Let's revisit the childless cat ladies

 

From the Washington Post's Catherine Rampell:

The real reason Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comment is so outrageous
The Republican nominee for vice president says Democrats are ‘anti-child.’ Please.

Quoting liberally:

"[Vice Presidential candidate Just Duncy] Vance, who sometimes supports tax breaks for parents, claimed on Fox News that Harris has called for “an end to the child tax credit.” This is an outright fabrication. Harris has advocated for expanding the program, and she has highlighted its poverty-reducing potential all over the country.

Meanwhile, Republicans’ draconian positions on abortion have, perhaps paradoxically, also made it more difficult for Americans to expand their families when they wish to do so, even when they don’t need IVF or other assisted-fertility treatments.

That’s because obstetricians, fearful of legal liability if they provide the emergency reproductive care their patients might need, have been fleeing red states. As a result, some hospitals have shut down their obstetrics wings entirely. This has made prenatal care and delivery more complicated and more dangerous. Already, states’ antiabortion laws have jeopardized the lives and future fertility of women who have been denied care for ectopic pregnancies and other complications.

At the federal level, Republican lawmakers have also spent much of the past year trying to cut funding for WIC, the long-standing federal program that provides food support to poor pregnant women, new moms, infants and toddlers. In other words, since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022, Republicans have literally schemed to take food away from hungry babies."

So let's do this again.