The Heritage Foundation’s latest document, “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,” was published in January, and its purported goal is to reverse the country’s declining birthrate.
See, if you can’t physically force women to have more babies, which is what abortion restrictions aim to do, you design government policies that pressure women into having more babies.
You cut off opportunities outside the home, you make the public sphere hostile to women’s independence and you create a system where the only viable path left for a woman is dependence on a man for survival. In other words, you drag the country back to a time when women had fewer choices.
On your second point: I’m pretty sure there will be a push to ban all contraceptives so the only option you have to not have children is to not have sex. Of course some people will abstain or do non-vaginal sex but it will be a numbers game.
Will be? They’ve been attacking them from every angle they can think of for years.