Reproductive
Did You Know?
Adoption is a multi-billion-dollar for-profit industry.
https://adoptioncouncil.org/blog/where-does-all-the-money-go/
https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/the-adoption-trap/264499
https://urge.org/the-adoption-industry-family-planning-tool-or-reproductive-injustice/
https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/industry/adoption-child-welfare-services/1606/
https://open.spotify.com/show/3JWCSfFXnutyd6lARu7Dn0
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/liberty-lost/id1815337795
Population Decline
2026-02-25 Reports show the current global population is over 8 billion, compared to 1.4 billion in 1900.
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/is-declining-world-population-a-problem/
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5576355/population-babies-capitalism
https://www.healthpolicypartnership.com/an-ageing-and-declining-population-from-10-billion-to-bust/
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/population-crisis-capitalism
1973
1973-01-22 Roe v. Wade legalized abortion.
1982
1982-01-01 Televangelist Jerry Falwell founded Virginia’s Liberty Godparent Home as an alternative to abortion. Former residents alleged coercion, shame, manipulation, forced birth, and pressured adoptions.
https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/10/liberty-university-maternity-home-unwed-mothers-teenagers/
https://therevealer.org/all-aboard-the-orphan-train/
1992
1992-05-02 Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the TV show Murphy Brown for portraying single motherhood, accusing the show of “mocking the importance of fathers” and citing a lack of values.
https://www.vh1.com/news/a63wrv/murphy-brown-candice-bergen-single-mother-controversy
https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/37143/murphy-brown-dan-quayle-criticism/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/22/entertainment/dan-quayle-murphy-brown-cat-ladies-cec
1994
1994-01-01 Evangelicals pushed a national “purity” movement containing distorted and misleading information, racist stereotypes and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.
https://wpln.org/post/30-years-later-the-evangelical-purity-movement-still-impacts-sex-education/
INTERACTIVE MAP https://siecus.org/siecus-state-profiles/
2022 NIH REPORT https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34556007/
APRIL 2007 REPORT https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_legacy_files//42311/report.pdf
DECEMBER 2004 REPORT https://spot.colorado.edu/~tooley/HenryWaxman.pdf
2001
2001-09-09 Republicans restricted federal funding for STEM cell research, limiting life-changing possibilities for regenerative medicine and destroying the path to curing things like Parkinson’s, diabetes, and heart failure.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC558192/
2003
2003-01-01 Janet Porter founded the conservative Christian ministry Faith 2 Action, which was classified as a hate group in 2018. She authored HB493 Ohio “Heartbeat Bill”, claimed gay marriage caused Noah’s floods, and was the director of the Center for Reclaiming America which is a far-right organization bent on returning society to a “biblical worldview”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Porter
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/religious-right-hurls-false-accusations-splc/
https://time.com/4671800/hate-groups-on-the-rise/
2012
2012-03-01 Rush Limbaugh attacked women asking for birth control, “So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal: If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. And I’ll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch”.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/limbaughs-message-to-feminazis-44461123751
2012-04-01 Rick Santorum campaigned on anti-gay rhetoric and abortion misinformation. He claimed there was nothing in America before white colonizers arrived and that Native Americans had not contributed to American culture, marriage equality would lead to sibling marriages or man on dog marriages, and gay rights prevented God from blessing America.
https://www.harrywalker.com/speakers/rick-santorum
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/candidates/rick-santorum/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum
https://www.dignityusa.org/articles/dignityusa-responds-to-comments-by-senator-rick-santorum
EXCELLENT ARTICLE https://glaad.org/gap/rick-santorum/
EXCELLENT ARTICLE https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/cpac-2019-a-lot-like-a-trump-campaign-event
CNN CUT TIES WITH HIM https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-cnn-native-americans_n_60a92fa6e4b0313547978140
SANTORUM OPINION ON MLK JR https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/martin-luther-king-jr-according-to-the-right
SANTORUM ON GAY MARRIAGE https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/santorum-allowing-gay-marriage-like-changing-the-chemical-equation-for-water
SANTORUM ON NATIVE AMERICANS https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-native-american-culture_n_6086ddb7e4b05af50db9656b?or
2017
2017-01-03 News stories circulated around, “Make America Mate Again”.
