There's a lot more to explore on this -- I've been working on a longer post that gets into similar themes -- but I wanted to put this link up, because lorraine's diary on DKos today is worth going to and reading right now:

Fascist ideology, while decrying sex, promote reproduction as being good for the state. As part of that ideology, it often features pro-natalist propaganda while not actually supporting the children who are born....

Think of our own nation, which encourages women to give birth but then does nothing to support them once babies are born. But, for the right wing in our country, it would prefer that all women who give birth be heterosexual, married, and, I would argue, not out there competing for jobs against men. In other words, the stay-at-home mom who raises her children while her husband earns money.

The cult of motherhood means also that the state has a stake in controlling access to abortion....

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