Women in the US are being pushed from the frying pan into a five-alarm authoritarian fire. Religious conservatives, Christian nationalists and the tech bros of Silicon Valley, who have long conspired to put women back in their pre-civil-rights boxes, are not only winning, they’re becoming bolder and more organised.

In January, the Heritage Foundation published a sweeping roadmap for rolling back a century of women’s progress called Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years. These are the same ultraconservative folks that developed the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term, Project 2025 – so this is not simply wishful thinking.

The premise of the report – reversing population decline by putting marriage and family first – seems benign on the surface. But beneath the white picket fence messaging there’s something more sinister.

Their strategy for addressing the “emergency” of low fertility rates – a trope they share with white supremacists and the manosphere – is to limit women’s choices so that their only option is to marry and have babies.

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Goals include: banning same-sex marriage and limiting IVF, limiting contraception, ending what it characterises as the “normalisation” of no-fault divorce, penalising single mothers,........

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