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Trump has turned Title X upside down: from a contraception program into a pro-natalist machine | Moira Donegan

By Moira Donegan

First the administration sought to defund Title X. Now it’s reimagining what it stands for The Trump administration, dominated by religious anti-abortion conservatives and reeling in money from a new wave of pronatalist tech reactionaries, has long been considering ways to persuade, pressure and cajole women into having more babies. The Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade in 2022, in which Donald Trump’s three first-term supreme court appointees cast decisive votes, was a first step; later,...