't make a fuss

Because people are too stupid to understand that the U.S. has fallen below replacement birthrate. Why do they have to say it the stupidest, creepiest way possible?

underbabied . . . i am getting t-shirts made up saying 'R U UNDERBABIED?' . . . another will say 'MY BODY . . . MY UNDERBABY' . . . and yet another will be lighthearted and fun, saying 'UNDER REPRESENTED, UNDER PAID, AND UNDERBABIED' - - -gee, republicans come up with the cutest sayings!

Yeah, they literally don't care about babies or child bearers. Their aim is to physically hobble half the population as soon as they become fertile, by keeping them continuously pregnant, trying to raise numerous children, or dying during pregnancy/childbirth.

What in the world in the subtle fixation on "babies" with these guys? bsky.app/profile/moth...

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

A new wave of genetic optimization startups promises to yield healthier and, in some cases, more intelligent babies. One tech mogul who hasn’t jumped on the bandwagon? Elon Musk, because of what he calls “the Hitler problem.”

I have 3 children, am i at equilibrium? Wait does he mean 33% of women need more babies? Does this include men? Children? Does 1/3 of the total populace need one more baby? thats 113 million more babies. How are we going to feed them when we have hunger issues with babies we have? I'm confused

Under WHAT??? Is the Wizzy of Oz of sound mind and body??? Kids are undernourished in this country, lack safe shelter, suffer from abuse and that Wizzy Oz wants more babies brought into this hell. Stop listening to these Bogus Babies.

A lunatic television fraud somehow in charge of medicaid rambling natalist nonsense to a nodding row of the whitest people ever while another lunatic television fraud somehow in charge of the country drifts in and out of consciousness. Just another Monday in America, 2026.

Less self awareness than a dog licking it's balls in public. These morons think not WANTING to bring children into a hellscape country is the same as infertility. Far from it. If there is no optimism for a brighter future, people won't have kids.

Same and same. I just did a search because I hadn't seen anything from him in a while and this reminded me. It does appear that he's not here anymore.

This in addition to the extremely high cost of having a child. An absurd idea of the magats is to give a couple of thousand dollars tax credit to encourage births - an amount that would hardly get a child born.

The unmitigated gall of these folks telling women (and couples) how to live. First, tell us you’re going to underinsure Americans, gut research, take our jobs and spend money on foreign wars, and then tell us to have more children.