“The birth rate decreases because infertility increases. [… ] Morals are changing, we are having children later and later, both male and female infertility has increased significantly in recent years and causes many couples to suffer. A major plan to combat this plague will be launched to enable this demographic rearmament. »
No, you are not reading a political speech from the 1940s or even a passage from a dystopian novel, but an excerpt from the speech given by Emmanuel Macron. On Tuesday 16 January 2024, in front of an audience of journalists, the President of the Republic held a press conference with warlike terms to encourage the French to revive the weak birth rate.
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“Discomfort” and anger on the left
And the least we can say is that it provoked a reaction. Far from being pleased with the bellicose metaphor that he associates with our womb, many female politicians have denounced the pronatalist speech of the Head of State, who evidently has never read The Scarlet Handmaid by Margaret Atwood, where the term “demographic rearmament” could easily have been used.
But this has not escaped the attention of many internet users, starting with Mélanie Vogel. On X, the environmentalist senator reminded us“We don’t have children to ‘reset’ anything” while MEP David Cormand posted a gif of the series adapted from the dystopian novel.
Marine Tondelier, national secretary of the EELV, also expressed this “fainting” to the idea that the fight against infertility is being used for political purposes.
On has never hidden his aversion to liberal democracy.
Still on “always against women”before posting several vintage images that already drew the parallel between the glory of the nation and the birth rate.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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