https://politicaltheology.com/make-america-mate-again%EF%BF%BC/
https://americanmind.org/salvo/make-america-mate-again/
PAY WALL https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-01-03/make-america-mate-again
2019
2019-01-01 Alt-right women’s magazine Evie was founded by the Hugoboom family. Its 2024 cover featured “Ballerina Farm” and “The Importance of Being Sexy,” promoting the trad-wife movement. Hugoboom also launched the “Toxic Breakup” supplement, marketed to “detox the body” after stopping birth control. In 2022, the owners launched a menstrual-tracking app funded by Peter Thiel that drew controversy for its pro-life rhetoric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evie_Magazine
https://www.wired.com/story/burnt-hair-and-soft-power-a-night-out-with-evie-magazine/
https://28.co/shop/toxic-breakup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-Hsh1B2TA&list=WL&index=2
2020
2020-11-24 Vance said on The Chris Buskirk Show, “There’s just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really valuable when you have kids in your life. And the fact that so many people, especially in America’s leadership class, just don’t have that in their lives, you know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less…less mentally stable”.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/966-the-chris-buskirk-show-45914131/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2021
2022-07-21 Scott Perry and other GOP members voted against the Right to Contraception Act.
https://emilyslist.org/on-notice/scott-perry/
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022385
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4381/text
2021-07-24 During The Future of American Political Economy conference in Alexandria Virginia JD Vance asserted that non-parents should not vote.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jesse-watters-goes-rant-sexist-133356237.html
https://isi.org/j-d-vance-on-our-civilizational-crisis/
2021-07-29 JD Vance’s redundant “childless cat ladies” remarks made headlines.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6265796735001
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/26/trump-running-mate-jd-vance-defends-childless-cat-ladies.html
2021-09-22 Vance was asked if a woman should be forced to carry a child to term after she was victim of incest or rape. He didn’t say no.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/oct/12/context-what-jd-vance-said-about-rape-abortion-and/
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/573737-jd-vance-defends-texas-abortion-law/
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/16/vance_abortion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2022
2022-06-24 When the courts overturned Roe v. Wade Justice Samuel Alito asserted that abortion didn’t have anything to do with gender equity, wasn’t an economic issue, and claimed that “women are not without electoral or political power”, contradicting evidence of racial divide, demographic disparities, and sometimes women having no power because they are not given agency in circumstances of abuse.
https://msmagazine.com/2022/07/22/alito-abortion-bans-history-discrimination-women-gender/
https://19thnews.org/2022/05/supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-abortion-economy/
2022-06-24 After the Trump administration overturned Roe v. Wade, the ability to ban contraception was returned to the States. This left several health organizations afraid to offer contraception for fear of breaking the law. One Attorney General nominee even compared birth control to fentanyl.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1102305878/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn
2022-07-28 Matt Gaetz mocked abortion-rights supporters at Turning Point Action, saying, “Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb”.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114300388/matt-gaetz-olivia-julianna-abortion-gen-z-for-change
https://www.yahoo.com/news/matt-gaetz-says-pro-choice-095047625.html
2022-08-19 Amber Thurman died after delayed abortion-related care under restrictive state laws. Trump later dismissed questions about the case during a Fox forum. Amber passed away from preventable septic shock and retained products of conception following a medication abortion, with delays in receiving necessary medical care contributing to her death. The care was delayed because when she showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital for a routine D&C to remove fetal tissue from her body that hadn’t been expelled, she was denied immediate treatment because her State had made performing the procedure a felony. Doctors would have been prosecuted for up to a decade in prison. She waited 20 hours in a hospital bed while providers monitored her blood pressure sinking and organ failure before they operated, but by then it was too late. During a forum with Fox News on women’s issues, Trump was asked, ”…Amber Thurman’s family have come out on a press call and they’re doing what’s called a prebuttal to our town hall right now…” to which Trump replied ”…Oh that’s nice. We’ll get better ratings, I promise.”*
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKv6W5_OQnc&list=WL&index=7&t=298s
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amber-thurman-delayed-abortion-georgia/
2023
2023-11-14 Due to anti-abortion laws in Texas Ciji Graham was refused treatment for a severe episode of atrial fibrillation and died. She was pregnant and doctors wouldn’t treat her.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-abortion-laws-ciji-graham
2024 February
2024-02-29 Republicans blocked an IVF bill while making false claims about human-animal chimeras; Emma Waters later suggested IVF outsourcing could invite birthright citizenship.
https://www.newsweek.com/ivf-bill-blocked-cindy-hyde-smith-1874559
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/taming-ivfs-wild-west
2024 May
2024-05-01 Florida banned abortions after 6 weeks before women even know they’re pregnant (giving women about 2 weeks to find care), even after over 150,000 registered Republican voters joined the rest of us to KEEP abortion access available.
https://www.aclufl.org/know-your-rights/abortion-access-florida/
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1247990353/florida-6-week-abortion-ban-south
2024 June
2024-06-05 Republicans blocked a bill designed to protect contraception access.
https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-senators-vote-against-right-contraception-act-2024-6
2024-06-11 A national poll showed that 4-out-of-5 Americans support protection to contraception access.
