Pronatalism Isn’t a Solution, It’s a Problem.
By Sarah Jones,
Intelligencer
| 04. 17. 2025
We don’t need more Elon Musk babies. We need reproductive justice.
From the Natalism website
Elon Musk may not have appeared at the Natal Conference in Austin, Texas, this year, but he didn’t have to. The very concept of pronatalism owes its current prominence to him and his obsession with fertility. He wants to father a baby “legion,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, which must increase “before the apocalypse.” He controls the mothers of his children through payouts and legal threats, he has reportedly told people that he is “concerned” that developing countries will outbreed the West, and he isn’t alone.
Former venture capitalist Simone Collins did attend NatalCon, where she told an NPR reporter that she was prepared to die in childbirth. She also said she “would rather not do that,” but explained that “historically, women died in childbirth at roughly similar rates to the rates at which men died protecting their land or country.” I have no idea if that’s true, and I doubt Collins does either. It’s the sort of nonsense a person says to provoke a reporter, and Collins is good at that. She...
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