Tl;Dr: its mostly religious lunacy, bigotry and sadism
It's all about forcing white women to produce more white conservative babies to swell their ranks while keeping people of color down by forcing them to have a bunch of children they can't afford to give a good life.
And the demonizing of sex for pleasure, of course.
At least those are the obvious motivations. There's also the fact that many of them are megalomaniacal sadists who get off on hurting and controlling people, especially women, and don't much care about anything beyond that.
4 is actually: Religious nuts take over the party. Internal insanity increases, and is increasingly unchecked.
5: During Obama and Trump, even the Republicans are amazed at how well Fox and others are at propagandizing and convincing people of their lies. That means their ideology can go full propaganda, which is what we now see.
Why waste air, food or water on Charlie Kirk? He's absolutely unnecessary. It's like somebody left a stove on one time in 85 and now we have this dunce. He's a sad accident that should have been prevented, but now he's here inconveniencing everybody like a rock in our collective shoe. I wish there was a checkbox on my tax forms to get rid of this unfortunate accident of a person.
People don't desire sex with them. They may be able to coerce (religion) or get sex through power (money/influence), but they aren't generally sexually appealing.
If you don’t already know about it, search up tradwife culture. Some weirdo women like that sort of thing.
We can hate conservatives for the kind of world we know they want to bring about but we have to acknowledge the fact that some women are equally as stupid so as to want the same.
The Pill can in fact alter the smell based preferences of women, which temporarily alters mating preference. This is due to the pill simulating the hormones of pregnancy, as part of its mechanism of action.
However, I don't believe this is what Republicans are referring to, as in The Salon article Charlie Kirk is talking about it causing "brain damage".
No they're just being possessive and controlling assholes, as usual. They're anti-freedom.
Anecdotally pills can also alter behaviour and personality somewhat. Especially the megadose hormones like Depo-provera, that stuff messed up a girl I was dating long ago. Turned her into an emotional wreck. I would actually support not a ban, but warnings and restrictions on that particular product.
I've always felt that choices like the Mirena IUD should be promoted over systemic hormones, my ex-wife was very happy with them over the years and we agreed we'll be offering our daughter the option as soon as she gets her first period. For some reason they seem to push the Pill instead.
I know some people have issues with IUDs but if they work for you they really work. Her hormones changed and she went asexual after kids, but she still maintains an IUD just for the greatly diminished cramping and bleeding.
I read an article (and I think I posted it somewhere on Lemmy) a couple days ago about how mega-churches brainwash women into submitting to anything their husband requests. It goes hand in hand with this stuff
I didn't see this mentioned in the article, but I skimmed parts of it. Do they realize that preventing pregnancy isn't the only reason people use birth control? Are they planning on making medical exceptions? Let me be clear, it's still hugely fucked up either way; I'm just curious.
I took BC for several years for my endometriosis, and I knew several friends who were prescribed it as teens to treat similar conditions. And sometimes they didn't have a specific diagnosis, but they just had especially painful or frequent/heavy periods. Apart from that, aren't there certain medical treatments that require you to take birth control for x number of weeks bc they could harm a potential fetus? I can't remember a specific example.
And, yeah, preventing pregnancy is pretty damn important too. Fuck those guys.
In the video, in the link, he mentioned that birth control pills were used for all sorts of other things besides preventing pregnancy, like helping with acne amongst others. I wish I could quote you what he said, but I refuse to listen to it again, it's infuriating.
Anyways, point is, he knows and he believes all it's uses are wrong.
But thanks. And it only makes it more ironic what he's complaining about, because personally, getting my hormones under control made me way more emotionally stable.
My condition was absolutely debilitating -- I ended up doing 7th grade online at home, and it was miserable. If this idiot wants to take away medication that can keep a kid out of pain, I'd like to be first in line to personally rip his head off.
I'll add, the alternatives for 15 y/o me would have been stronger pain medication, or surgery. (...I mean, I switched to testosterone hrt after turning 18, and I guess you could consider that an option since it does stop periods. But somehow I doubt more trans people is what he wants lmao.)