2024 July
2024-07-26 Vance doubled down on his cat lady remarks, “Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats”.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/26/trump-running-mate-jd-vance-defends-childless-cat-ladies.html
2024-07-26 A news article quoted JD Vance, ”…the rejection of the American family…is perhaps the most pernicious and evil thing the left has done…”.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/26/trump-running-mate-jd-vance-defends-childless-cat-ladies.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw
2024 September
2024-09-08 Charlie Kirk answered a question if his ten-year-old daughter were pregnant from a rape if he would force pregnancy, “The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV29R1M25n8
2024-09-10 Trump falsely claimed that Democrats support “after birth” abortions.
https://19thnews.org/2024/09/trump-doubles-down-abortion-execution-babies-debate/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/health/trump-abortion-after-birth
2024-09-16 At least two women in Georgia were refused treatment for a medical condition and died due to anti-abortion laws.
https://www.propublica.org/people/kavitha-surana
2024 October
2024-10-30 Josseli Barnica died in Texas after being told it would be a “crime” to intervene in her miscarriage.
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
2024 November
2024-11-01 Nevaeh Crain died after she was refused lifesaving treatment due to anti-abortion laws.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala
2024-11-12 Talarico filed HB308 to prevent Texas courts from forcing pregnant people to remain legally married until after childbirth. Judges could grant divorce while postponing unresolved custody, parentage or property questions and maintaining necessary protective orders. The bill received no further legislative action and died in committee.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00308I.htm
2024-11-25 Porsha Ngumezi died after being refused a life-saving D&C procedure due to anti-abortion laws.
https://www.propublica.org/people/kavitha-surana
2025 January
2025-01-20 The Trump administration removed websites offering reproductive health information.
https://reproductiverights.org/abortion-deleted-from-all-hhs-web-pages/
2025-01-23 Trump pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted under the FACE Act for blockading clinics and harassing patients and providers (Page 558 of Project 2025 outlines recommendations to question and/or dismantle the FACE Act.)
https://reproductiverights.org/trump-pardons-23-people-attacked-abortion-patients-clinics/
2025-01-24 Trump signed an executive order entitled “Enforcing the Hyde Amendment” to dismantle reproductive healthcare, end efforts to protect patient/provider privacy, cease abortion access, block data and research, and stop public education and awareness.
2025-01-24 Trump reenacted a policy banning aid to groups abroad that discuss or provide abortions.
The ban was supported by ADF International legal communications director Elyssa Koren.
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/10-shocking-facts-about-the-alliance-defending-freedom
2025 July
2025-07-30 Christian nationalist pastors and influencers pushed pronatalism, telling women to “have as many babies as you can afford”. As Doug Wilson said, “Women are the kind of people that people come out of”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N89iv-FdSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKcawN1mtys
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JGoymv33ZWc
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT3iI8gDsJC/
https://1819news.com/culture/sarah-wilder-have-more-babies-than-you-can-afford
https://19thnews.org/2025/09/turning-point-usa-erika-kirk-views-gender-roles-marriage-motherhood/
https://mom.com/news/woman-pretends-formula-churches-help-viral-video
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/allie-beth-stuckey-christian-podcaster-2220d64c
2025 August
2025-08-01 The Trump administration banned veterans from accessing abortion care or counseling.
https://reproductiverights.org/5-things-trump-va-abortion-ban/
2025-08-22 Texas proposed a bill giving the State the ability to sue whoever mails out or provides abortion medication.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/22/texas-abortion-pill-restrictions-lawsuit-manufacturer/
2025 September
2025-09-10 Emma Waters of the Heritage Foundation addressed pro-life views, saying outsourcing IVF could invite birthright citizenship.
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/taming-ivfs-wild-west
2025-09-10 In an effort to ensure safety for both patients and providers, California considered a law to omit names from abortion pill bottles.
2025-09-12 Medicaid ended for Planned Parenthood, as pro-life advocates claimed they were being forced to fund what they call the “abortion industry”.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/planned-parenthood-medicaid-funding-blocked-for-now-appeals-court/
2025-09-26 A Fox headline read, “appeals court hears Medicaid fraud case that could cost Planned Parenthood $1.8 billion”.
