I feel like southern states are about to see a sharp decline in middle class births. For one thing, the middle class is just disappearing. Secondly, these are the folks most impacted by these backwards policies. Rich people can do whatever they want wherever they want with regards to having or aborting pregnancies. Cynical take, but poor people will keep popping out kids at an Idiocracy-like rate regardless of policy (and why they keep voting for these politicians). So it’s possible the South is going to slide into a medieval-style class system where you’re either the wealthy “owning” class, or the poor “renting” class. It could be argued that Mississippi is already pretty close to this.
I love it when random people insinuate poor people are stupid and then blame them for their own suffering. And also that poor people aren’t impacted by laws governing fertility rights? Poor people can still need IVF, that is not a class specific issue.
I feel they were going for under-educated in their take. Being intelligent but lacking access to knowledge starts someone at a severe disadvantage, and as libraries fall, phones cost $1000 plus the plan, and financial support for low income internet is gone, their concerns become more valid.
I feel like southern states are about to see a sharp decline in middle class births. For one thing, the middle class is just disappearing. Secondly, these are the folks most impacted by these backwards policies. Rich people can do whatever they want wherever they want with regards to having or aborting pregnancies. Cynical take, but poor people will keep popping out kids at an Idiocracy-like rate regardless of policy (and why they keep voting for these politicians). So it’s possible the South is going to slide into a medieval-style class system where you’re either the wealthy “owning” class, or the poor “renting” class. It could be argued that Mississippi is already pretty close to this.
I love it when random people insinuate poor people are stupid and then blame them for their own suffering. And also that poor people aren’t impacted by laws governing fertility rights? Poor people can still need IVF, that is not a class specific issue.
I feel they were going for under-educated in their take. Being intelligent but lacking access to knowledge starts someone at a severe disadvantage, and as libraries fall, phones cost $1000 plus the plan, and financial support for low income internet is gone, their concerns become more valid.