Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said a new bill would tackle the “ideology of childlessness.”
Russia’s fight against the West and its values has taken aim this week at an “ideology” that the Kremlin and its allies say threatens the country’s very foundations: people not wanting to have children.
Lawmakers have proposed a ban on “propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children,” Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said in a post on Telegram on Tuesday.
It is the latest effort by authorities to combat the demographic strain of falling birth rates, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, which the Kremlin says could threaten the country’s long-term outlook. In July, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Russia’s declining birth rate “catastrophic for the future of the nation.”
This is what JD Vance wants for America
Under His eye.
This, together with the wifebeater-law, is what Hexbears want for America
How long ‘til this becomes a GOP plank?
believe it or not, straight to jail
Fertility clinic
No matter what you do, right to jail
Should we make a society that people want to bring a child into??
Nah lol
💡If we simply make it illegal to… not have children? No, that’s not right. Not want to have children? No, impossible to enforce. Ah, it must be illegal to profess the lack of desire to have children. What a beautiful and simple law that will certainly address the root cause of falling birth rates.
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Does anyone know the strategic reason for right wing authoritarians prioritizing people having kids? Like project 2025 talks about it a bunch, but nothing totally clear cut comes to mind as to why. At least not that feels like it fully justifies how clearly important it is, and that isn’t just me dismissing it as meaningless control or whatever. It feels strategically important
In this case it’s clearly important militarily, but that’s also not likely to help in the present conflict in Ukraine. It’ll take a long time for those kids to grow up, but at least they’d help mitigate population loss
Corporations need consumers (constant growth model). Military needs more living soldiers.
You know, I would bet there’s tens of thousands of Russians that would be interested in having children if they didn’t all have a case of unnecessary deadness. If only something could have been done to avoid that.
But if you can’t send them to get gunned down in a foreign land, what is even the point of having more children? Do you hear yourself?
I hate headlines with the word could. Remind me when it has or is. I could become a billionaire but it’s highly unlikely I will. Just like her fine or the arrest of Putin.
I think there’s a time between “This thing is possible I guess” and “you’re already fucked” that I’d like to hear about things.
