pronatalist

The bad news is that in July 2010, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared the country's family planning programme ungodly and announced a new pronatalist policy.

Smart family planning improves women's health and cuts poverty 2011

First, in this pronatalist society, mothers are lifted to a higher status in the eyes of others, with popular refrains like "There's no more important job than motherhood!"

Melanie Notkin: Unnatural Women: Childless in America Melanie Notkin 2011

Ahmadinejad's program is reminiscent of the pronatalist policy Ayatollah Khomeini pursued following the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

Nasim Novin: Is Ahmadinejad Instigating a Demographic Catastrophe? 2010

Ahmadinejad's program is reminiscent of the pronatalist policy Ayatollah Khomeini pursued following the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

Nasim Novin: Is Ahmadinejad Instigating a Demographic Catastrophe? 2010

Quiverfull's pronatalist emphasis is linked to a companion doctrine of strident antifeminism among conservative Christians who see the women's liberation movement as the origin of a host of social ills, from abortion to divorce, women working and teen sex.

Extreme Motherhood 2009

The pronatalist society has increased the sense of failure in infertile couples, pushing them to find a variety of solutions for infertility.

Reproductive Technology, New (NRT). leBeit Yoreh 2009

"Stoned" pregnancy and parenthood enhanced a couple's status in the pronatalist social system of The Farm, but couples had to balance the desire for children against the demands that pregnancy and child nurture would make on their time and energy.

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

The greatest conceit - that pregnancy is not a health issue and women's lives are expendable - underlies the dual standards of Republican Party pronatalist policy demanding female submission to males who assume the right to hold women hostage to biology.

Michele Swenson: "Non-Personhood" for Women: Defining Women Down 2008

The greatest conceit - that pregnancy is not a health issue and women's lives are expendable - underlies the dual standards of Republican Party pronatalist policy demanding female submission to males who assume the right to hold women hostage to biology.

Michele Swenson: Abortion: Surrogate for Unspoken Issues 2008

The pronatalist image of woman-as-mother is enormously powerful.

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