2025 November
2025-11-18 Anti-abortion bill SB323 Unborn Child Protection Act was presented on the Senate floor which aims to make abortions a felony homicide carrying a 30-year prison sentence, make it a felony to share information where to get an abortion, remove exceptions for rape, incest and fatal fetal abnormalities, and reclassify birth control pills, IUDs and IVF illegal.
https://www.aclusc.org/legislation/total-abortion-ban-s-323/
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/323.htm
https://msmagazine.com/2025/11/24/south-carolina-abortion-sb-323/
2025 December
2025-12-26 Karoline Leavitt announced she’s pregnant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDRPN6cmWEg
2026 January
2026-01-09 Lindsey Graham said “Because I’m pro-life doesn’t mean I won’t kill you” at a pro-life dinner hosted by South Carolina Citizens for Life.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rAWXsaJdZqw
2026-01-22 Republicans banned the use of fetal tissue in research, further limiting life-changing possibilities for regenerative medicine and destroying the path to curing things like Parkinson’s, diabetes, and heart failure
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/health/fetal-tissue-nih-research
2026 March
2026-03-12 Costco announced a partnership with Sesame and IVI RMA North America to offer discounted IVF treatment.
https://rx.costco.com/fertility
https://abc7.com/post/costco-launches-program-cut-fertility-drug-prices-members/18708097/
2026-03-17 Ohio introduced bill HB-754 which would require a State-run registry of pregnancies requiring providers to provide a certificate of life within ten days of detecting a fetal heartbeat. It would also require death certificates be issued. If passing of the fetus (such as in miscarriage) is sudden, the provider is required to order an investigation into the death.
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/hb754
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/politics/ohio-bill-would-require-fetal-life-and-death-certificates/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g55ZtN2ka2g&list=WL&index=3&t=39s
2026-03-26 Benny Johnson told CPAC attendees to “out-breed” liberals, “Having children and starting a family is the culture war right there”, and “Because the left, we’re gonna just outbreed them! Can I get a witness? Can I get an amen? We’re just going to outbreed the left. You ever met a lib?”.
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/maga-outbreed-left-wing-babies-1760769.amp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wShzNx6RVg
2026 May
2026-05-02 The Supreme Court banned, then temporarily lifted the ban on, mifepristone.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/supreme-court-abortion-pill-mifepristone.html
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5810510/supreme-court-mifepristone-appeals-telehealth
2026-05-03 The anti-abortion movement turned on Trump, with its president Marjorie Dannenfelser saying, “Trump is the problem. The president is the problem”. Meanwhile abortion rates soared after overturning Roe v Wade.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/mifepristone-trump-abortion-pill-ruling-mail
https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaders-in-anti-abortion-movement-turn-on-problem-donald-trump/
PAY WALL https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-anti-abortion-movement-76393c1c
2026-05-10 Erika Kirk and her friends kept pushing “have more babies than you can afford”.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/erika-kirk-christian-women-tpusa-1235576963/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=padlD7Dp75I&list=WL&index=2&t=5s
https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/10/erika-kirk-advises-young-marriage-during-speech/
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/erika-kirks-have-more-kids-speech-fuels-backlash/gm-GMBBB7B3FF
2026-05-12 Dr. Oz said 30% of American women are “under-babied”, saying “You have to get moms healthy enough to do the most creative thing the universe knows, which is making babies”. For context, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study cites that even though there is a record low fertility rate in 2024, the birth rate is still higher than the number of deaths, meaning population is not in decline.
https://people.com/dr-oz-says-americans-under-babied-11972922
JOHNS HOPKINS STUDY https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/is-the-us-birth-rate-declining
GREAT VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xi-oCvqouA&list=WL&index=5
2026-05-14 The Supreme Court blocked a lower court ruling that would ban mifepristone access via mail in a 7-to-2 ruling on shadow docket.
https://19thnews.org/2026/05/supreme-court-ban-abortion-pill-mail/
2026-05-15 Jesse Watters said on The Five, “I did some research on the Blacks – as Judge Janine so eloquently would say – um. The solution to Hakeem’s problem, the (ske?) Obama, is baby making. Blacks for 150 years have only represented 10 to 15% of the American population. Okay? That’s not that much. So, if they wanna have more seats, they gotta get in between the sheets. Spanish – they’re comin’ North, they’re havin’ tons of kids, and at this point they have the same – almost – the same amount of house seats as Blacks! The Hispanic caucus is almost as big as the – the Black caucus. So, if you guys need to solve that problem you know what you need to do”.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jesse-watters-says-blacks-more-150113637.html
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jesse-watters-tells-blacks-more-221605439.html
https://www.aol.com/articles/fox-news-host-jesse-watters-130100000.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXhT-kzwVhY&list=WL&index=6&t=12s
2026 June
2026-06-22 Texas resident Lynn Callaway was denied critical medical care during a miscarriage due to anti-abortion laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJrDWrnWc0&list=WL&index=5&t=193s
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/22/texas-miscarriage-abortion-ban-hospital-complaint/